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Hey Folks,
Thanks again to everyone that stopped by our tanks at Global Pet Expo last week. Not sure we saw too many new customers but I always appreciate the opportunity to get feedback from our regular customers. If you were at the show you saw the amazing Starfire Red® GloFish® Angelfish. If you weren't at the show you can see in the pic below (thanks Alex Rose from Amazonas). In addition to the Starfire Red® GloFish® angelfish I had GloFish® cory cats on display in three different colors. Not only did I have these at Global but I have them available for all of my customers to buy now. There's still some fill rate challenges but I've had at least two if not three colors available on most pack days.
I have some awesome non-transgenic fish in stock this week too. Got in shipments from Bangkok, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Colombia with a little more variety than expected, and a ton of Florida fish including some big show cichlids.
Scarlet Badis are in stock this week. These are always in demand and I'm not sure I have enough to get through the week so order early. This is one of the best and brightest nano fish you can keep. Most nano fish are tiny schooling rasboras or tetras. Scarlet Badis (which aren't even Badis anymore they're Dario dario) are a tiny cichlid-like species. They're related to Nandids (a type of leaf fish), not cichlids, but they have an appearance similar to dwarf cichlid. They defend territories but not big ones, so if you have lots of caves you can keep a bunch in a bigger tank and watch the males show off defending their home or trying to find a girlfriend. They're kind of picky feeders that thrive on live baby brine, and will usually take frozen foods. They'll also do well on Sera micropellets, one of the few prepared foods I've seen them accept.
Blue Badis are also in stock and they've been even harder to come by than scarlets in recent years. They're not as bright, but the are bigger, and they will get more colorful. Chameleon fish is an alternate name for these because they go through crazy color changes. You'll notice there is zero blue on the fish in the picture below but if you look at Google Images you'll see how bright they can get. They'll need more room than the scarlets but otherwise similar in care.
Crocodile fish aka toothpick fish Indostomus are my favorite new fish in here this week. I would have put them in the top spot but a lot of you want to see colors in my first pics. These fish are tiny and they have no color but they are fascinating. They're very much like a miniature freshwater pipefish. I'm not kidding when I say miniature, these are at most 1" and they're not going to get any bigger. Best suited for a species tank. They have tiny mouths and are almost certainly going to need live baby brine, daphnia, or other tiny live foods.
Please give a call if you have any questions.
Thanks,
Joe Hiduke
Director of Sales & Marketing |
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| Blue Badis |
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| Indostomus Crocodile Fish/Toothpick Fish |
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GloFish® Cory Cats
These are now available to all customers. |
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| Starfire Red® GloFish® Angelfish Coming Summer 2024! |
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Orange von rios are still one of the nicest Florida fish here this week. They did get smaller. Or more accurately, they got mixy. There are still lots of big fish in the tanks, but they're mixed with smaller fish. Fortunately even the smaller ones are super bright, and I have them on sale this week.
Diamond tetras are great size and very pretty. Highfin white skirts and black skirts are both big as well. Silvertips, albino silvertips, longfin serpaes, head & tail lights, red-eyes, and Colombian tetras are all decent size. Serpaes are very small this week.
No Indo this week so I'm a little light on far-east farm tetras. I do still have some nice emperor tetras and they're getting bigger every week. No where near what used to be raised in Florida but they're big enough that they're starting to show elongated tail fins and some color. Should have limited numbers of glass bloodfins, balloon red-eyes, green fire tetras, and big penguin tetras. Also have a handful of tank-raised hujeta rocket gar that all your other vendors probably stick in the 'oddballs' category but I'm trying to teach some of y'all taxonomy. They're about 3" and adorable.
Exodons came in from Colombia last week. This set is very nice size, although they'll easily get two or three times their current size. The best display fish for a species tank, but very difficult to keep with other species. They feed on fish fins, scales and eyeballs. They'll usually do OK with bottom dwelling catfish, but anything swimming in the middle of the tank is likely to get chewed on.
