12" or less! LOL
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Earth Eaters!!! Gymnogeophagus rhabdotus, G. Labiatus, G. Balzani, Geophagus surinamensis, G. altifrons, Satanoperca daemon, S. Lilith, and more!!! However they need to be bigger/older before they color up, juvenilles are pretty bland
Orbit works at a huge pet store called Preuss in Lansing Michigan. They don't sell new world cichlids very well and don't like to stock fish that get 2' long if they are not going to sell very well. They have so much stock to chose from they always have something. I took some amphilophus sagittae up there so they do have some oddball monsters but they don't usually tend to stock gigantic new worlds.
Jesse I'd suggest cryptoheros and thorichthys species would be good. They always tend to sell nanoluteus and other stuff well don't they? Maybe pick up a balzani or something weird too. Do you know if Conkel has sajicas? If he does get some of those for sure. They should sell really well. Maybe buy a few sexed pairs of fish to put in their own tanks and sell as a pair or bring in some cheaper wild caughts just for the fact that its wild caught. Aside from that ask Rick if he'd like to get in on a good flowerhorn fry buy with me I want to get some more fry from Julie. I'm sure you wouldn't mind selling quality fry to people if you had them in stock!
Jesse I'd suggest cryptoheros and thorichthys species would be good. They always tend to sell nanoluteus and other stuff well don't they? Maybe pick up a balzani or something weird too. Do you know if Conkel has sajicas? If he does get some of those for sure. They should sell really well. Maybe buy a few sexed pairs of fish to put in their own tanks and sell as a pair or bring in some cheaper wild caughts just for the fact that its wild caught. Aside from that ask Rick if he'd like to get in on a good flowerhorn fry buy with me I want to get some more fry from Julie. I'm sure you wouldn't mind selling quality fry to people if you had them in stock!
cichlidfish;3068684; said:
Awesome list...these are the ones I'd go with. You should also try to find some good pics online to print out to have at the store to show customers what the fish will look like as adults. The reason a lot of the rarer CA cichlids don't sell well at lfs is because the common hobbyist goes in looking for something pretty. They see these little grey fish not knowing what beauties they will turn into. C. nanoluteus is another good one and they show color from a very young age.
zerojquan85;3069874; said:
Because they grow over 12"
...just like dovii, jags, trimac and many of the others that were suggested btw, if I went to an lfs that sold istlanum I would possibly never leave
lol