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OK. Check to see if they have Tetra Safe Start. Tetra recently bought out Marineland which is when Dr. Tim left Marineland and formed his own company. Anyhow.. Tetra supposedly used the original Bio-Spira formula, which Dr. Tim also invented, and repackaged it as Tetra Safe Start. I personally do not like Tetra as a company so I do not endorse their products very often (although a few of them are OK) but if you can’t find Dr. Tim’s One And Only, then the Safe Start may work… if Tetra didn’t screw it up too badly from the original Bio-Spira formula. I don’t see either product on BigAlsOnline.com so I’m not sure if the .ca will have them either.
In the fish hobby, you might have to change your position on ordering online. You are cutting yourself out of some very reputable companies and products.. unless your local store will order things that you want. That’s the good thing about locally owned stores… if you talk to the Manager, they might just order the products you want/need. Considering your online options, any local store would be foolish to not do this for their customers… or if you live close enough to the States and Canada doesn’t allow importing of these products, then maybe you could become an unofficial smuggler of Dr. Tim’s One And Only product line for you local store. It sounds like you could make a hefty profit considering the exchange rates and the VAT’s added on up there.
If your aversion to online shopping is for security reasons, you could set up a PayPal account so you never have to give out your own bank account numbers. PayPal can be set up to debit your checking account, a savings account or a credit card so you don’t even need a credit card to shop online with sites that accept PayPal… most do.
Lenny Vasbinder Fish Blog - http://GoldLenny.blogspot.com (Links to any articles referenced in above reply are listed on the right side, alphabetically under Labels and also under Archives by Year, Month)

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