A few other wild tetras in stock this week include new gold tetras, green neons, limited numbers of bleeding hearts, small pacu that you shouldn't buy, flagtail Prochilodus, and pink-tail Chalceus. |
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| Diamond Tetra |
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| Orange Von Rio |
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| Highfin Black Skirts |
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| Albino Silvertips |
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| Lemon Tetras |
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| Emperor Tetras |
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| Balloon Red-Eye Tetras |
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| Gold Tetras |
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| Exodons |
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| Pink-Tail Chalceus |
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Choprae glowlight danios are in stock again. Same care and temperament as any other small danio, but with a different and brighter color scheme. I'm surprised these haven't been more popular in the trade as they're a colorful, small and peaceful, and the price point isn't too high. They're smaller than a zebra danio, and some authorities refer to them as Celestichthys, same as a galaxy rasbora. They're more active and less shy than galaxy rasboras, but not as bold as a zebra danio. These would make great tankmates for either of the Badis species that came in this week.
Some other far-east cyprinids that look good right now include new gold neon rosy barbs, small but solid albino tiger barbs, and red panda barbs that are on the brink of showing color.
Florida-bred albino cherry barbs are in stock and got bigger this week. They're not huge but there are plenty of colored males. Longfin leopard danios are pretty good size and zebra danios are still big. Giant danios got a lot smaller but they're still nice. Black ruby barbs also got smaller but the males have better color than I expected at this size. |
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| Choprae Glowlight Danio |
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| Gold Neon Rosy Barb |
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| Red Panda Barb |
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| Albino Cherry Barbs |
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| Green Tiger Barbs |
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| Large Tiger Barbs |
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| Gold White Clouds |
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I have a couple tanks of very nice assorted swordtails. Lots of red in the tank, although it's more orange/red than the old-school deep velvet red. Plenty of males and good size. Other swords that look good include green swords, neons, and red tux. And of course the big vampire and firecracker swords always look great.
I have new redtail crystal platies in stock this week. Different supplier, these are more black and white spotted than what I usually have. Some other platies that look good include sunset mickeys, red tux, gold calicos, sunsets, and I have a new coral red with some plumetails in the tank. Blue mickeys and white mickeys are a bit small but bright and clean.
Best guppies this week are the super gold cobras. Most 'gold' fish are yellow; these are about as close to gold as I've seen in any fish that doesn't involve guanine deposits from trematode exposure (that's why gold tetras are gold). Some other guppies that stand out include midnights (they're dumbos), red dragon and green dragon dumbos, turquoise blue tails, blue Moscows and firetails.
Large gold sailfin and green sailfin mollies are both very nice. Big with great color. |
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| Assorted Swords |
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| Vampire Swords |
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| Yellow Calico Platy |
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| Plumetail Platy |
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| Super Gold Cobra Guppies |
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| Blue Moscow Guppies |
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| Green Sailfin Molly |
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Got in a handful of big fish this week. The synspilums are huge and have really good color. Much better than I usually see in Florida fish. Fenestratus are smaller than syspilums but still great size. They're listed as medium but there's plenty of 6"+ fish in the tank. They started getting a lot of red this week and they'll get way more color as they continue to grow. Jumbo orange-should green severums are huge and super impressive. The XL size is a lot smaller, but still nice. Spectabilis are listed as 'regular' but some of these are pushing 5", fantastic value. Limited numbers of 5" Geo brasiliensis, although none of the other ones are as nice as the guy in the picture below.
I'm back in stock with Jack Dempseys. Kind of a dumb fish to get excited about but they haven't been available in months. They size is fantastic for being so long out of stock. Close to a winter-time medium. Already showing blue spots too. Firemouths are still coming in too although they got smaller this week. Black convicts and pink convicts are both in stock and good size.
Blue aureus 'sapphire firemouths' are in stock in a couple sizes. This is an amazing fish but don't build your orders around them as they are very limited. Google blue aureum for pics of this fish in full color. Don't think 'sapphire firemouth' will give you any results because I just made that up. Thorichthys aureus for your fish geek customers and as long as you know the right scientific name you can tell them to quit bitching about stupid common names.
A few other Florida fish that stand out include Cribroheros altifrons (on sale), red-spot turqs and red-spot red severums, 3" red devils, bifasciatus, melanura, and gorgeous medium EB acaras.
Got in a new set of red pearl flowerhorns from Bangkok. They're not humpy but they're way cheaper than the big kok flowerhorns. Same supplier so they should get a big stupid hump as they get bigger. Especially if you hit up Amazon for flowerhorn food that's probably not supposed to be in the US.
