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Hey Folks,
Colombia came in this week with less fish than I need but more than I expected, so there's a little more variety from South America. Indo had a bunch of fun stuff, and I got a little more variety than normal from Singapore as well. Florida stuff is all over the place in size; it's hot and fish are growing, but sales have been strong so not everything is oversized.
Tiger badis came in from Singapore this week. Nano fish usually means a tiny schooling fish like a chili rasbora, but these are a nano fish that's like a tiny cichlid. Badis aren't cichlids and they're not related, but they act similar. They are territorial but don't damage each other, they just square off and get real bright. If you have a big enough nano tank you can keep a good size group together, and you should be able to keep some small schooling fish over them. Badis can be picky feeders but they will take a high quality/high attractant micropellet like Sera. They'll also do great on small live or frozen foods.
Chili red oscars are in from Indo. They are crazy bright, the kind of bright red that you probably only get with methyltestosterone in their diet. Kinda kidding, but you will want to keep these guys on a high-carotene color diet for them to keep this color. This is a selectively bred strain of super high red oscar, and other than color it's the same as any other oscar.
Albino hoplo cats are also in from Indo. Came in real nice size. Hoplos are a cory relative but a lot bigger than a standard Corydoras. They're about as peaceful as cories too, but they're big and armored and spikey so they can mix with more aggressive fish too. Basically they'll fit in with most other fish. This albino strain has some pink and a pearly sheen, very neat looking strain.
Please give a call if you have any questions.
Thanks,
Joe Hiduke
Director of Sales & Marketing
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| Albino Hoplo Cat |
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Starfire Red® GloFish® Angelfish!
Coming this summer!!!!! |
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Longfin GloFish® tetras are all great size with outstanding fins. If you don't carry the longfins than you should. The chain stores move just as many longfins as shortfins, and you are way better at selling fish than they are.
Florida-bred highfin black skirts are great size with super long fins. White skirts are pretty good size too. Diamonds and orange von rios are fantastic. Standard von rios, Colombian tetras, serpaes, and longfin serpaes are all decent size. Red-eyes, longfin blushers, gold neons, and silvertips are all in stock but small.
Hujeta rocket gar are in from Indo. These are toothy predators that get about a foot long. Like most of the gar/pike like characins, they're not aggressive but are strongly predatory on small fish. These are tank-raised fish so they're going to be less shy than wild caught fish. Also less likely to go crashing into the sides of the tank.
Glass bloodfins are in stock from Indo as well. Very under-rated fish. Nearly transparent but with bright red tails. They're less nippy than standard bloodfins. Also, they're available which isn't the case with standard bloodfins. Some other far-east farm fish that look good include black emperor tetras, rosy tetras, and green fire tetras.
Wild tetras continue to be in short supply but I did re-stock on red phantoms this week. They're not big but not undersized either. Color is pretty good for one day in my tanks. They'll probably fade next week and they gradually get brighter. Also have nice gold tetras and small green neons. |
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| Longfin GloFish® Tetras are all big and nice. |
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| Highfin Black Skirt Tetras |
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Von Rios
Orange von rios are bigger and brighter but you've seen them three weeks in a row. The standard von rios are pretty nice this week. |
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Black Phantoms
Last ones from my Florida supplier for a while so they may get smaller. |
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| Glass Bloodfins |
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| Hujeta Rocket Gar |
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| Red Phantoms |
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| Green Neons |
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| Gold Tetras |
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Got a few neat far-east imports that I found and I have a few others that may or may not be here. Clown rasboras came in a few weeks ago. They're stable and solid now, and look really good. They look a lot better in my tanks than in my pic. This is a pinkish-red fish with a blue/green spot on the side. Not a nano-fish, these get up to 4" or so. Emerald-eye rasboras are a nano fish, and they are outstanding. Yes it's basically a silver fish but the eyes practically glow when they're set up properly. Lots of checkerboard barbs in stock. They're small but the are already showing some blue. I'm pretty sure I have galaxy rasboras, chili rasboras, and Asian rummynose but I couldn't find them. Ask your rep on Monday.
Platinum green tiger barbs are in stock this week. They're pricier than the standard green tiger barbs but they are a lot bigger, and the color is brighter.
