Best retailer to ordee fish online in the USA
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I used to live in Portland Oregon where they are located. And got lots of fish from the commercial store. They also have a warehouse for the online sales section. Great customer service. When I lived across the river in Washington state during covid I ordered some fish and were at my door the next morning! Great customer service, great packaging, and a stickler for delivery during the cold season, if too cold on thier side or arrival side won't ship out till the temps rise to ensure a safe delivery.
www.wetspottropicalfish.com
I used to live in Portland Oregon where they are located. And got lots of fish from the commercial store. They also have a warehouse for the online sales section. Great customer service. When I lived across the river in Washington state during covid I ordered some fish and were at my door the next morning! Great customer service, great packaging, and a stickler for delivery during the cold season, if too cold on thier side or arrival side won't ship out till the temps rise to ensure a safe delivery.
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If you want African cichlids Ron’s Cichlids;
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Alternatively, Snake River Cichlids;
I have purchased from both and they have quality, large selection, buy by sex & size, & good shipping & service
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Alternatively, Snake River Cichlids;
I have purchased from both and they have quality, large selection, buy by sex & size, & good shipping & service
They seem to have a sparse selection right now. Does that vary by time of year?
Agree with the others, but it also depends on what you are looking for.
Dave's rare cichlids in Texas for non-hybridized rift lake African Cichlids, and he also teams up with and another aquarist that specializes on Madagacan cichlids.
Another is Aquaticlarity for dwarf, soft water (low pH) cichlids among others.
It's always a good idea to let people what you are looking for, and your location, especially when needing to have fish shipped.
I have received shipments from almost all the above, when living in the states, and had good luck with them all.
Dave's rare cichlids in Texas for non-hybridized rift lake African Cichlids, and he also teams up with and another aquarist that specializes on Madagacan cichlids.
Another is Aquaticlarity for dwarf, soft water (low pH) cichlids among others.
It's always a good idea to let people what you are looking for, and your location, especially when needing to have fish shipped.
I have received shipments from almost all the above, when living in the states, and had good luck with them all.
I recently ordered tropheus from cichlidlovers.com and had an absolutely brilliant experience for size, price, quality and shipping. Alan & Lynette are more old school and have been doing it for over 3 decades. They have a large selection of Malawi, and a handful of Tang & CA/SA cichlids.
I haven't heard of these.
It seems like there are many more cichlid breeders than any other type.
I wondered if that was the case.
Living here in Panama, I do a modicum of collecting myself, for my own tanks, and I am beginning to realize the difficulties and dangers of collecting in the rainy season, and that just because I want a certain species, doesn't necessarily mean in is to be found.
I started getting serious about collecting after Covid, and although there are as many as about 15 cichlid species known to come from eastern Panama,
I have only found 3 species in those 3 years of collecting trips so far.
I have collected from the Rio Chagres in the central section of the country, to the Rio Ipiti on the east, in the Darien.
In Central Panama, in over a dozen or so trips, I was only able to collect Andinoacara coeruleopunctatus.
It wasn't until I hit the upper reaches of the Rio Pacora, during some intence dry months , that Isthmoheros tuyrense appeared in out nets., I have since found in more easterly rivers.
And in wasn't untill I hit the Rio Mamoni, on the edge of the Darien, that Darienheros calobrense was found.
And there have been a number of trips, where nothing or maybe 1 or 2 fish were caught.
We went to the Rio Mamoni about 2 weeks ago and only caught 1 Sturisomatichthys whip tail cat and 1 Andinioacara .
And that is at a cost for me, of over $200, for the day.
I started getting serious about collecting after Covid, and although there are as many as about 15 cichlid species known to come from eastern Panama,
I have only found 3 species in those 3 years of collecting trips so far.
I have collected from the Rio Chagres in the central section of the country, to the Rio Ipiti on the east, in the Darien.
In Central Panama, in over a dozen or so trips, I was only able to collect Andinoacara coeruleopunctatus.
It wasn't until I hit the upper reaches of the Rio Pacora, during some intence dry months , that Isthmoheros tuyrense appeared in out nets., I have since found in more easterly rivers.
And in wasn't untill I hit the Rio Mamoni, on the edge of the Darien, that Darienheros calobrense was found.
And there have been a number of trips, where nothing or maybe 1 or 2 fish were caught.
We went to the Rio Mamoni about 2 weeks ago and only caught 1 Sturisomatichthys whip tail cat and 1 Andinioacara .
And that is at a cost for me, of over $200, for the day.