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Hey Folks,
Crazy amount of cool new fish in here from Colombia this week, and I still have some nice Peru fish from last week. Also have shipments in from Singapore, Bangkok, and Sri Lanka, plus a bunch of Florida stuff.
I have some gorgeous red-spot green discus in from Colombia. I got them as Tefes, but I'm guessing it's more accurate to describe these as Tefe-like. Whatever you call them they are big and beautiful. If your experience with discus has been limited to the various tank-raised varieties from Singapore or Bangkok than you'll find these are very different. Wild discus are not shy, and are often begging for food within a week of being here. The best way I can describe it is that wild discus know they're cichlids, tank-raised Marlboro/fuji/pigeon/lemon/penguin whatever discus don't always seem to know that. The wild discus are also a lot less concerned about hardness (although I'd be worried about pitting keeping them in hard water long-term). Most important parameter for them is temperature. Keep them hot and you rarely see health problems.
Peppermint otos are a fish I've never seen before, which doesn't happen very often anymore. They're kinda neat, although the price seems a bit steep for a fish that's kinda neat. Having said that I've already sold about half of them, and only have a couple dozen pieces. I have no idea where the name peppermint oto comes from since they're pretty monochrome. Maybe they taste like peppermint. I did see some Glaser pics that are kinda red-ish with nice pearly blue/white tiny spots. If that's the best they get whoever named these things has less shame than I do with trade names. It's either Parotocinclus or Rhinotocinclus, take your pick. Allegedly R. eppleyi, but the species are all real similar so I'm pretty sure that's just a guess based on distribution. In any case you can treat them like an oto, just a lot smaller and more touchy. Make sure they have lots to graze on right away.
Stargazer cats are my favorite fish on this shipment. Closest I've come to setting up a tank at home in a long time. Been several months since I've had these, which is probably appropriate since sales definitely slowed down after my first couple of shipments. One of the coolest fish we get here, it's kinda like a naked pleco. This group of fish is the sister group to all Loricarids. They have a suckermouth similar to plecos, but they don't have the thick armored scales. These are not Amazon basin fish, they're from run-off fed streams from the Andes. Low enough elevation that they don't need chillers, but they're going to prefer cooler water with lots of current and high oxygen content. Either they're highly variable, mixed species, sexually dimorphic and/or have ontogenetic changes. I have a strongly banded ones and some that barely have any pattern. The bigger ones tend to be more patterned so I'm thinking it might be related to size/maturity. Or maybe not. Classification on this group of fish is a mess, so it's also possible there's multiple species in this set. These guys should do great in a hillstream loach type set-up, with lots of current and structure.
Please see Art Parola's article at Reef Builders regarding the Saving NEMO Act. This impacts you even if you only sell freshwater fish. If something like this passes you can expect something like a 'Saving Rainforests' act that will severely curtail freshwater fish. The current proposal isn't limited to wild-collected fish and corals, it shuts down trade in aquacultured species too. Another attempt by animal rights groups to shut down responsible pet keeping.
Please give a call if you have any questions.
Thanks,
Joe Hiduke
Nautilus |
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| Peppermint Otos |
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| Peppermint otos are really small. |
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| Stargazer Cats! |
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Iguana tetras are in stock for the first time in years. Iguanodectes spilurus (probably), this is a neat fish that isn't commonly available in the trade. They're not a small tetra, getting up to ~4", and they're super active. Not suited for small tanks and definitely not suited for tanks without lids. They'd make a good dither fish mid-sized not too aggressive cichlids. On my list as green laser tetra, also traded as green line lizard tetras.
Still have a bunch of really nice size large bleeding hearts from Peru. Blue tetras that came in last week are outstanding, even brighter today than they were a week ago. Another super active fish, but they won't get as big as the lizard tetras. Green neons and gold tetras both look pretty good. Whatever ruby tetras I have are really, really small. Still have small sabertooth payara, around 2" which is a great size for them to acclimate. Blue hooks look great and they're on sale. Pinktail Chalceus look good too, and I also have red hooks and silver dollars.
Not as much for me to brag about for Florida fish this week. I have plenty but pay attention to my notes because the size is all over the place. I have very limited numbers of large serpaes that aren't on the list. If you order the serpae on the list you're going to get a really small import fish. Look for large serpaes on the new fish list on Monday. These are two to three times the size of the imports I have right now.
