Hello from Toronto, Canada

[Kyl]

Hello fellow Canuck. You're in one of the best provinces for reefing up North, lots of good vendors around TO.

 

[JoshH]

@JoshH look one of your peeps!

Another Canadian Eh? Something I'm seeing more and more lately which is fantastic! Welcome @Sordfish to R2R! I hope you enjoy the vast wealth of information here and you share your new build with us in the members tanks forum. Also feel free to ask any questions you might have in the appropriate forum as well. If you have a question I might suggest using the search function on the home page first. Odds are if you have a question it has been asked 100 times before

 

[Sordfish]

Hey! We're excited to see your tank pics!

I’ll be posting them shortly.

 

[Sordfish]

Toronto! Welcome to r2r...I love the St. Lawrence Market.

Me too. Though it’s gotten a tad expensive lately.

 

[Sordfish]

Welcome to R2R and please send down some cool air ;Hilarious

I’d love to but it’s been in the 90s even up here lately

 

[Sordfish]

Hello fellow Canuck. You're in one of the best provinces for reefing up North, lots of good vendors around TO.

Agreed. I consider myself very lucky. We can get almost anything locally, typically from multiple vendors. I think part of the reason we have such a great selection of lfs in the area is that online trade of live stock is not that prevalent in Canada. Though I have to admit I am still suffering from sticker price shock when it comes to saltwater tanks - and I haven’t even bought livestock yet. Plants are sooooo much cheaper than corals and you can by entire schools of freshwater fish for the cost of one marine counterpart.

 

[Gatling]

Hi everyone. I took the welcome message’s advice and created this thread to introduce myself. I have been doing planted tanks for several years now and finally got the bug to do a saltwater tank. Since November I have been collecting bits and pieces to set one up. As I was almost ready in June, all my freshwater fish died due to a CO2 tank valve malfunction- I woke up Father’s Day to a tank full of dead fish. I paused for couple of months to rethink what to do, and decided to push on. I’ll create a journal to track my progress and get everyone’s inputs. Look forward to sharing my progress.

Hello from Toronto! Great to see another local member

 

[Tiger Brown]

Glad you’re with us, welcome!!!

 

[W1ngz]

Montreal is checking in too!
Welcome.

 

[Sordfish]

Another Canadian Eh? Something I'm seeing more and more lately which is fantastic! Welcome @Sordfish to R2R! I hope you enjoy the vast wealth of information here and you share your new build with us in the members tanks forum. Also feel free to ask any questions you might have in the appropriate forum as well. If you have a question I might suggest using the search function on the home page first. Odds are if you have a question it has been asked 100 times before

Thanks. I look forward to learning from the forum and the forum members.

 

[Sordfish]

Hello from Toronto! Great to see another local member

Hello. Cool to see so many active Canadians on here.

 

[Blitheran]

Welcome friendly!!

 

[Sako338]

Welcome, we’re glad you are here!

 

[Kyl]

Agreed. I consider myself very lucky. We can get almost anything locally, typically from multiple vendors. I think part of the reason we have such a great selection of lfs in the area is that online trade of live stock is not that prevalent in Canada. Though I have to admit I am still suffering from sticker price shock when it comes to saltwater tanks - and I haven’t even bought livestock yet. Plants are sooooo much cheaper than corals and you can by entire schools of freshwater fish for the cost of one marine counterpart.

Just some advice, but your market has so many local frag sellers that you won't ever have to touch a LFS / online vendor and pay retail, aside from some imported LPS that can't be fragged or crazy SPS. There are a couple facebook groups and one external forum that's specifically for the GTA.

Some don't like that but the hobby is expensive enough, especially when you're new.

 

[Sordfish]

Montreal is checking in too!
Welcome.

Hello. Love Montreal. We take an annual weekend family vacation there every summer. In fact I bought the tank and the stand I am setting up from a Montreal LFS. Though it was meant for freshwater I am repurposing it as a saltwater tank by adding an HOB overflow.

 

[W1ngz]

Hello. Love Montreal. We take an annual weekend family vacation there every summer. In fact I bought the tank and the stand I am setting up from a Montreal LFS. Though it was meant for freshwater I am repurposing it as a saltwater tank by adding an HOB overflow.

Nice! Which store? Next time you're down you should check out Raging Reef, if you haven't already. You're sure to get a good dose of sticker shock there, but then again he deals largely in high-end and harder to find stuff mostly.

 

[Sordfish]

Just some advice, but your market has so many local frag sellers that you won't ever have to touch a LFS / online vendor and pay retail, aside from some imported LPS that can't be fragged or crazy SPS. There are a couple facebook groups and one external forum that's specifically for the GTA.

Some don't like that but the hobby is expensive enough, especially when you're new.

You are right. I bought a lot of my saltwater equipment used from local classifieds. I also buy plants that way - get access to a wide variety of rare plants through other hobbiests. I have to admit I am a bit hesitant re purchasing livestock that way. I have been reading so much re how problematic hitchhikers are in the marine hobby that it gives me a pause. I’ll have to research this more on the forum and ask e other people’s advice in that before going that route. But I am months away from that. I haven’t yet added water to the tank so I have the cycling wait ahead of me.

 

[Sordfish]

Nice! Which store? Next time you're down you should check out Raging Reef, if you haven't already. You're sure to get a good dose of sticker shock there, but then again he deals largely in high-end and harder to find stuff mostly.

A store called Aquasense Workshop. It is a freshwater store. I’ll check out Raging Reef when I am there next summer.

 

[Kyl]

Dip every frag you buy, and don't hesitate to not buy something if you show up and their tank looks completely awful or pest ridden. Local reputation means a lot in this niche hobby.

 

[ScottR]

Welcome to R2R @Sordfish Feel free to post as many questions as you want here. Lots of helpful people on duty 24/7. We all have lots of questions when we’re just starting to get salty.