Feb 2015, A list of many rare fish!

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Hoplias lacerdae - 2" babies. $100.00 each wild Argentina

Hoplias cf. australis 4" Alto Parana, Brazil new $150.00 one piece only

Hoplias cf. lacerdae 4" Alto Parana, Brazil new super rare $250.00 only
a few pieces available. Look like lacerdae head and jaw with reddish brown color.

Hoplias aimara 8" $ask

Cichla intermedia 8", 15" <---not cheap

Cichla kelberi "bahia" just sold out
Cichla temensis "sold out"
Cichla cf. orinocensis wild 2 spots orino 3-4" rare $100.00 each

Osteoglossum biccirhosum - 4" leucistic - wild fish. These are not the farm raised grape eye albinos for $700.00 each. These are wild ones picked out of the hundreds of thousands of babies exported each year. Yearly yield is but a handful of these. This mutation is new to me, and the hobby, I've not been able to find adult pictures, not even in Japan.

Hoplerythrinus unitaeniatus - Golden wolf 6" $85.00 each, will eat out of your hand if you dare. These are from Argentina, cold water tolerant

Hoplerythrinus sp. "red" these are reddish brown colored, same shape as the gold. 6" $100.00 each, noly 2 pieces.,

Salminus brasiliansis - wild Argentina 3" babies, super nice $65.00 each, limited supply <--- sold out already, sorry.
6" Salminus frascicanus still 4 available 5-6" eating pellets $65.00 each

Metynnis sp. type 1 tiny dime/nickel sized heavily marked juveniles, not sure what they'll turn out to be $35.00 each

Metynnis sp. type 2 greenish silver, about half dollar to dollar coin size $30.00 each

real Mylossoma duriventre 3" $65.00
tiger striped 5" $85.00
these are giant mood shaped, rarely seen or offered silver dollars, these came from Argentina

Mytennis sp. "green" quarter sized $75.00 each

Myleus sp. tiger striped, semi pacu/ silver dollar type 3-4" body $75.00 each

Mytennis sp. "black berry" 5" body $175.00 each super nice.

Chitala oranata - red eye, pink body with body spots 10" eating cut fish $175.00 each

Maccullochella peelii peelii - largest freshwater fish found in Australia, can reach over 100 pounds, like a grouper, completely freshwater as well. 6" $125.00. these will eat pellets and cut fish

Acestrorhynchus pantaneiro - Argentina freshwater barracuda - rarer, bigger, and better
2" $35.00
4" $55.00
8' $100.00

Hydrocynus goliath 5" nice and fat $150.00
Congo -

Astronotus cf. crassipinis "Peru" 3" $25.00 each

Plagioscion squamosissimus - complete freshwater croaker found 1000 miles from ocean. 4" $100.00 super cool and rare in hobby,
will eat cut fish, will chase down feeders

Brachyplastystoma tigrinum 4" eats cut fish readily $165.00
tigrinus catfish

Gymnothorax polyuranodon - panther moray eel - 14" $150.00
super healthy and fat, true freshwater moray eels, only a few left.

Chaetobranchus australis? this one is very rare in the cichlid hobby - basketmouth cichlid, peaceful filter feeding habits. This one is very rarely seen in the hobby, or I've never seen this in the hobby Argentina
3-5" colony. unsexed. $75.00 each picture later

Corydoras diphyes "Paraguay" 2" $35.00 each

C084 - Colombia $35.00 each

Corydoras crypticus $35.00 each

Corydoras ellisae - Rio Parana, Paraguay - not priced yet, still in quarantine, too many came in dead. too sad.

Achirus sp. from Peru 6-7" will munch on cut fish, pellets, and small feeders $55.00
pure frehwater, found 1000 miles from the ocean

Poptella paraguayensis - bright metallic reflective silver tops, quarter sized, peaceful, schooling tetras, very rare in hobby. $20.00 each

P. eigamanni - you're wondering what this is. Think needle nose gar, you remember or know what that is? $10.00 fish from Petsmart, its a brackish fish from Southeast asia, they're usually hard to keep alive and they die. Well, these are pure freshwater from the deep south of South America, and have a maroon stripe, super cool!!! Super rare, you never see these in the hobby. 10-14" big right now, don't ask me what they eat. Potamorrhaphis eigenmanni -
$50.00

Epinephelus lanceolatus - captive bred in brackish water, bumble bee grouper, 5" eats everything, $65.00 each

Toxotes blythii - Burmese archers 3-4" $45.00 each

Monodactylus argenteus 2" $15.00
sebae 2" $15.00

Tetradon mbu 5" $135.00

Catlocarpio siamensis 4" $55.00 each
giant Thailand monsters that can reach 300 pounds, endangered in the wild, these are captive bred fish.

Crenicichla atapbapo I, super nice, red, eats pellets and cut fish, peaceful and colorful pikes $125.00 each 8" fish.,
 

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Hate to say it...but that is an awesome list!
Those corys are intriguing....good thing I havent set up a rimless yet.
 

festaedan

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pics of the catlocarpio and Maccullochella ?
Thanks
 

Silent Bob

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Wes please throw some pics up of the SD's when you get a chance. I may have to place an order.

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