• Monster sized Corys across the board
• The new and super cool CW28 - Super schwartzi Cory
• Enormous sized L205

• Nice sized Aulonocranus dewindti a cool featherfin with a really unique bower
• Nice sized brevis from Kitumba
• Upsized gold head compressiceps. For F1s I almost never get them at this size.

Good evening,

Attached is a current stocklist. I received a couple of wonderful orders in the last few days. Highlights from yesterday would be:

* Some immense water cows from Ecuador
* Great sized wild green terrors, ready to breed
* Wild Amphilophus festae, the red terror (a must for big cichlid fans)
* Very nice wild angelfish from Peru (fantastic finnage)
* Full sized Callichthys callichthys - an armored catfish that breeds as a bubblenest builder
* Nice sized Corydoras
* Real Sataenoperca jurapari from Peru (not leucosticta)
* Tatia perugiae, an internal fertilization wood catfish
* Some nice sized black congo knife fish - one of the easiest knives to keep, they even will eat flake!

I am planning to speed up imports as more tanks come online in the coming weeks. If you have any questions on any of the new stock, do not hesitate to ask!

American shipping will at long last start this month. I will have a separate stocklist for US / Europe to sign up for on the website (the list will be small to start but I will be building it up). Be sure to look out for it in the coming days.

Spencer

Good morning!

I received a wonderful order last evening! There are a great deal of highlights, the absolute show stopper though has to be the Paretroplus nourissati. They came in as full size breeders of this very rare cichlid. A very cool new Aulonocara stuartgranti "Makondiwa" came in fully coloured and I was able to get the green face peacock (saulosi) in trios!

Some great size mbuna are in stock, many of which came in holding! The OB yellow chin zebra turns into one of the more spectacular marmalade mbuna of the lake. Males go blue with the blotches and females remain a vibrant orange with the blotches. I also have been able to receive Albino Zebra obliquidens and at a good size, too! Some very healthy Tropheus also arrived.

I will try to get more pictures of the highlights when they manage to get some rest from the shipping.

Cheers,

Spencer


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*Note we will be closed from May 9th till May 22nd

Good evening,

I received a beautiful order from my facilities down south tonight featuring mostly Malawi peacocks. The headliner easily has to be the absolute bomber German reds and the blinding strawberry peacock males. The German reds are among the biggest I have ever seen with at least 5 of the males.

A number of the other Aulonocara are a very nice size with the lemon jakes, mdoka and chiwindi being a bit oversized.

I also have for the first time available young adult Gymnogeophagus sp. Norte with a few of the males pushing near four inch, but most being 3 inch and above.

I failed to mention on the last list that I received albino koi swordtails which I am not a fan of man made fish but I have to admit these are rather cool.

For folks on the list near Toronto wanting to share shipping I am putting together a group order of those who are interested in sharing. Am targeting later next week contact me if you wish to be included.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask!


Spencer

Good Afternoon,

I had a very nice African order arrive last night with a number of highlights. The wild Ngara are show stoppers, the wild ethylwynnae are of a very nice size and the maylandi are beyond compare. The highlight is easily the young adult and full adult size of the Tanzanian spilonotus (pictured below) All new fish are indicated in red on the list.

I also received some more copies of Back to Nature Catfish written by David Sands.

Next up are another Malawi order from my facilities and a standard farm order. Early in March I am anticipating a Central American order which is just starting to take shape. There will be a number of very cool almost never seen fish included on that one. All anticipated arrivals are indicated in pink on the list.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us.

Cheers,

Spencer

Last night I had an absolutely perfect order come in, especially surprising considering how cold it turned later in the day here. Is a great deal of highlights I will try to illustrate a few below.

