Select Aquatics
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Select Aquatics breeds affordable,
quality, specialty tropical fish for
hobbyists and conservation
research. Most are not often
seen and many are endangered
or extinct in the wild. This site
is also a one stop place for
fishkeeping information on how best to
keep these fish.
If you are keeping an aquarium,
you have the opportunity to help
preserve species that are about to
go extinct in the wild. As well, due
to increased export restrictions,
many species are at risk of
disappearing from the hobby.
The fish offered here are hardy,
generally not difficult to care
for, and may depend on
hobbyists such as yourself to
maintain their availability. |
Select Aquatics of
Erie, CO.
Since 2008 |
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Select Aquatics
maintains a
fairly consistent collection
of species/lines that are
bred here and posted as
available. If you wish to buy
anything on this page, or wish
to see a new species offered,
please contact Greg Sage at
selectaquatics@gmail.com
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See New Shipping Info
and Status
of Every Species in Narrative Below! |
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Select Aquatics Lineup |
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Receive Notice when each Species
becomes Available by Subscribing to
the Select Aquatics YouTube Channel!
To Order.
Use Paypal Buttons below, for Live
Goods,
Email
selectaquatics@gmail.com,
and
Please Include Your Zip Code!
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Available
Now
See Updated Shipping Info
Below
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Species Lineup and Prices
Levamisole for
Sale
Fishkeeping Tips
Articles,
Handouts and Videos
Rapid Grow Plant Fertilizer
Water Change System
Why should I Keep Rare Fish?
Tour the
Fishroom
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What Do
Customers
Think of
Select
Aquatics?
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Perfect
Batch
Brine Shrimp Hatcher
Manual
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"Select Aquatics strives to provide
Friendly, Prompt, and Professional
service for every customer. We
ship Affordable, Top Quality Fish,
with the Care and Personal
Assistance to ensure a positive
online fish buying experience ."
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Ordering new species you've never
kept from someone you don't know
with water different than yours can
be scary. Some assurance that in
6 months the fish will still be doing
well would be ideal, particularly
since many of these fish are rare
or hard to obtain.
From your first email to inquire
about ordering until the moment
they arrive, we will keep in close
touch to answer any questions you
may have so that you know exactly
what you are getting, and precisely
when they will be sent. Care
information for each species is
also provided Here.
Postage is never overcharged, and
extras are nearly always sent with
carefully done, professional
shipping. To help ensure they do
well for you, a Care Guide is
provided for each species from
the link below. Be sure to check
the updated comments at "What
Do Customers Think of Select
Aquatics" at the link just above!
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Zoogonecticus tequila
Rio Teuchitlan, Mexico
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When Happy, most Males will become
jet black! |
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Check Out The Youtube Availability Video
HERE
Over 55 Top Quality
Pairs Shipped this Month! |
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Young Sexed Pairs are Still Available!
See Cost and Shipping Rates Below
Email selectaquatics@gmail.com
for a Quote
and Next Available Day to Ship.
Be sure to
include your Zip Code! |
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See the Hatcher Manual
HERE! |
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Ataeniobious toweri, Anteojitas,
San Marcos, Mexico
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Check Out The Youtube Availability Video
Select Aquatics Available - A. toweri 2023 |
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Young Groups of 2-4 Month Old
Unsexed Available!
See Cost and Shipping Rates Below
Email selectaquatics@gmail.com
for a Quote
and Next Available Day to Ship.
Be sure to
include your Zip Code. |
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Pethia padamya "Odessa"
Selectively Bred at Select Aquatics Since 2010 |
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The link to the Odessa Availability Video
will be
listed here when the Video is
posted,
and the Odessas are ready to
be
Shipped.
Check
Out this Video on the Odessas
HERE. |
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2-4 Month Old Unsexed will be ready to ship
soon!
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The Tools we use here to
Best Keep These Fish -
Available For Sale! |
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Email
selectaquatics@gmail.com
to purchase any of these fish.
Extras are sent
with every
carefully packed box.
Payment by Paypal, check
or money order.
Paypal account:
selectaquatics@gmail.com
Please drop us an email if
you have any questions or
concerns about anything at
the site - simply email
and
we will
get right back
to you. Thank you!
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Do You Have Trouble
Keeping Livebearers?
There
is a very Common Disease in the
Hobby that causes many Livebearers to
become thin and perish. A small parasite
exists in our aquariums, and often comes
from where we obtain our Fish, and it
primarily affects Guppies,
Swords, Platies
Mollies and Limias.
Called "Livebearer Disease", this is
often why many have trouble keeping
livebearers. There is only one drug that
is effective at treating it -
Levamisole hydrochloride
Levamisole is also totally effective at
eradicating camallanus worms and
other minor pathogens.
This Drug is not Available from your
Local Fish Store. Various sized
packets are offered below with a
measuring spoon. A 10 gram packet
will treat 500 gallons. See more info
HERE
and in the right column below.
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Sodium
Thiosulfate
The Original Dechlorination
Product! 1 lb. will treat
many thousands of .gallons!
Just $10 + $8 Shipping!
See More Info
HERE.
