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Hey Folks,
Not sure how this one is going to turn out. Most of my staff has been sick this week and it looks like I'm coming down with the same thing. Just in time to get on a plane day after tomorrow. And we're moving the office today. So you're getting an abbreviated update today, and one written by someone who's full of cold medicine.
This week's incoming included shipments from Sri Lanka, Singapore, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Indo, and Colombia, plus lots of Florida fish.
Didn't need a ton of cichlids since I got in so much last week but I was clearly short on OB stuff. So I got in OB peacocks, OB haps, and OB pea-haps. They're all listed as asst xl peacock on my list, I think. Whatever you call them, they're all amazing.
Emerald-eye rasboras are in from Indo. Maybe. I couldn't find them, but I'm loopy with cough syrup. And people tell me that they're here. This is one of the coolest nano fish that you can get, especially in bigger than nano tank where you can keep a big school. At first glance they're nothing but silver. But their bright blue/green eye is vibrant. A school of these in dark tank with spot lighting looks amazing.
Please give a call if you have any questions.
Thanks,
Joe Hiduke
Nautilus |
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| Emerald Eye Rasboras |
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A few Florida fish that stand out include more longfin blushing white skirts, x-ray tetras, gold pristellas, albino glowlights, and pastel gold neon tetras.
Bleeding hearts that came in last week look great. They came in as mediums but they're about the same size as the larges from Peru a few weeks earlier.
Far-east rosy tetras might be the best ones I've seen. They're good size with a big banner-like dorsal fin. Wish I had them in a clear glass tank instead of a cloudy acrylic because they look way better in my tanks than they do in my picture below. |
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| X-Rays |
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| Gold Pristellas |
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| Longfin Blushing White Skirts |
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| Medium Bleeding Hearts |
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| Rosy Tetras |
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| Balloon Penguins |
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Rosy barbs are super high male this week. I still have a tank of all-male rosys and you should order that first but if I run out the mixed-sex rosys are nice too. The red-glass are still gorgeous, just about all male. They're big and crazy bright. Zebra danios gold zebras and pearl danios all look good too.
Asian rummynose are fantastic. They're pretty much all silver except a couple are showing red faces which means that the color will pop in your tanks. They look good here but they're never going to fully color with only glass and a standpipe.
I have gold roseline sharks in this week. These are a lot like the emerald-eye rasboras. By that I mean I that I haven't seen them yet. And I feel too crappy to track them down. Ask your rep on Monday, I expect them to be nice, same supplier as the last batch.
Import cherry barbs got a lot bigger this week. They're not big but they're absolutely OK. Not great, not bad, but perfectly acceptable. White clouds are a little small, but they're on sale this week. |
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| Rosy Barbs |
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| Gold Zebra Danios |
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| Brilliant Rasboras |
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| Asian Rummynose |
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| White Clouds |
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| Cherry Barbs |
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Pineapple swords are the best option for getting color, size, and possibly males. Neons are good size too but virtually no males. New firecracker swords and vampire swords aren't exactly the same niche (they're not cheap) but they look great. Deep red with great fins.
Best platies this week are assorted XL. Sunsets, blue mickeys, sunset wags, and dawn platies all look pretty good.
A few guppies that stand out include super gold cobras, punk tux, midnights, and red dragon dumbos. |
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| Firecracker Sword |
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| Sunset Platies |
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Large black angels are in stock, although likely to be limited. Small veils are trickling in as well.
Black rams look great, pretty nice size and good color.
Florida-bred convicts are decent size, pink convicts are big. That's about the extent of cheap Florida cichlids. Should have plenty of EB acaras that look great.
Please buy trimacs. I have plenty of them, and they're on sale.
Wild oscars are doing fantastic. I guess they're not as flashy as a red or red tiger but the pattern is really neat, and gets more intricate as they grow. Also have plenty of wild red-striped liberifer severums that look pretty good and some big and gorgeous efasciatus rainbow severums from Peru. |
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| Pink Convicts |
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| Wild Oscars |
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| Flowerhorn |
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Restocked on a bunch of big OB fish. Some have a crazy pearly sheen, some have red spots, some are super high yellow citrus OBs, some have butterfly-type fins, lots of cool random stuff.
For straight color peacocks and haps, I still have a few fired up vensutus, albino sunshines, big red-fin borleyi males, and full adult male rhoadesi. For smaller fish, livingstoni, white-blaze chrysonotus, lemon jakes, and Ngara flametails all look good.
I have bubblegum socos in stock again at a medium size. This is a crazy looking OB that has pastel blue splotches on a pearly pink base. Not an easy fish to get a decent picture of, but they look great in the tanks.
Best mbunas continue to be the Magunga deeps. Chewere, jewel-spot and avanti 'zebra' elongatus types are all small but look really good. White-top afras and Cobue orange afras are pretty good size and have good color. The common OB zebras might common and boring but they're the best looking mbuna here. |
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| OB Malawi Hap |
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| White-Top Afra |
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| Bubble Gum Soco |
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| sp Deep Magunga Red |
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| Balloon Jewels |
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| Juiced Strawberry Peacoks |
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Burmese sun cats came in great size. They'll keep getting bigger too. They're not redtail cat big but they are plenty big enough that you need to caution your customers.
Blue phantom plecos are as blue as I have seen them in their first days here. Typically they have to be here for several weeks before they get this much color. Colombian zebras and snowballs both got a bit smaller this week.
Pictus cats, farlowellas, four-line pims, spotted and striped raphaels, and chameleon whiptails all look good.
Florida-bred angelicus/eupterus crosses are outstanding. List 2", most of them are closer to 4".
Longfin albino bushynose actually look pretty good. And I have albino bushynose that are very nearly acceptable. They're about 1". |
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| Burmese Sun Cat |
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| Blue Phantom Pleco |
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| Royal Pleco |
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| Colombian Snowball |
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| Colombian Zebra |
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| Pictus Cat |
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| Longfin Bushynose |
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| Way oversized 2" angelicus/eupterus |
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| Tiger Botia |
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Back in stock with moonlight gouramis and they look great. They haven't been around much lately so I expect them to go fast. Might be the best name ever for a fish that's just plain old silver. I'm jealous of whoever came up with this.
Gold honey gouramis are back in stock too. This is a small peaceful species that will do well in a community tank. Red paradise came in small but with great color. Same as a blue paradise in every way other than color and pattern.
Medium turquoise rainbows are good size and bright. Medium boesmanis always look awesome. For smaller rainbows, the Celebes and signifers are both as big as I've seen them. |
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| Moonlight Gouramis |
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| Gold Honey Gouramis |
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| Red Paradise |
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| Turquoise Rainbow |
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| Signifer Rainbow |
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| Celebes Rainbows |
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| Asian Needle Gar |
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Shrimp, Snails & Other Inverts
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Still have limited numbers of the white wizard snails and brown hercules snails that came in last week. Mystery snail availability has been a lot better, filling most colors on most days.
Got in some nice red crystal and gold-backed yellow fire shrimp from Singapore. Also restocked on red rilis and blue velvet shrimp from Indo. |
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| Red Crystal Shrimp |
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| Yellow Fire 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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