Also have Florida-bred red warrior flowerhorns that had a price drop a couple weeks ago. They're very pretty too, with more red than I usually see on Florida fish at this size.
Blood parrots are great size and crazy bright red. Still have plenty of small platinum parrots and blue tiger parrots too.
Import lemon oscars are a lot smaller this week but they do have really bright color. Still have a few chili oscars left as well. They're probably twice the size of the lemons.
For wild fish, I still have one, maybe two of the big super bright Atabapo red pikes. I also have a new set of 'regular' pikes. Pretty much all the old belly-crawler Batrachops type which are kind of ugly but neat looking and they're all good size. Wild green severums that came in a couple weeks ago look good too. They're not huge but most of them would be at least a large if they were farm fish. |
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| Jumbo Synspilum |
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Jumbo Orange-Shoulder Severum
This is the smallest one here. |
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Oversized 5" brasiliensis Pearly Eartheater
Most of them are a bit smaller and not quite as blue. |
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| Way oversized 'medium' fenestratus |
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| Jack Dempsey |
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Cribroheros altifrons
On special.
Send me your name suggestions for this fish. |
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| Blue Aureus 'Sapphire Firemouth' |
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3" Red Devil
On Special |
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| Medium Electric Blue Acara |
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| Blood Parrot |
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| Bangkok Red Pearl Flowerhorn |
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| Florida-Bred Red Warrior (Kampfa Cross) Flowerhorn |
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| Medium Uaru |
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| Lemon Oscars |
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Large Gold Angelfish
On Special |
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| Wild Colombian Pike Cichlid |
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Red chromides are back in stock. This is one of three Etroplus species, and on a short list of cichlids native to Asia (It's three, except it's not anymore. Check out Iranocichla if you want to learn about Asian cichlids that aren't chromides.) Red chromides are a colorful and peaceful dwarf species. Found in fresh and brackish water, but these are many generations captive so they'll be fine in pure fresh water. These are selectively bred for color and a lot brighter than their wild predecessors. You'll find these in the 'Other Africans' section so I probably need to change that to 'Other Old World Cichlids'.
For proper Africans, I have a few fish that aren't new but were at Global last week. The large OB peacocks aren't huge but the are super bright. They were all 'yellow panda' or 'electric butterfly' OBs or something like that before the show. Gorgeous fish and a nice mix of OB types. I still have a few big male Lwandas, and small Ngaras and lemon jakes.
Medium blue dolphin moori are in stock and very nice. Mixed sex but plenty of color in the females. Had a price drop and I have them on special this week. I also have medium venustus on sale this week. They're decent size and always popular. Even more popular if you call them giraffe cichlids.
Still have a few lingering specialty mbunas. Jewel-spot elongatus should have been one of the first types to sell but I still have about a quarter bag left. Albino OB zebras are super nice. They're a tyrosinase-positive (probably) strain that has purplish blotches. They're small but very pretty. Most of the common mbunas are good size including socos, albino socos, EB johanni, albino auratus, albino red-top zebras, acei, and yellow labs. If you want bigger fish I have very nice medium EB johannis. |
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| Orange Chromide |
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| Medium Blue Dolphin Moori |
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| Lwanda Peacock |
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| Large OB Peacocks |
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| Lavender Albino OB Zebras |
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| Yellow Lab |
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| Acei |
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| Daffodil Brichardis |
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| Karambe Tropheus |
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| Jewel Cichlid |
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Moth cats are in stock again. This might be the only fish I have that could work with the Indostomus crocodile fish. Moth cats are tiny, peaceful, and about as active as a raphael cat on downers. I assume they do things at night but I'm not sure I've ever seen one move. In spite of that they're small and adorable and always sell well. You'll want to target feed these with tiny sinking pellets after the lights are out as they'll be outcompeted by pretty much any fish for food. Except maybe the Indostomus.
Got a couple big vulture cats that came back from Global. List price was pretty steep on these but they're on special at a big discount. Literally two pieces available so don't build you orders around these. They're super active with a neat pattern and don't get a lot bigger so they're way better tank fish than big tiger shovelnose or red-tails. Downside is that they are a lot more aggressive. Most big pims are predatory but otherwise laid-back. Vulture cats can be very bitey with tankmates, even ones that aren't prey-sized.
