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Very nice...wrap em up and put them under my tree!

Hey guys, I am thinking about moving my 5g to work and picking up some dwarf puffers. What kinds of fish can I have with them? I read that otos would be good.

Sure...otos, perhaps dwarf corys....mebbe a mystery or nerite snail.

Just what are the dimensions of those things?

So?

Very sweet...I would love to have an owl in my yard....and bats in the summer.

Welcome to the forum!

were did you find sturgeon???? and what variety are they????????? and what are they selling for????

I don't recall what kind they were they are at Golds they are about 4 inches and I think they are 30 bucks

Would have been sterlets.

some of the superpets became pj's as well right?

Long ago...but when the recent (this past year) sale of Superpet, they became PetsMarts.

40,000 gallons each (together, they are the volume of the zoo's hippo tank)? Just what are the dimensions of those things?

Dude, seriously, where I get my fish is none of your business, so please, back off.

I will think about it...unfortunately for you, I enjoy tormenting paranoids.

Welcome to the board and back to the hobby, Roger.

Naa, I have no desire sharing information about the filters I use that are not relevant to this thread.

Makes one wonder if you actually have any others...don't worry, I will not think any less of you if you do not.

t it is not a P. dolloi, and more then likely not a P. annectens sp.,

I highly doubt that....so, why so terrified of disclosing where you got the fish, hmmm?

The other two are not pertinent to this thread's topic.

Who cares...name them anyway.

instead I smash it to bits (like everything else that pisses me off) and throw it in the dumpster.

That include people?

then kudos to you, you're a better fish keeper than me.

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You've got ME wondering what kind of lung fish you have now! :smokey:

...and where it was abducted from, non?

Well, if the lung came from any other shop in Calgary, it came from one local wholesaler, or one of two Florida 'farms'....and was either a P. annectans or P. dolloi (in the case of a Petland specimen or two and a couple that the very defunct Big Al's had before they imploded.).

Do the papers have an answer that is quicker to type then the answer in your head that would take you a long time to type out?

Not really, no.

Or do you just not know? If you don't know, it's ok, I will not think any less of you.

Mighty big of you, but I know just fine, thanks.

Actually, if you tell me who had what and when, I'll easily be able to pick it out from them.

I am curious as to why you cannot disclose where you got yours from, actually...seems a bit cloak and dagger.

Suffice it to say that almost all the lungs that have been in area shops over the past three years have been dolloi, with the exception of two batches of two Protopterus annectans annectans each that Gold had in, two P. annectans sp. (unsure of the subspecies) that were in Pisces about 22 months ago(and a number of Lepidosiren that have been scattered amongst Calgary stores). As far as I am aware, not one Protopterus aethiopicus aethiopicus (or P. a. congicus or P. a. mesmaekersi for that matter) has been in any Alberta store in the past 5 years.

As far as canisters go, there are only three readily availible brands that exist in my world and they are neither Penn plax or Fluval.

Eheim, I am sure, but I am curious as to the other two...surely not Rena?

Nothing scientific in regard to their identification? It doesn't have to be easy, just reliable.

I can't tell you where I got it, but if you tell me who had what and when I can pick it out of those.

Nothing that I can type out quickly...I will see if I can scan a the pertinants of a couple of taxonomic papers on the subject.

Is there some reason you focus on the 700's? What about the 1500's? I'm looking at moving away from fluval canisters and I've noticed the penn-plax are priced lower than a comparably sized Fluval.

Just because that was one of his two options (Cascade 700 vs. AC70), and it fits his tank size well...I love the Cascade 1000, 1200, and 1500 equally (and wish that they made a Cascade 2000...something rated for 250+ gallons). That being said, I do like the Fluval FX5...its the smaller Fluvals that I do not care for.

Robert and Barbara Brissette own Petland Canada which includes all the Petlands this side of BC, they live in Manitoba.

Incorrect, they own the name...all the prairie Petlands (again, save Lerhbridge and Medicine Hat) are owned by a single franchisee...Petland Calgary (aka Petland Superstores)...they pay franchise fees and a percentage to the Canadian office, but that is it.

The only controlling percentage Hagen has in Petland Alberta is their yet-to-be-paid-for products.

Not controlling, but they own a hefty percentage, from leverage the franchisee needed for expansion.

If Hagen had as much control as the rumors have lead you to believe, Cichlid would not have grown as big as they have since taking on Petland as an account.

1) Not rumours...I play cards with Dieter; 2) They do not want that much control...stores that sell only one brand do poorly.

PJ's Pet Centres is a privately own company; by (P)eter Marrol with 19 Stores across Canada. They have a sister company called Pets Unlimited. The SuperPet stores were owned by the other half of PJ's, (J)ohn Jewls and are now Petsmarts. Superpet is not and never has been PJ's, but is a company created by John Jewls after splitting from the PJ's.

Funny...even the trade pubs state that Hagen owned Superpet...I guess that they have no idea what they are talking about....good thing you do.

As much as don't like Hagen products, they are superior to PennPlax.

You must not have much volume experience with both, then...the Cascades are far better physical quality (over the Fluval '04 and '05 series...the '02 and '03 were actually pretty good) and much easier to use. I am constantly ordering parts for the newer Fluval canisters, particularly handles, impeller covers, impeller shafts and impellers.

The Aquaclear on the other hang is Hagens biggest blunder, in that it works so well, that making models obsolete every 5 years like the Fluval line can't be done, because everyone that has ever used one knows that it really can't be improved on and still maintain the cheap price.

So I give :thumbs: for the Aquaclear, I suggest not using it the way Hagen says to use it.

I like Aquaclears...love them even....but they are generally inferior to canisters for planted tanks.

Yeah, they all look pretty much the same, to me, at that age, but thanks anyway. I was hoping for a scale count or something like that.

There are measurements, but nothing done easily with a live specimen. If you can remember where and when you got him, it could also help, as most of the proptopterus that have come into Alberta over the past 3 years have been P. dolloi and P. annectans....and I just happen to be familiar with who had what when.

Hey, I was wondering, do you have a M.Sc. or a Ph.D.? And where did you get it? UofV, UBC, UoG or SFU?

M.Sc. and UC.

Not much of a photo, I am afraid, so identification is more than a bit iffy....looks like a P. dolloi to me from what I can see. How big is it and whereabouts did you get it (and when)?

Welcome to the board...glad to have you here. :welcome:

PJ's and superpet are the ones that have the same ownership group.

As per my previous post, this is the case no longer, as Superpet was sold to PetsMart.

Nope, All the Petlands this side of BC are owned by a dude in Manitoba and the PJ's are own by two dudes in Toronto who's names happen to be Peter and John.

Incorrect. All of the Petlands in Alberta (save Lethbridge and Medicine Hat), Saskatchewan and Manitoba, as well as a couple in BC, are owned by Petland Superstores, which is based in Calgary, and has Bob Doerkson at its head (Hagen has a percentage ownership in the chain as well). I believe that Hagen now has a controlling percentage in PJ's, which was a part of the PJ's/Superpet chain, the latter half of which was sold by Hagen to Petsmart earlier this year (Pets Unlimited on the East coast is also mixed into this group of shops, but has been retained).