Some Florida fish that look good include all sizes of tiger barbs, zebra danios, gold zebra danios, and gold white clouds. Black ruby barbs got small but still have color. Red glass barbs got small and look crappy. Odessas still look crappy. Rosy barbs are big but a little female heavy. Albino cherry barbs are very mixed, getting some nice bags and others that are undersized. Ask your rep on Monday. |
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| Clown Rasboras |
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| Emerald-Eye Rasboras |
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| Checkerboard Barbs |
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| Platinum Green Tiger Barbs |
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| Zebra Danios |
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Neon swords are some of the nicest swordtails I've seen in ages. These are Florida-bred fish. They're huge, have great color, and there are lots of males. Kohaku swords are imports. Color is great, size is pretty good, but they're mostly female. Sanke swords are small but with nice color, and more males than the kohakus.
I'm back in stock with redtail crystal platies. New supplier and they have a very different look than what I used to get. Less red and the pattern is a little tux-ier instead of speckled. Back in stock with gold twin-bars too. They're a bit smaller than usual but the color is really good. Sunset mickeys, sunsets and XL assorted look great too. Bumblebees and blue mickeys are small this week, skip them.
There's very few guppies left right now but I'll have a bunch more on Sunday. The red dragon, green dragon, and tricolor dumbos all looked good and I should have more incoming. Ocean blues are pretty, like a tequila in pattern and fins but in shades of blue. Midnights, red corals, and Moscow greens were all nice too. |
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| Melanistic Sailfin Mollies |
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| Neon Swordtails |
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| Kohaku Swords |
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| Vampire Sword |
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| Red Crystal Platies |
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| Gold Twin-Bar Platies |
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| Highfin Redtail Black Variatus |
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| Red Panda Guppies |
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| Tricolor Dumbo Guppies |
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Back in stock with gold severums. They're pretty good size, and the select size has a bit of orange in the fins. I might have red-spot golds on Monday, ask your rep.
Jack dempseys are in stock this week. They are small but already showing blue spots. Firemouths are small too so they should be OK to mix with the jacks. Black convicts got small for a few days but now I have big ones too so I don't know what size you'll get. Red devils are pretty good size, 2" are a bit oversized, 3" are way oversized and super bright.
A few other Florida fish that look good include 2" and 3" heckeli, 2" red hump eartheaters, red dovii, haitiensis on sale, and EB acaras.
German gold rams are small but with nice orange heads.
Continuing to get in large gold angels and black angels on most days. The size is fantastic and they're a great value.
Still have most of the Florida-collected Mayan cichlids in stock. The small ones have some color, the big ones have lots of color. Festae-like but slightly less bright and a lot less murderous.
Flowerhorns are some of the nicest ones I've seen here. They're good size, and include lots of fish with red chests, and lots of fish with big blue spots.
Electric blue jacks are small but super bright. EB rams got a little bigger, with bright red eyes.
Some other far-east fish that look good include lemon oscars, red oscars, blue tiger parrots, platinum parrots, and a few medium uaru.
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| Gold Severum |
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| Jack Demspey |
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| Firemouths |
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| Haitiensis |
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| Red Hump Steindachneri Eartheater |
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| German Gold Rams |
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| Mayan Cichlid |
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| Flowerhorns are some of the nicest I've seen. |
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| Electric Blue Jack Dempseys |
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| Electric Blue Rams |
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Running the big OB fish on special this week. The item number is going to show XL OB Peacock on your invoice, but it's a mix of large to XL fish, and they're peacocks, haps, pea-haps, and probably some pea-mbuna-haps. They're all awesome. Pics below look pretty good, fish are even better in person. These are big Florida-bred fish, not juiced imports. Everything has been here two weeks or longer. They sometimes fade a bit coming in from the ponds, but they've been here long enough that this color is about what you can expect. I should say it's the worst you can expect because when they get into a tank with more than glass and a standpipe they'll fire up even more.
Medium venustus range from undersized to oversized and they're definitely hybrids but they're a decent value on sale this week. Medium sunshine peacocks and red fire peacocks are big Florida fish with color. The 2" and 3" peacocks are imports and insanely bright because they're on a hormone feed. They'll fade, but the males will color up again when they mature.
No new mbunas but lots of nice mbunas. The regular mix is good size, very bright, and they're on sale. Acei are on sale too. Albino auratus, snow white socos, yellow labs, pearl zebras BB ornatus, and mainganos all look good too. Medium demasoni are outstanding but remember medium on this fish is half the size of the other mediums. If you want bigger fish get the medium EB johannis, they're twice the size they should be.
Rock kribs look better ever week The males are very bright, and the females are gold with a black checkerboard pattern, so you don't have a bunch of silver fish in the mix like you do with most Victorian haps.
Frontosas are a bit bigger than usual. That's not big, but big enough to start showing blue in the fins.
