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Hey Folks,
Joe and Dave are both out of Aquashella Dallas today and this weekend, so if you're at the show make sure to find the Nautilus booth, where they will be showing off the newest GloFish available this summer! If you stop by, it may be financially beneficial to you to do so ; )
We got a lot of nice stuff this past week that's ready to go to you now. I think we have more types of severums in stock than I've seen at one time in years. We got a very nice shipment of fish from Israel also, which didn't make it onto the stocklist last week but we have pricing for all of those now and everything is less than I was expecting! Also got a fresh batch of some larger colored up male peacocks and hap cichlids, as well as a restock on some of the Florida-collected fish like the always popular Belonosox and the Dollar sunfish as well as large wild caught mollies and jewel cichlids.
Our indonesian shipment this week also had 2 brand new fish we've never had before that I think you'll be excited about if you're a store that caters to the more hobbyist side of the industry. First are some "Pygmy Rainbow Severums", a severum that is in it's own genus that only gets 3 or 4 inches max but gets great color still. These should be super fun for fish nerds to mess around with to try their hand at breeding. They're extremely rare and don't come into the country very often, especially not at the wholesale level.
The other new fish are "Red Tailed Goodeid" which are a type of Xenoteca. Every fish in the Goodeid family is either extinct in the wild or almost extinct. They are livebearers from Mexico originally, and are being kept in existence due entirely to the ornamental fish trade. They get large (molly size....3 inches or so) and this species gets an incredible red and blue coloration on the males. being livebearers, they're relatively easy to breed, and they are extremely hardy and adaptable to a wide range of water conditions.
Please give a call if you have any questions.
Thanks,
Joe Hiduke
Director of Sales & Marketing
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| Belonosox aka "Pike Livebearer" is the coolest livebearer on the planet |
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| 8 Inch Royal Clown Knife |
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| Red Tailed Goodeid (Xenoteca Einseni) |
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| "Pygmy Rainbow Severum" - Heroina isonycterina |
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| Huge Telescope Goldfish from Israel are on the list this week |
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Starfire Red® GloFish® Angels!!!
Mark your calendar! Launch date is 7/21! |
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A lot of tetras are running really great size right now, including both black and white varieties of skirt tetra, orange von rios, diamonds, black phantoms, embers, and penguins.
It's been a few weeks since we have nay hatchetfish since Colombia has been on virtual lockdown for a while now, but we did get a large sized silver hatchet this week and they look great. Definitely live up to the name. They're large, and they're silver. These will hang out at the top 2 or 3 inches of your aquariums, and are definite jumpers so make sure to have a lid.
Small pacus are still in stock, and still terrible for your customers. We will stop carrying them when you all stop buying them. Please stop buying them. Nobody needs a pacu unless they have a swimming pool set up as a fish pond. |
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| White Tetras are running huge |
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| Orange Von Rio are the best looking tetra |
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| Large Silver Hatchets lived up to the name |
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| Black Phantoms are looking fantastic |
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| Emperor tetras are holding up great |
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| HF Black skirts are the biggest ive seen in a while |
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Not a ton of new stuff in the barb section, but we did get some solid sized Red Pandas that are ALMOST red. They're literally a week or two away from coloring up, so great time to pick them up. The Gold barbs are also still extremely nice and large, I just didn't put a picture since Joe put a picture of them on here last week, but they're still just as nice.
For rasboras, selection is limited to just a couple types, but the hets are fantastic. Super healthy looking batch, very active, good size, and showing good color. |
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| Red Panda barbs are almost red |
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| Rasbora hets are great size this week |
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| Albino cherry barb |
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| Lots of males, but as you can see, not much color yet |
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Apart from the most exciting new livebearer I talked about above in the intro, the Red Tailed Goodeids, we also have prices on the new stuff from Israel finally. The Hawaiian variatus are somethign every store that wants to have the best fish available should be buying. The price isn't outrageous, and they're the best looking platy type fish here by a huge margin. And better still, they've been here for about 2 weeks and there are literally zero recorded dead on the sheet for their tank.
Guppies that look best this week include the red tux, mixed dumbos, super gold cobras, and blue turquoise. Best swordtails are definitely the red tux, and it's not even close on that.
Also in stock with more Belonosox "Pike Liverbearers". I catch these invasive down in south Florida and they're awesome. Size is 3 inches or bigger, so they're all big enough to easily eat feeder guppies or larger. These are strictly live fish eaters unless you train them onto frozen yourself. Definitely the coolest livebearer in the world. They'll get about 8 inches fully grown and give live birth like a platy, but the babies are murderous little fish eating devils from the minute they come out. |
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| Red Tux Swords |
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| Hawaiian Variatus |
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| Red Tux are the best looking guppy |
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| Mixed platies are a nice mix, not a bunch of rejects |
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| Red Tailed Goodeid - Xenoteca Eiseni *this is what they look like now* |
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| Same fish as above, but this is what slightly older males look like. Picture taken from the Goodeid Working Group website. Which is a fantastic resource for information on goodeids |
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It's the week for Severums apparently. We got 4 new species in this week. The most popular and best looking are defintiely the red spotted golds, which are florida bred and not hormone fed so will only get nicer and they age. Also got some locally bred Rotkeils for the first time. These are virtually indistinguishable from a normal green severum right now, but they look much better once they grow up compared to a normal aquarium strain green. Plus the pygmy severums that I talked about in the intro paragraph up top.
