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Hey Folks,
New box up top is for ordering online. If you're a long-time customer you know in the past that the website had significant lag on being updated. That's not the case now, and it usually matches our Friday list pretty closely. We've got plenty of customers that used this with no issues. If you're not using it now you can get a log-in from your rep and get started. You'll notice that the pics are stock images, so you'll still want to check out the Friday and Monday emails for pics of the actual fish here right now.
Fantastic week for incoming. Nigeria is in stock here for the first time in almost two years. Routing got to be real challenging. And freight got more expensive in the last two years so these are not as cheap as last time, but there are some really cool fish on this shipment.
I have Phractolaemus in stock for just the second time. Common name of blood fish, or hingemouth, both of which are stupid, but this fish isn't going to be sold because of some catchy name I make up. They'll sell because they're super uncommon in the trade, unlike anything else in the world, and a lot of you are fish geeks that need these in your life. They get up to 10", and they're roughly half that size now. Not a lot of info on their natural history, but they do breath air, live in still or slow flowing water, and eat small inverts. I'd assume that they'll eat small fish in the aquarium.
I could fill my whole intro with fun Nigeria stuff but I'll leave the rest for the categories below. So my next fish is a Singapore import. I have scarlet badis in stock for the first time in ages. The best nano fish that exists, they're one of the few nano fish that isn't a tiny rasbora or tetra. I have nothing against schooling fish, but these badis are a lot more personable. They're not cichlids and not that closely related to cichlids but they do have similarities in behavior (meaning they're less boring than rasboras). They'll chase each other around (rarely with damage) and show off to each other if you give them a bunch of hiding spots. Traditionally a live-food only kind of fish, you have great options now like Sera micro-pellets which make them way easier to keep.
Tadpoles are in stock and they don't have a category below so I'm mentioning them here. These are bullfrog tadpoles, that are pretty easy to maintain. They're super popular, big, and as sturdy as tadpoles get. In the wild they'd be overwintering and turning into frogs next year but in an aquarium they're likely to grow legs and leave soon. I'm also using this as an opportunity to discuss regulations and responsibility. Please check your state laws before ordering these. This is a fun one to figure out where it's restricted. Georgia restricts sales of native species so I'm pretty sure they're off limits there. California prohibits this as an invasive species. Other states may allow trade (or restrict trade) based on their reptile and amphibian laws, which you might not know about if your a fish store. Some states require a health certificate for these to enter their states, which I seriously doubt has ever been enforced but is almost certainly on the books. Please make sure you are familiar with your state laws before buying these. It's nearly impossible for me to know every state's laws regarding bullfrogs. And if we send these to a state where they are restricted that is a federal Lacey Act violation. This is also a lengthy answer as to why we don't sell crayfish right now. Our software doesn't accurately police these sales, and my sales reps make mistakes. Not willing to risk a potential $10,000 fine over accidentally shipping a few $1 crayfish.
Please give a call if you have any questions.
Thanks,
Joe Hiduke
Nautilus |
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Blood Fish or Hingemouth
Phractolaemus ansorgii
By far the most turd-like fish you will ever see. |
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| Scarlet Badis |
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| Bullfrog Tadpoles |
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Got a couple new tetras from Nigeria. 'Blue Diamond Congos' are a Congo tetra relative, and they're not actually from the Congo River or either country with Congo in the name, but that's about the only African tetra that most people know. They're are shaped like a Congo, but they're a lot smaller with a very different color scheme. Males get a crazy iridescent blue down the back when they settle in, and I'm already seeing that in quite a few of them. These fish are super active and they've been incredibly hardy when I've had them in the past.
Got a couple of very, very toothy tetra relatives in from Nigeria too. Odoe pikes are super impressive. They're also super limited. These fish can get 2' long so not a great choice for most tanks, but a great addition to a big predatory tank. They are pretty shy, especially at this size, and will acclimate best if you toss some floating plants over them. Also got in Phago scissor-mouth tetras. I just made up that name but it's a pretty accurate common name for a fish that eats chunks of fins from other fish. Way smaller than the pikes with a max size a bit over 6", but way more vicious too, and almost certainly needs to be in a species tank. These are more likely to eat their tankmates (bit by bit) than Exodons.
This week's Colombia shipment is all re-stock and it includes some really nice fish. I have pink-tail Chalceus and I expect them to sell out in a hurry this week. Also have more emperor blue hooks, standard red hooks, and flagtail Prochs. Plenty of small tetras in this shipment too. I have more ruby tetras and gold tetras, and I still have lots of green neons. Also have quite a few red phantoms that are very small but showing decent color.