Email for Non US Shipments
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With an email to
selectaquatics@gmail.com,
please include your ZIP Code, I will send
you
back a quote to ship 2 pair out to you
following
the Availability Video posting. The
Availability of each of the other Species
at Select Aquatics is listed below and
HERE.
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Rapid Grow Aquarium Plant
Fertilizer
Rapid Grow Aquarium Plant
Fertilizer
Mixed
here from quality
Hydroponics ingredients,
adapted for aquarium use
with the manufacturers.
One container will treat
44,000 gallons! Dose 1-2x
monthly. Perfectly harmless
to fish and inverts, with
dramatic plant growth.
$30 includes shipping
for 1
container.
Email for Non US Shipments
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All Hatchers are tested for 8 hrs.
prior to shipment to catch any
leaks or imperfections. Email
selectaquatics@gmail.com to Order. |
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As Each
Species Becomes Available, a
"Select Aquatics Available"
YouTube Video
will be Posted Announcing Orders Will be
taken to be Shipped. Please Subscribe to
the
Select Aquatics Youtube Channel, and
with Notifications checked, You will then
Receive a Notification when the videos are
Posted
Greg Sage, Owner, Select Aquatics
To Order Fish,
Multiple Hard Goods Items,
or International non-Fish items, Please email
selectaquatics@gmail.com
for a Quote.
Thank You! |
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Fall
2023
Updated 9-22-2023
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The Levamisole
continues to be in
good supply, and shipped
on the
business day following
payment,
often on the same day, if
payment
is made early enough.
Order by using the
payment
buttons to the right, or
email
selectaquatics@gmail.com.
for a quote with the
payment information
to ship 3-5
Day Priority out to you.
Thank you!
I generally respond to my
emails within
24 hours, and do have spots
available
to come out to
speak to your local club in
2024. If
you would like to explore making
this
happen, please email me at
selectaquatics@gmail.com,
and we can discuss it!
The lineup of
species at selectaquatics
and the status of each of
those species
can be seen
HERE.
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CHEAPER SHIPPING
OPTIONS!!
The high quality thermal boxes that
I have been using are being discontinued,
and I have been obtaining other boxes
sized to ship two pair, USPS overnight,
for as little as $65-$70, depending
on your ZIP Code. The New Boxes
will be used to Ship Groups of Six
2-4 Month Old Unsexed, or Two Pair.
The Zoogoneticus
tequilas
have been
selling well, with roughly 30 young pairs still
Available. All Goodeid Pairs are $30 per pair.
Since mentioning here that the
Ilyodon furcidens
were about to be available for sale, I have
received many emails, and the stock ready
to be sold was bought up quickly, before the
Availability Video could even be posted.
There were 25 pairs available of them. This
year's breeding season is about to start for them,
and I have once again expanded the number of
breeding groups, to hopefully have a larger number
available, and to be able to keep them in stock
(similar to the
Zoogoneticus tequilas above) as
their numbers build out over the next 2-3
months.
Three new batches of the
Selectively Bred
(since 2010) Odessa Barbs
have been
started, and young at the 2-4 Month Old
Size should be Available in 3-5 weeks.
When Ready to Ship, roughly 500 will be
Available.
The highly colored
Xenotoca doadrioi
are
doing well, and five large breeding groups
should have groups of 2-4 Month Old
Unsexed or young pairs available by early
spring.
The Limia islai are in
limited supply, and the
Ameca splendens are
preparing to drop fry,
and should be available in groups of
2-4 Months Old Unsexed by this coming
spring.
The Xiphophorus
Montezumas continue to
adjust to the conditions here, as their second
generation is starting, and I am anticipating
they will be roughly another year before they
will be available.
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Important News On The Green Dragons!! --
Select Aquatics will be focusing on getting
back to improving the
Green Dragon line,
the Green Dragons were Developed here
starting in 2010. I will be offering "Breeder Select"
top quality young sexed pairs for sale as soon
as they are ready, mid to late spring 2024.
The current stock coming up are spectacular
with consistent, extensive finnage, and an all
over Forest/ Emerald Green Color.
The 1.5 - 2.5 inch Unsexed will be bred and
shipped from a second facility and bred by
someone I have been working with for about 3
years. More information on this will be posted
as Young Plecos become available for sale late
2024, early 2025. I am working to have young
pairs available soon, by late spring, 2024.
Due to the expense of raising them (I feed
180 lbs. of Green Beans here per month, plus
high quality carnivorous foods) producing roughly
160 fish from generally around 1000 raised per year),
the per pair cost will be kept low at $350 a pair,
which will include 1-2 Day USPS free shipping.
Those not sold are shortfins, albinos and those
of poor quality.
Orders of 2 pair or more can be done as well,
depending on demand.
With the Longfin Green Dragon Young Sexed
Pairs, I will set up a wait list for those
serious to
purchase these, and will contact you when
they are ready to be shipped. However, the
1-5 - 2.5 inch unsexed have always sold out quickly,
and I cannot estimate the number of young pairs I
will have available at this time, and fish will be
shipped to those on the waitlist in the order they
are received.