For the common bread and butter stuff, we do have most of them in stock this week. The convicts, firemouths, jacks, and green terrors that you need for all your customers that i'd imagine only listen to "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and "In Bloom" and then skips the rest of the album cause they didn't hear the other songs on the radio. |
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| Dollar Sunfish |
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| Sunset Apistogramma - female pictured, males are even nicer |
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| Green Select Severum |
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| Rotkeil Severum |
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| Med Red Spot Gold Severum |
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| Medium size oscar. I'm showing this so you WONT buy them. The assorted small size is literally a quarter inch smaller and half the price. |
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| Medium sized angels are nice this week |
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Got a local breeder to drop off some more good sized peacocks and haps full of color. The medium mix peacock is your best bang for your buck on africans this week for sure, We did get some more OB red empress, and OB jungle haps, and OB Butterfly peacocks, so if you want OBs we have those options for you too, but if you want somethign that's not OB this medium mix is fantastic at the moment. Just be aware it's not all peacocks even though it's listed as peacocks.....contains some taiwan reefs and red empress haps also.
Florida bred non-hormoned fish, so they won't fade in a week like the 10 dollar ones you buy from other wholesalers do. It's worth spending the extra for Florida fish on cichlids 100% of the time. |
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| Mix medium peacocks |
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Got a delivery of some really nice Synodontis catfish, all Multipunctatus types. First are the 3 inch assorted, which have a misleading name, It's not an assortment of different types of synos like it sounds...it's random hybrid multipunctatus at a solid size. Some are lighter, some are darker, some have little spots, some have big spots, etc. Next we also got a new "panda" multi from the breeder too. He calls these pandas because they get bigger blotches rather than just little spots, so sort of are a panda black and white blotchy type pattern.
From Colombia we did restock some of the cheap staples like pictus catfish, pygmy cory cats, and banjo cats.
Not a ton in the way of cory cats this week though honestly. It's pretty much just the pygmy alongside some Juli and Sterbai for imported fish, and the green, albino, and paleatus that are Florida bred.
Still have a couple green phantoms left, but only small size. Also still have Colombian snowballs, but the zebras did sell out last week and didn't get restocked. |
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| Cory pygmaeus |
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| Green Phantom Pleco - only have 3 left |
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| Shovelnose Woodcat - on the stocklist this week |
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| 8-10 inch plecos are wild collected, and have nice fat full bellies. Worth the extra cost over the next size down |
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| Sewellia "Hillstream" loach |
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| Assorted 3 inch Syno Cats are not assorted species, they're assorted random hybrids of mostly Multipunctatus. You wont get Eupterus when you buy these |
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For Rainbows your best bets are the medium sized turqs or either size of the yellows. Yellows I feel always get overlooked in favor of Boesemani since those are the one that Petsmart decided to carry back in the day. But honestly Yellows have almost the same color palette and are almost always running larger and better.
Got a restock on the small black ghost knives, and they're tank-raised from Asia again. These should theoretically hold up a lot better than the wild caught ones that are larger.
Mudskippers are in! Definitely the cutest faces on the stocklist. these are NOT good for normal aquariums, they will actually drown and pretty quickly if you keep them in a full tank. They need to have land to get out onto, like baby turtles. They will eat crickets, but also will take bloodworms in the water. |
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| Medium Turqouise Rainbow |
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| Yellow Rainbows are like a much better looking Boesemani |
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| Small black ghost knives are tank raised |
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| All Male Dwarf Gourami are this color, the natural wild type dwarf gourami. This is NOT a mix of the different colors of dwarf gouramis. |
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| Mudskippers. The most adorable thing on the property, since I'm not allowed to bring my dog to the office |
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Shrimp, Snails & Other Inverts
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Continuing to get plenty of mystery snails every week. This week ivories got a little smaller but still look good. Blues and golds are nice too. Plenty of import orange rabbit snails and assassin snails as well.
Borneo panther crabs are in stock and one of the coolest things here. Similar to the vampire crabs but more aquatic.
Shrimp selection isn't fantastic, but I do have a nice delux mix which in itself is a fantastic mix. If you want a wide range of colors nad types just order that mix, they're all very nice shrimp that come in that. |
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| Mix Mystery snails |
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| Mix Delux 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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