Gold kribs are OK size with decent color and a good price on my specials page.
Got all the nicholsi dwarf cichlids you could want. Some females in the tank this time, and just about every one of them has a mouthful of eggs right now. |
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| OB Sale Fish |
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| OB Sale Fish |
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| Medium Demasoni |
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| Acei |
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Medium Venustus
Or medium-ish and venustus-ish. They're a little mixy in size and species. |
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3" Assorted Peacocks
Stuffed to the gills with methyltestosterone. |
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| Rock Kribensis |
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| Frontosas |
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| Jewel Cichlids |
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| Gold Kribensis |
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| Nicholsi Dwarf Cichlids |
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I have new cories this week from Colombia, which was a bit of a surprise. Gold/green cories are a little mixy in size but the color is good and they came in in pretty good shape. Also got in a ton of pygmy cories, and I still have huge Brochis cats that came in about a month ago.
Got in quite a few plecos, although it's the same species I get every week. I have lots of small Colombian zebras and slightly bigger Colombian snowballs. Royal plecos still look great. I might have a few green phantoms left, a handful of dracula toothnose vampires, and I definitely have some of the Peru leopard spotted Peckoltias. Wild bushynose came in big with pretty good bushyness.
Glass cats are coming in now and they've been holding up pretty well. Pretty good chance I'll be able to fill these on orders next week.
The extend of other import catfish consists of bumblebee cats, striped and spotted raphaels, four-line pims, Colombian sharks, and Burmese sun cats.
Some tank-raised catfish that look good include small longfin bushynose, sterbai cories, albino paleatus, upside-down cats, 2" Syno decorus, and 2-3" Syno angelicus/eupterus.
Sewellia loaches came in way bigger than normal this week. They're not all as big as the one in the picture below but not too far off of that. Nice color and pattern too. Redtail botias and tiger botias are both big and nice as well. |
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| Gold/Green Cory Cat |
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| Colombian Zebra Pleco |
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| Colombian Snowball Pleco |
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| Royal Pleco |
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| Bushynose Pleco |
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| Bumble Bee Cats |
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| Glass Cats |
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| Sewellia Loach |
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Silver arowanas are in from Colombia. Not that big but way past baby size and they should be sturdy. They are very fresh imports and the fins are rough but they look good otherwise.
Got in a pretty good number of fire eels this week, maybe even enough to get through the week. List 6-7", they're on the high end of that. Zig zag eels are a lot smaller but they look good too, a little bigger than usual.
In stock with platinum gouramis for the first time in a couple months. This one isn't a Florida fish anymore so they're going to be more expensive than the blues or golds, but they are very pretty. Also have import sunset (thicklips), but they did get a lot smaller this week. They look OK, they'll look a lot better once they're about a third bigger. Florida blues are OK size, golds and opalines are a little smaller. Pearls are still terrible. Blue paradise are back in stock and they are big and beautiful.
Large Deepewater Creek rainbows are still big with crazy bright red fins. Medium turqs are big with good color (and the regular size are nice too). Goyder River trifasciatus are pretty good size and bright. Large emeralds are huge and on sale. Regular boesmani rainbows aren't full color but they're a lot closer this week than they have been.
Various other odds and ends that look good include dollar sunfish, albino rainbow sharks, Siamese algae eaters (on sale), dwarf puffers, red paradise, albino bichirs, black ghost knives, and clawed frogs. |
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| Silver Arowana |
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| Fire Eels |
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| ZigZag Eels |
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| Sparkling Gouramis |
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| Platinum Gourami |
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| Sunset Thicklips |
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| Blue Paradise |
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| Goyder River Rainbow |
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| Medium Turquoise |
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| Siamese Algae Eater |
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| Gold Kilis |
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| Clawed Frog |
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Shrimp, Snails & Other Inverts
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Gold, blue, and ivory mystery snails are all in stock and look good. Still have a few horned nerites, lots of assassin snails, and lots and lots of orange rabbit snails.
I have the worst Pinocchio shrimp I've ever seen. No one that reads over my email should by these. They have no red, and if they have long noses I can't see it. Maybe if I put them under a scope or had a better prescription for my glasses. Skip this and get the red fire shrimp, they look really good. Red crystal shrimp look great like usual. Hinomaru shrimp are in stock again too. They're OK, but the pattern is a little fuzzy or pale. |
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| Gold Mystery Snails |
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| Thai Red Crab |
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| Pinocchio Shrimp (and one imposter Red Crystal) |
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| Hinomaru 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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