As the 1.5 - 2.5 inch Unsexed plecos grow out,
and a date when they will be predicted to be ready
for sale is known, the contact information for the
other
breeder will be posted here, and he will be ready to
start responding to emails. We are anticipating that
he should have fish available by late fall 2024,
spring of 2025.
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Greater Availability of Species!!
When
Select Aquatics began, I posted
the letter to the right to all serious
hobbyists, to consider taking on some
of these exceptionally rare species,
maintaining them long-term, and
distributing them to others, so they do
not continue to disappear from the hobby.
A few have come forward, and I was
recently very pleased to tour
Ed's Aquatic Exotics, outside of
Pittsburgh, to find that Ed is working
very hard to keep and maintain a
number of species no longer carried
by Select Aquatics. Known through
emails as we share the same concern
for optimum fish health, his lines are
well established and robust.. Check
out his site from the link to the left
and HERE - -
EdsAquaticExotics.
I have also
added my friend Marshall
that has been supplying packing supplies
to Select Aquatics for the past 14 years,
most importantly providing breather bags
and heat packs, and his site can be visited
HERE.
Please
check out the other links to
the left and I will be adding more
recommendations in coming weeks!
Canadian Customers:
USPS has reconfigured Canadian
shipping.
Levamisole is shipped regularly, but my
fertilizer has sometimes been delayed
by Canadian Customs. (But did get
delivered.)
There are 2 ways to ship the levamisole
(10, 20 or 52 grams) and they are:
First Class - Up to 3 weeks -
$15 + Medication cost
3-5 Day Priority - $45 + Medication
Thank you!
Greg Sage
selectaquatics.com
selectaquatics@gmail.com
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Levamisole hydrochloride
This is the best treatment
available for parasites,
worms, and "Livebearer
Disease" See
more HERE.
Effective and immediate.
1/4 teaspoon will Dose a
100 gallon Tank Once.
A Treatment is 2 Doses,
24 hrs. apart.
Dosage Information
HERE
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Vinegar Eel Starter Cultures
For Egg Layer Fry
Taken
from cultures
maintained here for many
years, they are used here.
to raise primarily the Odessa
Barbs, and can be used
for most any egg layer fry that
are not sensitive to acidity.
Please email.
selectaquatics@gmail.com
with your ZIP Code for a Quote
to ship a culture out to you!
$15 + USPS 3-5 Day Priority
Shipping .
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Levamisole
HCL Kit
Includes:
> Light Protective Case mm
> Light Proof Zip Lock Bag
>Levamisole Measuring Spoon
10 gram Kit and Med- $25
20 gram Kit and Med.- $40
52 gram Med + Spoon = $63.50
Above Prices Include Shipping |
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Microworm Cultures for
Young Fry, especially
Egg-Layers!
Email
selectaquatics@gmail.com
for a quote to ship a Starter
Culture out
to you!
$15 + $10 USPS Shipping. |
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Please! Non - US
Customers!
Email
selectaquatics@gmail.com
for a Quote as International
Postage Costs for Hard
Goods Items will Differ.
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Wanna know what the Levamisole
Measuring Spoon and Case guy is
Working On Next?
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Mr. Sage provided me with the
best experience I could've asked for. The wonderful fish he
breeds are priced
very affordably, and are super high quality.
He always responded to our emails swiftly and was extremely
helpful with any questions and concerns we had.
His packaging of the fish was phenomenal, and all (even the
extras!) arrived across the country in excellent
condition!
They are beautiful, healthy, and active. it was incredibly
stress-free as I knew I could trust the process.
Despite a small delay due to the USPS, Greg quickly assured us
that the fish would be fine.
Mr.
Sage has a great reputation in the livebearer hobby, and I can
say he has totally lived up to that
reputation for me and I'm looking forward to ordering from him
again! I seriously can't recommend him
enough.
Thank you for all you do for the hobby, Mr. Sage!
Christina K. NY
First, off thank you for the beautiful fish. Every time I
receive a new species from you I am always surprised by
how much more beautiful they are in real life versus the picture. The
Alfaro cultratus you sent for example are far more
stunning than any picture I have ever seen of them. That includes Google
image searches.
Jay G., The
Woodlands, TX
Hi Greg,
The
Odessa barbs are here, in GREAT shape, and currently
'acclimatizing' in a 5 gallon bucket with my own
graduated drip system.
Thank
you very, VERY much for your attention and care and patience
with me throughout this process. I've been
receiving fish via express mail for 30 years but your packing is a whole
new universe from what I've ever experienced.
Thank you
again for the 'bonus' fish which I counted as 8 but my wife
insists is 9. She also could not believe the packing
or condition of the fish. Also, thank you for the
anticipated forwarding of the rebate check for the excess
shipping charge.
When everything stabilizes, I'll forward some pics.
Again this has been the best fish purchasing experience I've
ever had.
Ed D. Rio verde, AZ
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Select Aquatics is a Licensed Animal
Care Facility in Colorado.
Contact Select Aquatics by emailing
selectaquatics@gmail.com
Select Aquatics - 167 McAfee Circle, Erie, CO 80516
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