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Paws pet food in Haysboro where they are located also has a store on 17th ave and down in High River. Honestly I can see cat and dog items being more profitable than aquarium/ fish items.

I was in Tanks a Lot this morning and she had a poster on the entrance at the bottom of the stairs station that they will close on March 30. Too bad, because they had some of the best fish I have bought.

Looking for Apistogramma cacatuaoides if some are available.

Perhaps this is in response to "whirling disease" making its way into Alberta from Montana. The NDP commrades don't want to be blamed for snakeheads getting into Montana. Only 3 years to go......

I'm surprised petland in shawnessy had any employees willing to help a customer. Worst store in town in my opinion.

Welcome from nearby Okotoks. I am also into planted tanks. How is Lethbridge for fish stores?

Hi folks, I just received a good sized cardamine lyrata and have no idea how to plant it. Do I plant it low around rocks and driftwood or let it reach up to the surface of the water? Its in a 37 gallon tank with red cherry shrimp and platys. I have read that it's a marsh plant so I was thinking it should be low to the substrate. Thanks for any advice.

I was on a well water system before moving to Okotoks and our water was bad for our cichlids and platys. This was near Stettler though so the aquafir will obviously be different. What we did that helped was to run water from our faucet in the sink through one of those Brita filters that screws to the faucet and into a large plastic kids wading pool in the basement. I let that water sit for two days or more with an air stone bubbling in it. It was my theory that this would help get rid of unwanted dissolved gases.

I have 8 Bolivian Rams in my 90 gallon and they are as peaceful as guppies. In fact they ignore the red cherry shrimp too.

I keep Endlers and Cory catfish with my shrimp in my 20 and 19 gallon tanks. I have a 90gallon with Bolivian Rams and cherry reds shrimp living together, although I don't recommend trying this. I only have this mix because the tank has a heavy carpet of plants the shrimp hide in.

This morning I discovered a pair of my rams had mated and laid eggs on a flat rock on the bottom of my aquarium. The tank is a heavily planted 77 gallon setup with 5 rams, countless otocinclus, cherry shrimp and 4 BN pleco females. So far the pair have kept anything that wanders to close away from the eggs. Should I be worried about the plecos?

I'm running an aquaclear 110, will this pose a threat to newly hatched babies or do they stay near the parents on the bottom?

That looks real cool. Would look good with angel fish and tall Val growing in the back.

It's hard to find something that RCS don't like. I have a colony in with 5 Bolivian rams and the colony is actually getting bigger.

They will love to pick food off the Marino balls.

I don't have pressurized CO2 on my 10g. I just do the excel. I have a Marimo ball in it and I don't have a heater, but this room is always hot and the temperature of the water is almost always 22 degrees. I don't know much about carpeting with moss, sorry.

I have a 10 g in my home office that is similar to your description. I used Fluval shrimp stratum as substrate. Planted dwrf a hairgrass and tennelus in it and after 5 months it is completely carpeted beautifully. I have a small stick in there with Christmas moss on top to look like a tree. It houses countless cherry shrimp, 3 otos and 2 endlers.

I have 2x 14 watt CFL bulbs for light, use a fluval U2 for a filter. I dose excel about one cap every 3rd day.

I've got 5 Bolivian rams in a48" with 5 BN plecos, 10 otos, 10 ember tetras and countless cherry shrimp.

I have a Fluval C3 HOB for a 20 gallon planted and I love it. It is a remake of traditional HOB style filters with extra space to put in extra media. On a 33 gallon I'm using a Marineland c-130 and its quiet but a real pain to get it primed after servicing. I have a aquaclear 110 and a Fluval U4 in a 77 gallon. The aquaclear 110 is fantastic but a tad noisy, while the U4 is silent. The U4 is my favourite of all my filters, as it has several outlet settings such as a jet stream or spray bar, and it is low hassle when it comes to maintenance. The drawback is that it is internal and I have to hide it behind a giant sword plant.

I have a 30 gallon sitting on an ikea desk and a 10 gallon on an Ikea telephone table. Should be ok to place yours on a sturdy Ikea desk/table.

What kind of fish do you have at the moment? I find it hard to keep just one kind and have now expanded to 5 tanks. Good luck.

Like the title says, I need a canister for a heavily planted tank about 80 gallons. I have a large aqua clear 110 and a fluval C3 cycling it for 4 weeks now. I have decided to go with a canister, but all I have ever owned are Fluvals canisters and would like other people's input on canisters. Will be heavily planted with bolivian rams and BN plecos populating it. Thanks in advance.

How thick does the ice get in the winter? Do you use a heater for the winter months?

I bought a moss ball that brought unwanted pests recently too. I put the moss ball in a 10 gallon iwagumi with only cherry shrimps three otocinclus and a hairgrass carpet. Two days later, I had planaria like mad. I put in 4 endlers and they decimated the planaria in a week.

Very good looking. The shrimp tubes set up in that manner with the bright green plants behind remind me of a set of cabins near Revelstoke.

I go to Riverfront, Tanks-A-Lot, and Pisces for fish. Tanks a Lot has fantastic prices and very knowledgeable employees.

I am looking for 4 to 6 Apistogramma Cacatuoides. Just curious if you have any in stock or will be getting some in. Thanks.