I have ordered a tremendous amount of Rift Lake cichlids, especially Malawi as you will see indicated by the pink on the list. The wild portion of it should arrive later next week depending on weather with the remaining to arrive shortly there after. I have a number of extremely cool fish coming, including for the first time in over ten years I will have wild caught Ngara stuartgranti, not Mdoka. As well as my all time favorite genus of Lake Malawi Tyrannochromis. In my mind the coolest of all the pursuit predators in the lake. If you would like to place a hold on any incoming fish let me know and I will work out rough estimates of price. Since many are limited I again urge you to state interest so I can be sure to hold it back for you.

Plus another first for me is Dimidiochromis dimideatus a relatively new species from Lake Malawi that looks like the love child of a Rhamphochromis and an eye biter. A very streamlined torpedo fish that also is the smallest member of the genus Dimidiochromis.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask!

Spencer

Good evening,


At long last I had a small enough window to ship fish in due to the cold weather in Winnipeg. Even then I had them arrive through a blizzard but everything arrived in very beautiful condition.

Considering how many fish came in it is impossible to do highlights as there really is a tremendous amount. Ones that jump to the top of my head and made me really go wow were of the following...

• More great sized wild Brazilian scalare angelfish
• An awesome Altolamprologus compressiceps from Kagongo
• Some very large and healthy Tanganyikan eels.
• My all time favorite Victorian cichlid Paralabidochromis chromogenys (I know sounds like a bad disease) these guys in now are even over sized for them and just starting to colour out.
• Some great sized Eretmodus
• Very nice sized Copadichromis borlyei "Kadango" the red fin borlyei. (And not juiced ones from Asia that never gain their full potential as adults)
• Dimidiochromis kiwinge one of the all time cool predators of Lake Malawi. Came in far larger than anticipated as well.
• Boulengerochromis microlepsis, the Emperor cichlid. World's largest cichlid. Owning one of these is often compared to owning a dog for their intelligence levels.
• Amphilophus festae, true red terrors from Ecuador. The wild caughts grow up to being arguably the most colourful and striking cichlid on this planet. Is also one of the few which the female is even more colourful then the male by a long shot (and the males are very attractive themselves)
• The very seldom seen Aulonocara kandeensis - the blue orchid. First time I have managed to get wild caughts of them in over 4 years.

If you have any questions whatsoever please do not hesitate to ask.


Cheers,


Spencer

Good afternoon,


Received a very nice wild South American order last night. Fish remaining have a number of cool highlights;

- I received some enormous Corydoras pantanalensis for the first time and very nice sized Corydoras sterbai.

- Probably one of the cooler catfish I have had in a while, some perfect sized sailfin achara loaded with personality and some of the coolest whiskers I have seen (extremely long and spotted!)

- Absolute jumbo ready for show size L102 and L205. The L102s I had no clue they even got that large.

- Some of the largest Black ghost knives I have received, a few pushing a foot long.

- nice healthy motoro stingrays

- Very nice sized and in good condition wild Brazilian angelfish. If you have never had wild angels before they really are a treat as they are far more full of life and vigor with their behaviors. Plus will grow to be a very large size compared to domestic varieties.

- One of my favorite geophagus types Acarichthys heckelii the threadfin geophagus.

- last but not least some big Crenicichla strigata which showed up with far more colour and size then anticipated.


I am finally able to start shipping to hobbyists on Westjet again after the Christmas shipping embargo on live animals starting this weekend.



Cheers,

Spencer

Good afternoon,


I received a letter perfect order of African cichlids this week. There are a number of highlights, including another great young group of wild C. gibberosa from Kipili (for the money the nicest wild caught frontosa you can get) My favorite Madagascar cichlid came in bigger than expected: Paratroplus menerambo, the pin stripe damba, is the closest thing you will get to a salt water fish in a cichlid.

A number of cool wild caught peacocks came in on this order. I also brought in two very cool Cynotilapia afra, including a new one from Mara which is very different than other C. afra I have had in the past. There are a number of oversized and young breeder featherfins from Lake Tanganyika, more red rainbow Tropheus and some nice sized cherry spots from Bulu point, already coloured.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

Cheers,

Spencer