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Select Aquatics
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Select Aquatics has been
shipping rare and specialty
livebearers to hobbyists,
public aquariums and
research facilities for
17 years.
Today, we focus on the
popular selectively bred
species developed here,
that serve to introduce
Goodeids and other types
to hobbyists, while still
offering the highest
quality, pure wild
stock of other rare and
endangered species.
All of the species currently
offered, and their availability,
will be kept up-to-date on
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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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NOTICE
To Online Buyers!
I have been Contacted that there are Fish Sellers
Online Offering Species as "Greg Sage Line",
and they are not, while Charging More for Them.
If You Wish to Purchase a Fish with this Claim,
Simply Email Me a Photo of the Fish or the Ad,
and in Most Cases I Can Verify whether the Fish
is from Here, or Recently Originated from
Here, to Help Provide you with the Best Quality
Fish. Greg Sage, selectaquatics@gmail.com
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Top Quality Livebearers
Available from Other
Breeders
Odessa Barbs
(Canadian Only)
odessa@fishez.ca
Pure Endler's Livebearers
The Endlers Shop
Many Other Goodeids!!
EdsAquaticExotics**
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
Fishkeeping Tips
Articles,
Handouts and Videos
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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"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
Being Built Out
Updates On All Other Species
and Shipping Info Below |
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Zoogonecticus tequila
Rio Teuchitlan, Mexico
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Check
Out The Youtube Availability
Video
HERE |
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Email
selectaquatics@gmail.com
for a Quote with Payment
Info and
Next Available Day to
Ship. Be
sure to include your Zip
Code! |
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Pethia padamya "Odessa"
Selectively Bred since 2010
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Breeder's
Discussion Podcast!
Hosted by M&C
Aquatics, Ed Moats,
who runs Eds Aquatic Exotics,
Mitchell Broome, who has bred
many species considered
impossible, and Greg Sage of
Select Aquatics discuss the
hobby,
Breeding and Fishroom maintenance.
The Podcast can be seen HERE. |
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Temporarily Sold Out Will Be
Available in Groups
of Six 2-4
Month Old Unsexed
Soon!
Email
selectaquatics@gmail.com
for a Quote
with Payment Info and
Next
Available Day to Ship. Be
sure to
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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Ameca splendens, Rio Teuchitlan
Colony Bred at Select Aquatics
since 2004. |
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Email
selectaquatics@gmail.com
for a Quote with Payment Info and
Next Available Day to Ship. Be
sure to include your Zip Code! |
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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 above
right, 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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Limia islai "Tiger"
Lake Miragoane, Haiti |
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Email
selectaquatics@gmail.com
for a Quote with Payment Info and
Next Available Day to Ship. Be
sure to include your Zip Code! |
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I generally respond to my emails within
24 hours, and do have
spots available
to come out to speak to your local club in
2026-7. If you would like to explore making
this happen, please email me at
selectaquatics@gmail.com,
and we can discuss it!
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Fall 2026
Updated
8- 23- 2026 |
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It has been a busy summer at selectaquatics,
and the room has
been restructured to focus
on the continued
selective breeding of both
the
Odessa barbs, and the Ilyodon
furcidens.
There are currently
three lines of the furcidens
established here,
divided out from the original
line about five
years ago. Occupying over
roughly 25 tanks, I
have been selecting and
crossing them for
the best individuals, and
expect to have them
breeding consistently
enough to offer to
be shipped by this coming
spring. A block and
new photos will be posted
above for them as
soon as they are ready to
be shipped.
The
Odessas are doing very well, and I am
about to post a
video on the new automated
system built to
spawn them, that has also been
working very well,
and a group that will be
ready to ship by
mid-September is currently
growing out.
The
tequilas, splendens,
and Tiger Limias
also continue to do
well and are available
this fall.
With the set up
focused on selective breeding,
I recently
discovered a line of swordtail that
I had selectively
bred over 5 years in the 1990s,
a fish I had
thought was long gone. I had isolated
the genetic large
morph form of the xiphophorus
nezahualcoyotl,
producing a very large, robust
and spectacular
fish. (Photo below) The "Nezzies"
are generally a
fairly diminuitive, though colorful
swordtail, and only
rarely seen in the hobby,
generally only in
the tanks of specialty aquarists.
This morph had been maintained by one
aquarist for over
25 years, and they have
never been seen by
the hobby. I will be
driving across
country in a couple weeks
to obtain a second
breeding group, and
though the line
continues to produce large
morph individuals,
it will need to be
stabilized and
again made consistent,
while selectively
breeding for the best
marked and colored
individuals. I will not
have them available
for sale for at least
2-3 years, but am
working to introduce a
new selectively
bred swordtail species to
my lineup.
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After 17
Years of Shipping
with Every Shipping Service-
Here is Why
I Continue to Ship USPS
Overnight
Express, for Best Cost
and
Safest Fish Shipping
It Really is About the
Fish...
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An Update on the Green Dragon Plecos.
A little over two years ago I shipped a number
of my best quality
Green Dragons to a friend
with a large
fishroom that I have known for
many years, and is
the person that had been
advertised above as
selling the Poecilia velifera.
He had been
breeding and shipping the velifera
for me for about
six years. We had hoped that he
would have fish at
the 2-4 inch Unsexed size by
this past spring.
He recently contacted me, and
unfortunately he
has had some equipment failures,
and has had to
close down his fishroom. So he will
no longer be
providing the Poecilia velifera or the
Green Dragons. At
this point, with over thousands
of both of these
species having been shipped out to
the hobby, I do not
know of anyone breeding and
shipping either of
these today. If you are, please
let me know, and I
may post you above as
havng these fish
available!
