November DAPHNIA & FISH FS

Frank Cowherd

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FOR SALE: Daphnia and other live food cultures plus various home grown fish

I can deliver to the next CCA meeting Saturday NOVEMBER 12TH, 2016.
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DAPHNIA $5 a bag
MICROWORM culture in a plastic food-storage box $5
MICROWORM starter (1 tablespoon of a going culture) is free to any CCA member, just ask for the starter.
VINEGAR EEL culture $5 (one pint) with collecting sponge in a food storage box.
Rotifer culture starter is free to any CCA member, just ask for rotifer starter.

All fish are home grown, tank raised.
Order in this thread, preferred, or PM me, please.

Synodontis petricola -- $10 each

Gymnogeophagus balzanii -- a male and two females $22. -- a male and three females $25

Pseudotropheus demasoni -- 6 two to three inch fish $20

EPIPLATY ANNULATUS -- ROCKET KILLIE -- one pair $12

NEOLAMPROLOGUS PULCHER - DAFFODIL or lyretail fairy cichlid -- 6 two inch fish for $20
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L183, also known as the Starlight Bristlenose Catfish or Dolly Pleco -- 1.5 to 2 inch $20 each.
These are the ones with the white edging to the dorsal and caudal fins in both juvies and adults.
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Melanotaenia rubrivittata "Wapoga Red Laser" Rainbow fish $20 a pair or 6 juvies (about 3/4 inch) for $25.

Pearl gouramis adults, $10 a pair.

Opaline gouramis $4 each.

Red KOI angelfish young 1 to 2 inch fish $5 each
Black lace angelfish adults $7 each
Platinum pearlscale angelfish adults $10 each
Clown angelfish $8 each

Electric blue rams $12 each male or female, $22 a pair.
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Gold rams $16 a pair

Corydoras axelrodi $8 each

Corydoras trilineatus $8 each (AKA leopard cory)

Corydoras schultzi black $10 each. These are good looking black corys.
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Corydoras sterbai $8 each

Corydoras panda $5 each

Corydoras paleatus $5 each

Corydoras oiapoquensis $10 each

L144, also know as the black-eyed yellow BN, adults $20 a pair or $10 each

BN regular adult brown $6 each
BN albino small $3 each
BN adult albino $6 each

Red velvet swordtails adults $4 each
Black velvet swordtails adults $4 each.

Red wag platys adults $3 each
Half-black yellow delta-tail guppies $5 each, three pairs for $25.

Spotted bullheads -- 8 inch fish $10 each These fish are native to many southern US rivers like the Suwannee River in FL and GA. These are actually a spotted version of the brown bullhead. They grow to about 14-18 inches and will fit in any large cichlid tank, like where a red-tailed catfish would, without getting so big.

Black banded sunfish native to the swamps of the east coast of the US. 1 to 3 inch fish. $10 each

All fish are home grown, tank raised.
Order in this thread, preferred, or PM me, please.
 
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rich_one

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Frank,

I am adding to my order. Here is my full order:

1 L183 pleco
1 quad of gymnogeo balzanii
1 pair of electric blue rams
2 platinum pearlscale angels
1 quad of red velvet swordtails
1 adult brown and 1 adult albino bn pleco

No rainbows at this time.

Thanks!

-Rich
 

jstlstn

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Frank 2 bags of daphnia, one adult albino BN and a starter culture of if you please. Was think about the blue rams but I think the water parameters may be hard for me to maintain. My water is pretty high on PH.
 

Frank Cowherd

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Phill, yes, any of the rams will live and try to spawn at pH from 7.3 to 7.8 but they do not like it. I have had spawns of them at 7.8 but very few fry survive and the adult rams do not seem to live as long at the high pH. Rams are best kept at 7.2 pH and lower. A pH of 6.5 to 7.0 is what I would recommend.
 

Frank Cowherd

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Jose, I added a picture of the black corys to the first post above. Also added a pic of the EB rams.
 
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Becca

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Frank, I totally bombed at re-starting my microworm cultures. I forgot to put lids on them one night and some sort of fly invaded. May I have one more starter from you? If I fail again, I'll give up and buy a new culture.
 

Frank Cowherd

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Becca,

No problem, I will bring you another microworm starter.

BTW, fish consider the maggots from fruit flies and such to be a delicacy. You can always collect the microworms with a spatula, disperse them in water and run this through a fine net to get maggot free microworms for the fry and feed the maggots to bigger fish.

And if you have a maggot-full culture of microworms and want to get a maggot-free microworm culture, run enough of the culture through a fine net to get enough to start a new culture. You can even just take the surface liquid and run it through the net or dilute the culture with a couple spoonfuls of water if you want, and use the liquid that comes through the net to start the next culture. But this does not always work if the gnats or flies have just laid eggs, since the eggs are also small and could go through the net. You might have to do it a second time if the maggots are back.
 

Becca

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Becca,

No problem, I will bring you another microworm starter.

BTW, fish consider the maggots from fruit flies and such to be a delicacy. You can always collect the microworms with a spatula, disperse them in water and run this through a fine net to get maggot free microworms for the fry and feed the maggots to bigger fish.

And if you have a maggot-full culture of microworms and want to get a maggot-free microworm culture, run enough of the culture through a fine net to get enough to start a new culture. You can even just take the surface liquid and run it through the net or dilute the culture with a couple spoonfuls of water if you want, and use the liquid that comes through the net to start the next culture. But this does not always work if the gnats or flies have just laid eggs, since the eggs are also small and could go through the net. You might have to do it a second time if the maggots are back.
Good to know. I had the same flies (not fruit flies, but similar) do in my grindal culture by outcompeting the worms for food. Having a 2nd kid fried my brain. I can't remember to put lids on anything.
 

zendog

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Hi Frank,
If you have any left after what looks like a pretty good run on daphnia, we'll take 3 bags.
Thanks.
 
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