Florida fish are getting a little mixy in size with our cold weather but I still have lots of big fish. Orange von rios are one type that got a lot bigger this week. I don't know if they'll stay this big all week but they super nice today. Red-eyes are still great size. A few other Florida fish that stand out include x-rays (on special), huge jumbo neons, pastel gold neons, longfin blushers, gold pristellas, and glowlights. Serpaes got real small this week, skip them right now.
No Indo shipment this week but I still have a lot of far-east tetras. Black phantoms and rosy tetras both look great. Black phantoms are a little smaller than usual, rosy tetras are a lot bigger than usual, and both of them are exceptional. Some other far-east farm fish that stand out include glass bloodfins, black emperors, and penguins. Ember tetras and green fire tetras are a little small but otherwise look good. |
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Blue Diamond 'Congo' (not Congo) Tetras
Maybe go with African diamond tetra if you want to be more accurate? |
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| African Odoe Pike |
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| Phago Scissor-Mouth Tetra |
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Emperor Blue Hook
These are already showing nice orange cheeks. This'll be a pumpkinhead blue hook soon. |
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Red Hook
They're always on my list as large, but this is the largest set I've seen in a while. |
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| Orange Von Rios |
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| Red-Eyes |
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| Jumbo Neons |
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| Nicest rosy tetras I've seen in years. |
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Red glass barbs got even bigger and brighter this week. Almost all males and they look fantastic. Medium and large tiger barbs continue to be well worth the higher prices (meaning the regulars are pretty small right now). Giant danios, pearl danios, gold zebras, and brilliant rasboras are all pretty good size. Black ruby barbs got a fair bit smaller but you can still easily tell that they're black rubies, not tiger barbs.
Albino tiger barbs got a little bigger. They're really nice for imports, and no smaller than the regular sized Florida tiger barbs. Green tiger barbs are a little smaller, while platinum greens are a lot bigger. Gold neon rosy barbs are gorgeous, big and bright. Red pandas are on the brink of coloring up.
Skip the cherry barbs and the white clouds. Cherry barbs are tiny and not sellable, white clouds are a little bigger, but you should get the gold white clouds instead as they are really nice. |
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| Red Glass Barbs |
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| Pearl Danios |
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| Red Panda Barbs |
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Got in a new set of pineapple swords. Still good size, bright and plenty of males on these Florida bred fish. Velvet wags are imports today, and they are not velvety at all. And also very short males. Neon swords are imports too but they aren't all females. Color is pretty good on these.
Vampire and firecracker swords both came in from Hong Kong this week. These are some of the biggest swords here, especially the firecrackers. The firecrackers are deep deep red, like an old time Florida velvet. They have a mutation like rosefin in bettas where the fin rays branch at the tips. Vampire swords aren't quite as red but they are still good size and nice.
Some platies that look good include red tigers, redtail crystals (these are small but bright), big gold twin-bars, blue mickeys, and sunset mickeys.
Gupplies that stand out include red dragon dumbos, pigeonbloods, turquoise blue-tails, lemons, and midnights. And I'll have a lot more Monday. |
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| Pineapple Swords |
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| Firecracker Sword |
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| Vampire Sword |
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I have new pearlscale angels this week. I have gold pearls, smokey pearls, and koi pearlscale in a couple sizes. The koi pearls aren't exactly high-orange koi, but they're the only koi pearlscales around. They are really nice, just less bright than the non-pearl koi angels. Get the mediums, they're a lot bigger than the selects. Some of the standard angels that look good include the medium koi and black angels that are both on special as well as the pandas. Probably getting more large blacks over the weekend.
If you need big fish I have two jumbo red devils, one huge sagittae, a couple big trimacs, and some jumbo threadfin heckeli. If you need fish that will get big I have black umbees on sale, and plenty of Petenia snook cichlids.
Came up with a few new carpintis cichlids. Or if you prefer EB carpintis. With a few exceptions just about all the Hericthys in Florida are some kind of Texas/carpintis cross that may or may not involve 'Escondido carpintis' which may or may not even be a real locale. That's a rambling way of saying your one or two purist customers may hate these but everyone else that wants pretty fish is going to love these. They're very good size and super bright. These are one of the smaller Centrals, rarely much bigger than 8".
Sold a ton of the medium electric blue acaras this week, and I restocked last night. If you didn't get them this week try again. They did get smaller, or at least some of them did. The smaller ones in the tank would be summertime regulars but it's not summertime. And even the small ones are gorgeous.