Greg Sage, Select Aquatics
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This is a shot
of the original xiphophorus nezahualcoyotl large
morph form that was
developed by myself in the late 1990s.
This incredible
fish was 3 - 3.5 inches long, and unlike anything
else seen in the
hobby. Though thought to be long gone,
I have been able to
re-obtain them from someone that has been
keeping them for
over 25 years! I am obtaining breeding
stock, and the line
has lost its consistency, which needs to be
reestablished,
something that will take me roughly 2-3 years.
This fish is not
currently available! But I will be working on it,
and posting updates
on their progress as with the other
species here, in
upcoming months.
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Latest Select Aquatics Fishroom Video!
The first Fishroom Video since 2019 was just
posted, and with encouragement from various
customers, I worked with a big band ensemble,
performing a solo piece arranged and recorded
specifically for this video. You can let me know
what you think! I spent most of my life touring
and performing as a trumpet player, and it has
been a pleasant experience to combine that
with Select Aquatics!
You can see the video
HERE!
Select Aquatics
Presents -
Trumpet Fishroom Tour
2025
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WARNING to Goodeid Buyers!!
Please Read!!
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, sometimes when exposed
for as little as
just a couple days. .
I answer questions each day from hobbyists looking for
information on keeping these fish,
and continue to be contacted by hobbyists that have bought
goodeids from a couple well
known internet sellers, who maintain them at inappropriate water
parameters, such as high
temperatures, inappropriate pH, and outlier Hardness, resulting
in fish that arrive alive, but
are not healthy, and/or will not breed as a result of their
previous care. Be sure to ask your
seller before purchase if they are maintaing their fish appropriately!
Temoeratures can be no higher than 76- 78 degrees, pH should be
roughly 7.2 - 8.0, with
100 - 250 ppm hardness. One prominent seller maintains his fish
at 79 degrees, 8.4 hardness
and 300 ppm hardness! They may arrive alive, and may survive for
you, but you may never see
reproduction.
Efforts by myself to contact that seller with customer concerns
have gone unanswered. Choose
sellers that both know well and take pride in the fish they
keep, sellers that produce healthy and
appropriately priced stock. If they claim to only have a few
fish, and charge two or three times
what I charge for them here, and don't respond to emails when
asking for information, then you
must seek out another source, for the benefit of the fish, so
they will do well and breed for you.
Do not assume that because someone is selling these fish, or has
posted a few youtube videos
that they know about the fish they are selling!
The sellers listed above on this homepage know Goodeids, their
proper care, with many years
experience keeping these fish. Knowing everything they can is
their first priority, while always
priced appropriately, with much information and genuine concern
that the fish you receive will
do well for you.
Thank you -
Greg Sage, selectaquatics.com
selectaquatics@gmail.com
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A Quick
Word about the Past, Present and Future of Select Aquatics!
I began breeding and selling my own lines of
guppies to local pet shops from my bedroom
in eighth grade. I
served as Chairman of the American Livebearer Association from
2000- 2004, and
Select Aquatics was started in 2008, after selling fish at ALA
conventions.
When chairman, predictions of many of these fish
disappearing from the hobby came up
frequently, and
species were starting to disappear. The goal of Select Aquatics
was to obtain
many of the most
highly desired fish, build them out, and offer them to the hobby
so that they
were not lost, as
affordably as possible. My rates were set to meet overhead, and
I have
never drawn an
income from Select Aquatics - Profits were simply put back into
better foods,
improved equipment,
better tanks, etc.
When I would get to
a point where after many hundreds, or over a thousand were
distributed
out to the hobby
(such as with the Xiphophorus Montezuma and the Poecilia
velifera) and
shipped, I then
moved on, providing tank space for new species to build out and
distribute.
30 species at a
time were maintained and shipped from here for many years.
Recently I
have cut back, so
that I can provide desired species in greater numbers, more
consistently
throughout the year. It is then up to the hobby for people to
breed them, and
offer them for sale
at sites such as www.Aquabid.com, so they stay in the hobby.
I have always
enjoyed selective breeding, and have introduced six new lines to
the hobby
over the past 30
years, and with the exception of the
Ilyodon furcidens,
which is not
rare or endangered
in the wild or the hobby, I have never selectively bred
any of the
Goodeids or the
rarer fish here, though it is commonly done in
Europe, where many
beautiful varieties
of the Characodon audax, for example, are available. Many of the
populations here
have been breeding consistently, fully acclimated to this water
and
are fairly
homogenous genetically, breeding at their potential since 2002 -
2004.
After shipping over
2000 Longfin Green Dragons
out to the hobby since 2010, I will no
longer be carrying
them, but am building out species such as the
Zoogoneticus tequila
that are
exceptionally rare, and not widely available in the hobby. I
plan to continue working
on the other
species that were selectively developed, such as the
Odessa barbs and the
Ilyodon furcidens, while
continuing to focus on the pure lines of the wild livebearers
that
continue to do well
here.
Over the past 15
years, Selectaquatics has now carried 46 different species, and
the
care information
on each of those species, from when they were being sold here,
is
maintained at the
link in the left-hand column above. If you maintain any of these
fish,
please breed them
and distribute them to others! If you do not, many of these
species,
even some of those
listed above, could be gone from the hobby within a few years,
and
it is no longer
possible to simply go to their home countries and collect them,
as it once
was.
Thank you for
considering Select Aquatics, and I continue to respond to emails
each
morning, discussing
species and fish problems, and at this point, after over 75k
emails,
I have probably
written with most of you! I continue to speak to clubs each
year, and if
I am ever in your
area, I will look forward to meeting you!
Greg Sage
selectaquatics.com
selectaquatics@gmail.com
See "What
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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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