Aquarium stores in Calgary?

[Sarabelam]

I use Pisces mostly these days. I appreciate knowing they will be open when I go. Staff are generally quite helpful, but definitely not all of them.

[Skimmer Juice]

Golds has a nice assortment of corals when I was in , I believe Dennis is growing out his own stuff now had a bunch of Hydras hooked up . Seen lots of zoas , some nice chalice corals . And his fish are always top notch , he had pearly Jawfish for $20 pretty cheap .
Wais is the best place by far in the city atm he gets all the new equipment / dry goods and a crazy amount of corals and you can find weird stuff there sometimes like bongo shrimp , dragon eels . Dont really do oceans anymore as he doesnt have the salt I need or any of the addatives and fish selection / corals are pretty basic IMO and Im only looking for cool rare things at this point.
Sucks Concepts Closed again . Dont buy livestock from pisces at all just get food and salt from them .
So pretty much Gold's and Wai's are my only stores for livestock

[Layottb]

Originally Posted by Skimmer Juice

Golds has a nice assortment of corals when I was in , I believe Dennis is growing out his own stuff now had a bunch of Hydras hooked up . Seen lots of zoas , some nice chalice corals . And his fish are always top notch , he had pearly Jawfish for $20 pretty cheap .
Wais is the best place by far in the city atm he gets all the new equipment / dry goods and a crazy amount of corals and you can find weird stuff there sometimes like bongo shrimp , dragon eels . Dont really do oceans anymore as he doesnt have the salt I need or any of the addatives and fish selection / corals are pretty basic IMO and Im only looking for cool rare things at this point.
Sucks Concepts Closed again . Dont buy livestock from pisces at all just get food and salt from them .
So pretty much Gold's and Wai's are my only stores for livestock

Thank-you for the advice! I take it you've had bad luck with Livestock from Pisces? Unhealthy fish, or high prices?? Golds and Wai's for Livestock, eh? That's good to know, thank-you!

[Skimmer Juice]

Originally Posted by Layottb

Thank-you for the advice! I take it you've had bad luck with Livestock from Pisces? Unhealthy fish, or high prices?? Golds and Wai's for Livestock, eh? That's good to know, thank-you!

More to due to poor selection coral wise , and fish I dont risk getting from there unless I have a qt running , as all those tanks are connected so if 1 fish has sickness then its through most of the tanks . Price is never my reason I dont mind paying for a fish thats taken better care of at the lfs , thats why I like golds for fish he treats fish when sick and wont sell if you are not fit or the fish is not %100 .

[Layottb]

Thank-you for the insight! It's much appreciated!

[hfp75]

Riverfront is technically gone but when he was shut down he went and worked at Concepts for a while. When Concepts stopped carrying livestock the Riverfront guy left and started a new store downtown somewhere. Call concepts and ask the name / location. I went and saw his store and its small and I was taken back by the prices - not cheap.

[Skimmer Juice]

Its called Fin Gallery . Went to check it out , seen who was running it and will never be back .

[Layottb]

Originally Posted by Sarabelam

I use Pisces mostly these days. I appreciate knowing they will be open when I go. Staff are generally quite helpful, but definitely not all of them.

Thanks for your reply! I agree, in that it seems I won't have to worry much about Pisces being closed on any given day or a random trip to the city. How's you're luck been with Livestock then? Just asking, based off the other advice to get livestock from Golds or Wai's.