Glowlights are still very nice, among the biggest ones I've seen. Albino glowlights are really nice too which I rarely say. X-ray tetras are still big and nice. Pastel gold neon tetras, gold pristellas, and white skirts look pretty good. Colombians, head & tail lights, diamonds and red-eyes are decent, they're not small but not oversized. Skip the von rios, they are really small this week.
Black neons are import far-east fish this week. The size is not bad. Black phantoms, serpaes and longfin serpaes are all pretty small. Emperor tetras and black emperors are very small, but they're less common fish and still selling well. They're holding up fine, just smaller than I'd like. Green fire tetras, ember tetras, and all-male Congos are all nice. |
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| Iguanadectes Green Lizard Tetra |
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| Lg Bleeding Hearts |
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| Lg Serpaes |
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| X-Ray Tetras |
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| Glowlight Tetras |
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| Balloon Red Eyes |
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Got in a handful of espei lambchop rasboras. These are very rasbora het like, but they stay a little smaller and the color is a lot brighter. Still have glowlight danios in stock, but I'm getting low and I expect them to be gone soon. Red panda barbs are still very good size and should color up as soon as they're in your tanks. Tinfoil barbs are coming in great size if you need silver bait fish that get too big for most tanks.
Florida-bred tiger barbs in in short supply right now. I larges are the only size I'm likely to have next week, and they range from medium size to large size. They are all very nice, just not all as big as summertime large barbs. Red glass barbs are still one of the best fish here. Giant danios and pearl danios still look good. Rosy barbs are kinda small and female heavy. Black rubies are smaller than the rosy barbs, and odessas are even smaller than the black rubies. |
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| Choprai |
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| Lambchop Rasboras |
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| Tinfoil Barb |
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| Medium Tiger Barbs |
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Rosy Barbs
They're OK size but very female heavy. |
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Swordtails are in pretty short supply from everywhere. I don't have any Florida swords this week. I do have a few imports. They're all small and the sex ratio range from no males to very few males. Pink comets are the nicest. Red tux are pretty nice but not very deep red. Might have a handful of painted swords. Neons are the biggest and they look pretty good, but again very female heavy.
Some platies that stand out include bumblebees, sunsets, gold mickeys, yellow calicos, dawn and neon coral highfins.
Tricolor dumbo guppies are the best guppies in stock. Great looking fish with big tails. Some other guppies that stand out include turquoise blue-tails, white dumbos, black Endlers, lemons, and koi (red panda type).
Molly sizes are all over the place. The straight-color large sailfins look good, especially the golds and greens, but they have all been very limited. |
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| Tricolor Dumbo Guppies |
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| Sunset Platies |
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I have cupid cichlids in this week. I should say wavrini, although most of you won't care or know the difference. This is an eartheater relative, and pretty laid back fish. B. wavrini is the fish you might have seen pics of that have a really nice pastel sheen. These should be really attractive when they acclimate and get a little more size.
Still have a bunch of the wild rainbow severums from Peru. They get brighter every week. One of the best looking fish here, they are showing a ton of orange on their shoulders and fins and blue in their face. Also have quite a few of the red-striped liberifer severums. They're not real big so not showing much color yet. On the bright side they're on special this week.
Wild oscars are small but look great. Neat pattern on these that looks even better as they grow up.
Florida-bred green terrors are in stock today. They're going to go fast even though they aren't big and they aren't that colorful. But other than convicts and pink convicts there haven't been any cheap cichlids around.
Black rams are on sale this week. They're pricey and they're not exactly black but they should work at the sale price. They're more really dark blue than black but I didn't name this one. And the first ones were a lot closer to black.
Medium koi angels are on sale this week and they look great. A little oversized with lots of orange.
For far-east fish, I got in plenty of balloon rams, electric blue rams, and Bolivian rams. Also have all varieties of oscars in stock today. |
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| Cupid Cichlid |
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| Wild Oscars |
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| Rainbow Severum |
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| Green Terrors |
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Medium Koi Angel
On sale this week. |
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Great week for big OB fish. I have exactly two OB rostratus/red empress and they might be the coolest OB fish I've had here. Color is amazing, and they have crazy black ventrals that I've never seen before.
I have quite a few of a bunch of different types of OB peacocks, haps, and peacockXhaps. I put 'XL peacock' on sale this but aside from the OB redstratus you can take any of the crazy OB stuff at this price. This includes OB red empress, yellow OB peacocks, red-stratus, OB lithobates, and plenty more.
If you want something other than OB I have new medium blue dolphin moori. They're not real big but they color is really good. Still have small venustus, red-fin borleyi, and red empress.
