coffeebean

looking for somewhere to order supplies online within Canada. any recommendations?

prairielilly

BigAlsOnline.ca is good and will ship within Canada for free for orders over $35 before taxes...however if you need to return something their policies aren't exactly user-friendly so read the fine print on their website.

If you find another one, please let ME know, I'd sure like to know!

coffeebean

thank you. do you know where i cant get some snails? looking for MTS

prairielilly

That one I don't know (not a snail girl...) It will depend on where you are. I haven't had live stock shipped to me thus far, I've been concerned about temperatures (Calgary's pretty cold and everything else seems to arrive frozen solid!) although I'm sure there's ways around that. What I'd suggest is just calling around to every LFS within driving distance and being EXTREMELY specific on the phone, as the clerks are unlikely to know what an 'MTS' or even 'Mayalasian Trumpet Snail' are (at least in my experience) and even if it's labelled as such you can't always trust that.

coffeebean

ya the chick gave me pond snails the last time LOL i took them anyways, i love snails, but i really want MTS. i hear you on the cold. a balmy -31*C here this morning.

i have had most of my plants delivered from this guy www.theplantguy.org

prairielilly

Good to know . I've decided to stick with silk plants for now (want to master keeping fish healthy first...that was going really great until I bought some sick recently...)

I've found the best course of action to avoid the chains for live stock. IMO the mom-and-pop outfits are more likely to know what they're talking about and to offer relatively healthy stock (suffering more due to the economy maybe and so working harder to stay afloat I wonder?)