Some other Florida fish that look good include regular and 5" heckeli, medium balzanis, 4" red devils, managuense, spectabilis, and zonatus.
Apisto pandurini that came in from Indo last week are looking pretty solid now. They are very small but getting some color. Import flowerhorns are crazy bright (and crazy). Lemon oscars are really bright too. |
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Koi Pearlscale
This is one of the bigger select size. The mediums are bigger but a lot more expensive. |
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| Gold Pearlscale |
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Albino Pearlscales
These are Indo imports, the other pearlscales are Florida fish. |
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Jumbo Red Devil
I have two of these. It's a wysiwyg 50/50 chance. |
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| Carpintis Cichlid |
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| EB Acara Md |
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| Medium Balzani |
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| Lemon Oscars |
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| Flowerhorn |
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| Apisto pandurini |
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Five-star general jewels are in from Nigeria. This is one of the meanest fish ever. They get a lot bigger than standard jewels, 8"+, and they make them look peaceful. These are wild fish and you'll notice in the pic below that the fins are pretty frayed. Other than rough fins they're in good shape so should be good to go next week.
Got a couple of new Victorian haps this week. Piebald chromogynos are a very unique looking fish. Similar to the OB fish from Malawi, these are patterned with random splotches. Splotches are black on a gray to blue background, with red in the fins. Really neat fish and they're pretty good size. I also have crimson tides in stock this week. This is a small silver fish that will look awesome once they color up. Like most Vics, they color up small so I expect to send pics of the biggest male with good color in another week. I think the piebald haps are a lot neater but the crimson tides have a great name and always sell well.
I have a couple of new mbunas too. I'm back in stock with Labeotropheus fueleborni at a real good size. These marmalade cats are already getting splotchy. Ivory Labs are exactly the same as yellow Labs but from a different location and they are white with a pearly sheen instead of yellow. They're small but beautiful. OB zebras are still very nice and they're on special this week. Some other mbunas that look good include cobalts, snow white socos, msobos, chipokaes, and gold Tropheops.
OB comps are in this week. They look pretty crappy as you can see in the pic below. But they're fantastic when they get some size, showing a brightly colored OB pattern in a shape/size not often seen. Very cool fish that are just starting to turn orange. Medium blue dolphin moori came in with nice color. Still have one or two big rostratus crosses.
Finally I have one new peacock. The turkis peacock is an aquarium strain with a dumb name and no color yet but apparently this fish popular with the YouTube fish people. So they got that going for them. They will color up nicely, mostly blue with some red on the side. |
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Five-Star General Jewel
If they could they would kill you, your family, and everyone you love. |
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| Piebald Chromogynos |
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| Crimson Tide Haps |
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| Ivory labs are beautiful but very small. |
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| Marmalade Cat OB Fueleboerni |
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| OB Zebras |
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| Md Moori |
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| OB Comps |
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| Turkis Peacock |
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Got a few new catfish from Nigeria. Microsynodontis batesi are my favorite. Not sure why this fish has never caught on in the trade. They are small and peaceful, work in a community tank, and they're not very expensive. You should probably call them African dwarf BB cats or something like that if you want to sell them.
Giraffe cats are not small, and they still have a lot of growing to do. These fish can get at least 20". They're also not fun to get stuck by, so watch your hands when you're moving them. Not aggressive but they are big enough that it limits potential tankmates (and potential buyers).
Debauwi cats are a little like glass cats but less transparent and more interesting. They are another schooling species but a fair bit more active than glass cats. They stay pretty small, around 3", and work with with other peaceful species.
Plenty of fancy plecos in from Colombia, although it's the same types you see every week. I have nice Colombian zebras and snowballs, plenty of bright green phantoms, a few green phantoms, small royal plecos, and big bushynose.
For import cories, the new arcuatus and metae look pretty good, and I have arcuatus from last week that are still holding up well. For spotted cories, you're most likely to get punctatus filled.
A few other South American imports that stand out include banjo cats, nice size striped raphaels, spotted raphaels, four-line pims, and a limited number of royal farlowellas.
Got in a handful of new Florida fish this week. I have lemondrop bushynose in stock. These things look pretty much like a brown bushynose with slightly yellower spots. But they are way bigger than the standard bushynose. They're worth the price just for the size. Also restocked on some super nice super reds. Also good size, they're on the list as small or regular but this set is getting close to 2" as opposed to the <1" standard bushynose size. Some other Florida fish that look good include my last two Syno angelicus, decorus cats, and longfin green cories.
