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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Site Index |
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See New Shipping Info
and Status
of Every Species in Narrative Below! |
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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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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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Top Quality
Livebearers
Available from Other
Breeders
Odessa Barbs
(Canadian Only)
odessa@fishez.ca
Poecilia
velifera
azulaquatics20@gmail.com
Temporarily
Not Shipping
Due to damage from
Helene
Many Other Goodeids!!
EdsAquaticExotics**
Ilyodon
furcidens
David Ramsaur
david.ramsaur@gmail.com
Breather Bags / Heat Packs
Marshall at AQPKG.com
If you
are personally breeding
and shipping Livebearer fish,
especially if once carried by
Select Aquatics, you can be
listed above, if you meet
the qualifications listed HERE.
Please email me at
selectaquatics@gmail.com
if you are interested!
These listings are maintained
by Select Aquatics of breeders
that maintain quality stock
with prompt, friendly Customer
Service and professional,
careful, overnight shipping.
If there is ever a Problem,
I want to know.
Thank you!
Greg Sage
selectaquatics@gmail.com
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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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Fish
Available Now
Updated Shipping Info
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Zoogonecticus tequila
Rio Teuchitlan, Mexico
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Check Out The Youtube Availability
Video
HERE |
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Young Sexed Pairs are 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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Ameca splendens
The Butterfly Goodeid
Rio Teuchitlan |
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Available
in groups of Six 2-4
Month Old Unsexed
See Cost and Shipping Rates Below
Email
selectaquatics@gmail.com
for a Quote and Next Available Day
to Ship. Include your Zip Code! |
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The
Fertilizer and Levamisole
we use here to Maintain
Select
Aquatics
Fish and Plants-
Available for Sale and
Shipped the Next Day! |
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Aponogeton crispus "Purple"
Spectacular Centerpiece Plant
from Sri Lanka
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There is no Webpage for this plant.
3-5 inch
starter plants available in
Limited supply.
2 Starter Plants Including 3-5 Day
Priority Postage - $25.
These do require being in a soil
substrate, moderate to high light.
Email selectaquatics@gmail.com |
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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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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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Fall 2024
Updated
10-15-24 |
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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! (Button
problems fixed).
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!
With an email to
selectaquatics@gmail.com,
please include your ZIP Code, I will send
you
back a quote to ship fish out to you
following
their Availability Video posting. |
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If your
organization would
like an in-depth, informative
and entertaining presentation
on Livebearers, Selective
Breeding or other topics,
Greg Sage is available to
come out and speak to
your club.
Click
HERE for current
talks
and
more information.
Please
contact us at
selectaquatics@gmail.com
for
available dates.
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If you
are personally breeding
and shipping the types of fish
that could or were once
carried by Select Aquatics,
you can be listed, if you meet
the qualifications listed HERE.
Please email me at
selectaquatics@gmail.com
to make that happen!
These listings are maintained
by Select Aquatics, of
breeders that maintain
quality standards with
responsive Customer Service,
and fish that are professionally
Shipped.
If there is a Problem, I would
like to know about it.
Thank you!
Greg Sage
selectaquatics.com
selectaquatics@gmail.com
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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 any videos
are Posted
To Order Fish, Multiple Hard
Goods Items, or International
non-Fish items, Please email
selectaquatics@gmail.com
for a Quote.
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Fish Updates, Shipping
Info and a Warning
to
Goodeid Buyers!
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I will ship when
temperatures are below
85 degrees for
Goodeids, and 90 degrees
for other species, here and at your
destination. Your quote will include
a shipping date that may need to be
changed as your shipping date
approaches, if temperatures are
innapropriate. I will keep in close
touch
with you until your fish arrive safely.
Fish are Currently $50 for a Group of
Six 2-4 Month Old Unsexed OR $30
a Pair in an order of two Pair. Some
fish are only sold in Sexed Pairs.
Shipping is USPS Overnight Express,
and Shipping a Group of 6 Unsexed
or 2 Pair will be $75 - $90, depending
on your Zip Code.
Email
selectaquatics@gmail.com
for a quote or to discuss the fish
shown here, or that are being built out.
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Fishroom Improvements
A Recent Equipment Problem caused
losses in 3 of the 8 Breeding Tanks of
furcidens, and I have been wrestling with
raising my doadrioi numbers. So I have
re-opened a number of tanks here to work
as water change reservoirs, to provide
only aged, seasoned water for changes,
and anticipate that should boost overall
health and help prevent losses from
future related equipment issues.
Ilyodon furcidens
(Trout Goodeid)-
The furcidens are doing well, but I did
lose many older fry recently. Roughly 150
are growing out, to be sorted for color and
markings once they start sexing out.
I am considering posting a video on their
progress, as I have done for the Green
Dragons, over the next couple months to
show where they are. My goal with their
reproduction is to continue building them
out, and eventually have them available
more regularly.
Keep checking here for updates, and
if I do put together a YouTube video to
be posted this fall on their progress, I will
post the link to the video here. Thank you
for your patience!
