http/www.aquarticles.com/articles/travel...folk_VAS_I.html
a link to pet stores in vancouver, I tend to go to a few of them for differnt things.
I like Pet Boutique in north vancouver for good cheap healthy stem plants (3 nice big clumps usually about 10 to 15 strands per clump for $15).
Rain forest pet spectrum on hastings for shrimp and plants, he has lots of nice cherries and crystal reds and keeps his plant tanks nice and clean, his plants tend to be on the pricy side, but has nice selection at times and as I said they are clean.
King Ed pets on kingsway burnaby newwestish border area of kingsway, they have SO MUCH stuff there, and tanks etc are dirt cheap. I have seen 30x30x24 deep cubes for 149 and 72 gallon bowfronts for 199 etc. They also have lots of plants and tons of different fish and a few nice show tanks for plants. But they are not the cleanest, they seem to go off the it will sell fast before it dies end of things. I keep my eye on them for plants and shrimp and get em as they come in and are fresh hehe.
Big Als I go to at times mainly to take my kid to see the sharks in there 2000G tank. They also have some tropica plants and a few tanks of random plants. And nice stock of supplies, not the cheapest though.
Aquariums West on burrard is also very nice and clean with nice plants.
There are a few on that list I linked that suck like Petcetera, and the noahs in north van is awful, its a algae pit on everything in there tanks.