I have a new loach this week. I have Borneo suckers from China. I've had Borneo suckers every week but these are very different. What I usually get are Gastromyzon loaches from Indonesia. These are Pseudogastromyzon from China, and they have a different look (while still being flat). They're more elongated, with a banded(ish) pattern. Care is about the same but I would expect these to be a little less heat tolerant. |
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| Microsynodontis |
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| Giraffe Cat |
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| Debauwi Cat |
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| Colombian Zebra Pleco |
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| Arcuatus Skunk Cory |
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| Lemondrop Bushynose |
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| 'Borneo Sucker' |
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Every Nigeria shipments has stupid ropefish in it and my shipment this week is no exception. You have a non-zero chance of getting ropefish this week, although it's not a dramatically better chance than weeks were I have no ropefish here. They're touchy and may not be shippable.
I have more African dolphin morymyrids than I've ever seen here. These are always popular. They get big, potentially up to 30". Pretty much like a giant stocky elephant nose but with a smaller schnauzenorgan. Predatory on small fish and likely to pick on passive tankmates, they're a little tricky to house with other fish. Probably work well in the standard pan-Asian restaurant tank with arowanas, blood parrots and flagtail Prochs.
Got in baby whales and round-nose mormyrids, and I'm pretty sure they got put down together. I have a tube full of mormyrids with schnauzenorgan-envy. These are e-nose relatives but smaller, and I think slightly less antisocial.
The last oddball from Nigeria that's a staple item are African butterflies, sometimes referred to as freshwater flying fish. They live at the surface of the water, feeding on insects that drop in the water. They have long fin extensions that are prone to get chewed on so be careful with their tankmates. They jump, and glide a long way, so make sure they have lids on their tanks.
For Florida rainbows, I'm back in stock with parkinsoni and they biggest ones are getting nice orange splotches. Goyder Rivers are big and bright again. Medium boesmanis are probably the best rainbow, but I'm tired of taking their picture every week. Featherfins are the best of the smaller rainbows.
Opaline gouramis are really nice. They're not huge, but they look really good. Golds and blues are both in stock too but not as nice as the opalines. Blue and albino paradise are both Florida fish this week and they are nice. Platinum gouramis are imports but they got a little brighter.
Arowanas are in from Colombia. List 8-9", and that looks to be pretty accurate. The large panda garras are the nicest ones I've seen. Big with clear bands and reddish orange on the fins. Some other odds and ends that look good include tophat blennies, transparent knives, huge royal clown knives, peacock gudgeon gobies, and Asian needle gar. |
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African Lungfish
Their 'legs' always get chewed on but they do grow back. |
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| Dolphin Mormyrid |
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Round-Nose Mormyrid
Serious lack of schnauzenorgan on this guy. |
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| African Butterflies |
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| Tophat Blenny |
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| Opaline Gouramis |
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| Parkinsoni Rainbow |
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| Goyder River Rainbow |
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| Silver Arowana |
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| Panda Garra Lg |
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| Flagfish |
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Shrimp, Snails & Other Inverts
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Patriotic crabs are in stock. From Nigeria, they're probably no more patriotic than any other crab, but they are red white and blue. These are quite bit bigger than the red mangrove crabs, and they pinch a lot harder. Also traded as moon crabs. These are terrestrial, not aquatic. Probably benefit from a bowl of freshwater and saltwater like the coastal hermit crabs (no idea if that's necessary but it might help).
Still have some smaller Borneo panther crabs. These are a fully aquatic species, and even though they're not red white and blue they're probably equally as patriotic as every other crab.
Vampire shrimp came in from Nigeria too. This is a big species, a lot like the bamboo shrimp. They are a filter feeding species so you'll need to give them baby brine, daphnia, or something similar. They're likely eat finely powdered prepared foods, but there's going to be a lot of wasted food settling to the bottom.
Best fancy shrimp in stock this week are the deluxe mix shrimp. Great mix of colors and they're good size. I still have some nice red crystals and red fire shrimp too. |
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Red, White & Blue Patriotic Crabs!
From Nigeria |
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| Vampire Shrimp |
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| Deluxe Mix Shrimp |
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The Saltwater stock-list gets sent out on MONDAY afternoon.
In saltwater, we offer tons of top-of-the-line corals. If you need really nice frags to sell for $10-15, we've got you covered. If you want a $400 show piece unique Australian brain corals, we've got that too. Tons of the coral frags are aquacultured in-house and are named lineage pieces of various SPS and LPS. Import frags that are MADE in-house are also available, and are great options to get slightly bigger pieces that customers want like torches, hammers, blastos, acans, zoas, etc. |
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