Ameca splendens
(Butterfly Goodeid)
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The Ameca splendens have done well
this spring, and a limited number of groups
of Six 2-4 Month Old Unsexed are available
at this time.
Ataeniobious toweri (the Blue Tailed
Goodeid)-
They continue to do well, and
limited groups of young pairs and groups
of six 2-4 Months Old Unsexed are
currently available. After sales over most
of this year, I have pulled down their photo
block from above, to start letting their
numbers recover, but limited orders can
be shipped at this time.
Zoogonotecus tequila-
These are doing very well, and a number
of young pairs are available at this time..
Due to the reintroduction effort
discussed in their recent Availability
Video (Select Aquatics Available,
Z. tequila 2024), the Z. tequila has
had their population designation
changed from Extinct In The Wild
to Threatened. That is Very Good
News!
Pethia padamya
"Odessa Barbs"-
Roughly 350 were sold from those
bred this spring, and a limited number
of just sexed out young pairs are being
shipped.
A new batch to be bred is being
prepared, to hopefully have groups of
Six 2-4 Month Old Unsexed available
once again next spring.
Xenotoca
doadrioi-
One of my favorite fish here, efforts
are being made to get their numbers
back up. They will be one of the 7
species I will focus on here, and like
the furcidens, hope to have them more
regularly available, as the Tequilas and
Toweri are now.
Limia Islai (The Tiger
Limia) -
The Tigers have begun to recover from
heavy sales last fall, and a number of new
young should be available in groups of 6
unsexed by spring of 2025.
The Alfaro cultratus (The Knife
Livebearer)-
I have not sold these in a while, and have
started to build these back up, with groups
of new fry that should be ready to ship in
groups of two pair by early spring.
Longfin Green
Dragon, Private Waitlist
Video
Showing all of the
Green Dragons,
this video was sent to waitlist
customers prior to their being
released later this fall. Open sale
of the Longfin Green Dragons will
be advertised here as soon as the
Waitlist Fish are shipped.
I will keep their progress up to
date in this spot as they become
ready to be released as sexed
pairs.
The Green Dragon Waitlist Video
can only be seen from this link
HERE.
Neocaridina Shrimp-
Always in good supply, groups of
20 ($25) can be shipped for roughly $60
shipping, but can also be shipped in
groups of 10 ($10) with most Fish orders,
taking the place of the extra. These have
been reverted to their wild form, are
incredibly hardy and excellent at cleaning
algea and organic debris.
If you have any questions regarding
anything you see here, wish to place an
order, or just want an answer to a fish
question, please email me at
selectaquatics@gmail.com, and I
generally respond to all of my emails
within 24 hours.
Thank you!
Greg Sage
selectaquatics.com
selectaquatics@gmail.com
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WARNING to
Goodeid Buyers!!
Goodeids require that they be maintained and bred
at temperatures below 76°- 77°. Many Goodeid
species, when exposed to higher temperatures,
generally around 80° or above, can be sterilized
permanently when exposed to warmer temperatures,
sometime for as little as just a couple days. .
I have been contacted by numerous customers that
have bought my Ilyodon furcidens and other Goodeids
from certain well known sellers, who maintain them at
high temperatures, inappropriate pH, and extreme
Hardness. After a year, fish bought from them do not
breed as a result of their care before they were
purchased. Be sure to check with your seller that they
are familiar with keeping and breeding Goodeids, and
are keeping them in appropriate conditions!
The sellers listed above on this homepage know
Goodeids, where proper care and knowing about the
fish is their first priority, and they will do their
best
to provide you with their healthiest, best quality
stock.
Numerous efforts by myself to contact the sellers
selling
these poorly maintained fish, to discuss this issue
with
them has not led to a response.
The ideal water parameters for most Goodeids is a
pH of roughly 7.2 - 7.8, temperatures of 60°- 74°,
but many species can handle up to 76°- 77°. And
hardness should be roughly 125 - 250 ppm. I have
heard stories of sellers maintaining these at pH
readings of up to 8.4, hardness of 300 ppm and
temperatures of 79° - 80°, which guarantees that
the stock you receive will have difficulty breeding
or living a full life span. When buying from another
seller, simply ask before you purchase to make
sure they are being cared for properly!
Greg Sage, selectaquatics.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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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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Please! Non -
US Customers!
Email
selectaquatics@gmail.com
for a Quote as International
Postage Costs for Hard
Goods Items will Differ.
Thank you!
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Wanna know what the Levamisole
Measuring Spoon and Case guy is
Working On Next?
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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 above
right and I will be adding more contacts
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 does get
delivered.)
There are 2 ways to ship the levamisole
(10, 20 or 52 grams) and they are:
First Class - Up to 3 weeks -
10g, 20g Kits- $17 + Medication cost
52 gram Packets- $24 + Medication Cost
3-5 Day Priority - $45 + Medication
Thank you!
Greg Sage
selectaquatics.com
selectaquatics@gmail.com
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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
See "What
Do Customers Think of Select Aquatics" Here |
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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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