Hello

[Waterpond]

Originally Posted by Chaloupa

Where are you located?

Just outside of Sarnia, ontario.

Thanks for the welcomes. I don't know if you gays are like me and love to see pics, but i will get some posted soon.

[Delphinus]

Originally Posted by Waterpond

Just outside of Sarnia, ontario.

Sweet - you are right across the river (well.. I guess, "across the river and a slight drive down to Romulus") from Dick Perrin's operation "Tropicorium". Have you ever been? If not - check it out some weekend when you have a few hours to make the drive, it's well worth seeing. At least it was when I first saw it, although I guess that was a long time ago now.

Welcome to Canreef btw

[Waterpond]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

Sweet - you are right across the river (well.. I guess, "across the river and a slight drive down to Romulus") from Dick Perrin's operation "Tropicorium". Have you ever been? If not - check it out some weekend when you have a few hours to make the drive, it's well worth seeing. At least it was when I first saw it, although I guess that was a long time ago now.

Welcome to Canreef btw

That sounds really interesting, do you have any info on it, what exactly is it?

[Delphinus]

Basically a coral wholesaler / coral propagator. The storefront is really just a gigantic greenhouse on his residence. He's been around forever, so he's sort of in the same category as folks like Julian Sprung, Anthony Calfo, etc.

Basically think of it as "The Mother Of All LFS's" - greenhouse after greenhouse with tank after tank full of stuff to buy.

Problem is as Canadians we can't really legally buy from him (and carry the stuff over the border). But, it's still neat to see. I'm sure that folks probably do buy the occasional thing from him and drive back, but, I've never tried this so do check into it before trying it yourself. Fish, and soft corals are typically not CITES protected so there shouldn't be an issue bringing any of those across, but live rock, stony corals and clams you should technically have a CITES import permit. Like I said though I haven't tried it, there might be others in your area who have though and could advise you better than I could.

Like I said though, if nothing else it's worth going there just to see such a large scale operation. It's jaw dropping and will likely give you tonnes of ideas to try for the hobby. Plus you can get books and dry goods and stuff.

[Delphinus]

Guess I should include their website - www.tropicorium.com - it's not the best designed site but the pictures should give you sort of an idea what they're all about

[Chaloupa]

there are also TONS of SW people in Ontario (Ok a bit of a broad statement as Ontario is fairly large......) and I have purchased many corals from different people in Ontario....too bad you weren't here (or closer) and I could frag a frogspawn for ya.

[Mik_101]

Hey welcome to canreef.

First of all.Rely nice and clean set up
secondly. Any plans on upgrading to a larger system?