Best options for mbunas this week are marmalade cat fueleborni if you need more OB, pearl zebras, red zebras, mainganos, chipokae, regular and snow white socos, and msobos. |
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| OB Rostratus/Red Empress |
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| Malawi Assorted Peacok/Hap |
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| Asst Malawi Fish |
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| OB Red Empress |
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| Red-Stratus |
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| Medium Blue Dolphin |
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| Chipokae |
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Chameleon whiptails are in stock. These are big very impressive. They get their name honestly; they will go through dramatic color changes, sometimes nearly solid white, sometimes with bands, and sometimes with a reticulated pattern. It's always shades of brown, but with wildly different patterns. A sand substrate is ideal for these as they prefer to bury in substrate. They'll eat blackworms, bloodworms, and other inverts, as well as gel diets. They have a reputation for being touchy but they often do great for months before crashing. With that kind of timeframe I'd suspect nutritional issues so give them a wide variety of foods.
Plenty of Colombian and Peru plecos in stock right now. Blue phantoms have been here several weeks and they get more blue every day. They're on special this week. Also have lots of green phantoms, Colombian snowballs, Colombian zebras, bushynose, L204 flash plecos, Peru mustard spots, Peru Peckoltias, and a few adonis plecos.
I have about a dozen Inca cories Corydoras incolicana. This fish's claim to fame is that it's the first cory to be given a C number. This was C001 before it was formally described. They're very good size with a neat pattern that's a bit different from more common species. They have a very limited distribution and are rarely available, hence the price.
For common cories, last week's punctatus and arcuatus skunk cories are the most likely cories to ship this week.
Banjo cats came in this week. They're all over the place on size, but mostly acceptable. Striped and spotted raphaels both look good too.
Various other import catfish that look good this week include nice size pictus cats, Lima shovelnose, vulture cats, royal farlowellas, Burmese sun cats, and Microsynodontis 'African BB cats'.
Restocked on some Florida Synos this week. Nobody seemed to care when I had pure multis here so instead I have some cheaper hybrid 'jaguar Synos'. These are spotted and very nice. I also have some 3" assorted Synos that are a fantastic value.
Redtail botias are big. They look great and they're on sale. Still have plenty of nice size dojos and small gold dojos. Other loaches in this week includes quite a few Sewellia loaches, a few Borneo suckers, and a few skunk botias. |
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| Chameleon Whiptails |
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| Colombian Snowball |
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| Inca Cory |
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| Punctatus |
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| Pictus |
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| Banjo cats are back in stock. Very mixed size. |
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'African BB Cat'
Microsynodontis batesii |
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| Dojos are big, while gold dojos are not. |
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| Redtail Botia |
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Platinum medakas have been here a few weeks now and they're on sale now. These are a great fish for garden tubs as they're bred to look good from a top view, and they're temperate fish so they'll be OK outside through most of the year.
Florida flagfish are still coming in a little mixed in size, but the mix includes plenty of big fish with color. Another temperate fish, this is a US native killi that can live outdoors in all but the coldest months. That also makes it exactly the kind of fish that we don't want turned lose. Make sure your customers get the message that it's never OK to release non-natives.
Platinum gouramis are on sale this week. This fish was about the same price as blues, opalines and golds a few years ago but everyone in Florida stopped raising them when they got dropped from all the box stores. I've got a mess of imports in stock right now and they look really good. Florida blues and opalines are a little bigger than the platinums. Pearl gouramis are still terrible, you don't want them. Blue paradise got real small, but albinos are still very nice.
Turquoise rainbows are on special. While the medium boesmanis are almost always the best looking rainbow here the turquoise on sale might be the best value this week. Parkinsoni, yellows, kamakas, and Deepwater Creek splendida all look good too.
Various other fish that stand out include Burmese tire-track eels, Asian needle gar, large panda garras, BB gobies, dwarf puffers, archerfish, brown ghost knives and medium black ghost. |
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| Platinum Rice Fish |
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| Platinum Gouramis |
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| Turquoise Rainbows |
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| Lg Panda Garra |
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| Burmese Tire Track Eels |
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| African Lungfish |
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| Archerfish |
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Shrimp, Snails & Other Inverts
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Still getting plenty of mystery snails include blue, ivory, gold, black and a nice assorted.
Plenty of orange rabbit snails today but they are super popular and may run out next week. Should be in good shape on assassin snails.
Shrimp selection is pretty limited but I still have a few red crystal shrimp, nice blue velvets, and limited numbers of jade shrimp and red fire shrimp. |
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| Gold Snails |
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| Blue 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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