Good week for plecos from Colombia. Take advantage of this while you can because nothing is coming out of Brazil right now and Colombia is about to close for collection for a few months.
Vampire toothnose galaxy dracula plecos are my favorites of the new plecos. This is the biggest pleco I got in, and they have the larges max size, about 10". They're also the most carnivorous. Very toothy, with shrimp and other inverts a significant part of their diet. They hate each other, and should only be kept one per tank unless it's a really big tank.
Butterfly plecos are in stock again. This is a smaller species with a flat profile. They come from areas with high current and appreciate lots of water movement in their tank. Blue phantoms also came in this week. The price has skyrocketed on these lately but the ones that I have now are actually blue so that helps. Also have plenty of Colombian snowballs, Colombian zebras, green phantoms, small royals, Peru Peckoltia, and wild bushynose. Pretty sure I have a couple mustard-spot plecos left too.
Got nice size punctatus cories that came in last week that look pretty stable. This week's Brochis cats are huge and impressive but I may need to sit on them a while before they go out. Pygmaeus are actually good size for pygmaeus.
Some other import catfish that look good include large Burmese sun cats, banjos, bumblebees, Colombian sharks, farlowellas, and spotted and striped raphaels.
Burmese botias are in stock for the first time in ages. Alternately known as kubotai or angelicus botias. They're banded when they're small and spotted when they're big. These are banded and just starting to change to spotted. Around 2", they'll get up to 5" and pretty stocky. These are clown-loach like in that they're pretty social.
Tiger botias are in stock and nice size. Should have redtail botias, Sewellia loaches, 'Borneo sucker' hillstream loaches, and kuhli loaches available this week too. |
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| Moth Cat aka Anchor Cat |
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| Vulture Cat |
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| Vampire Toothnose Dracula Galaxy Pleco |
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| Butterfly Pleco |
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| Blue Phantom |
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Peru Peckoltia
Like a yellow-less yellow-spot L75 |
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Inconicola Cory
On Special |
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| Brochis |
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| Pygmy Cories |
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| BB Cat |
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| Albino Bushynose Pleco |
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| Florida-Bred True Syno multipunctatus |
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| Burmese Botias |
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| Tiger Botias |
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I have the smallest tire-track eels I've ever seen. They're adorable, and even at this size you can clearly tell that they're right fish from the pattern.
Red paradise are back in stock this week. A newer color variety from Asia, they are super bright and just as hardy as a standard blue paradise. The Florida-bred blues that I have right now are fantastic size and look amazing.
Florida pearl gouramis are in stock again but the size is terrible. I'd recommend skipping them but they've been out of stock a long time so maybe you think you have to have them. Opalines are decent size. For import gouramis, the neon dwarf are probably the prettiest.
Large emerald wanamensis are the biggest rainbowfish here, and I think the only type available in a large size. The medium yellows, medium turquoise, and kamakas are all big and bright too. The regular size on all the rainbows is a little small right now. For the smaller rainbows species, gertrudae are back in stock and huge. Not very photogenic, I'll try again next week.
A few other odds and ends that stand out include large figure-8 puffers, dwarf puffers, medium peacock gudgeon gobies, rhino gobies, knight gobies (these are brackish), clown knives, and brown ghost knives. |
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| Baby Tire-Track Eel |
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| Red Paradise |
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| Pearl Gouramis |
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| Large Wanamensis Emerald Rainbow |
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| Medium Yellow Rainbow |
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| Medium Turquoise Rainbow |
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| Large Figure-8 Puffers |
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| Knight Goby |
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Shrimp, Snails & Other Inverts
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I have more new snails! Quantities are limited but I have a few white(ish) Hercules snails and some porcupine snails. The Hercules are kinda like giant rabbit snails. The porcupine snails are a bit like the pagoda snails but pointier. Should have plenty of assassin snails and orange rabbit snails too.
Domestic mystery snail availability is a lot better. I have golds, blues, ivories, albinos, blacks, and a good mix.
Red crystal shrimp continue to be the best shrimp by a lot. They're brightly colored with nice clean bands. Yellow fire shrimp are big and bright too. |
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| White Hercules Snails |
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| Porcupine Snail |
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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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