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Double Threat Blackwater Kit....IAL / Alder Cones

Item #1306201899

Current Auction Time: Wed May 8 19:12:03 2024

		Final:	$12.00		First Bid	$12.00
		Time left	00:00		# of Bids	1 (bid history)
		Started	May 20 2011 - 08:51:39 PM		Location	Benton KY 42025 United States
		Ended	May 23 2011 - 08:51:39 PM Auction Closed
		Seller	Fishguy_1955 (5838/5869)
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		High Bidder	Doubleblackangel (36/37)
		Payment	Money Orders/Cashiers Check, Personal Checks, See Item Description, PayPal
		Shipping	Will Ship to United States or Canada Only Seller Pays Shipping, See Item Description

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Description

Twenty Mixed Size Highest Quality Organic Indian Almond Leaves

Terminalia catappa - Ketapang

PLUS

100+ Alder Cones

Click Here To See All My Other Items And Save By Combining Shipping

The Fishguy has been importing Indian Almond leaves from one of the best known and most reliable organic providers in Asia. I have come into several kilos of the mixed size leaves pictured below. While I often offer the cosmetically perfect, large Grade A leaves, the leaves pictured below are from the very same trees and supplier, but are cosmetically imperfect, meaning they have tears or small holes in the leaves. Other than that, they are identical in every respect to the perfect Grade A's with the only difference being that these cost quite a bit less!!!

 These are in fact the leaves that I use personally in my fish room, and I can attest to the fact that my bettas are completely unable to differentiate a leaf with an imperfection from a perfectly shaped leaf!

With my leaves you have the advantage of getting Asia's best quality leaves in a few days instead of a few weeks, and there are no worries with potential customs or shipping mishaps.

While these last, you are getting a nice portion of twenty leaves such as those shown below for one of the best prices around.

Used by most professional breeders of Asian black water fish, these leaves have been naturally sun and shade dried. They have never been exposed to herbicides and have also never been washed or treated with anything other than pure clear water. These leaves are all organic and they have not been treated with a chemical wash before shipping. Half the time the poison is in the cure!

If you are looking you are probably already aware of the properties of these leaves, but I'll enumerate for those who may need more info.

• They are a natural aid to spawning for Bettas and apparently all blackwater fish. Read that to be organic Viagra for these species.

• They release a natural brown dye that contains both humic and tannic acids having strong antibacterial and antifungal properties that will help keep the eggs from falling prey to fungus.

• Once your fish have spawned, these natural substances help heal spawning wounds and protect the fry from opportunistic infections.

I use one or two small/medium or one large leaf in a ten gallon spawning tank which has a noticeable effect on both water quality and spawning activity. As the leaf ages and breaks down it will aid in the growth of protozoans for the fry to feed on. After a couple spawnings your spawning tank will be a micro eco-system of your fishes natural environment. Complete with fry food at hand.

They are also extremely beneficial for invertebrates such as Asian shrimp - and most shrimp in the hobby are - who also come from this environment. I have also had great results reported by killi breeders who use them as an anti-fungal when water incubating eggs.

Included also in this auction are 100+ Alder Cones.

Here is what a major Asian Killi breeder had to say:

"Your alder cones worked perfectly !!!   I have been using them for spawning many kinds of killifishes.  Almost every eggs was not infected by fungus. It is a great surprise.  Thanks for selling good products."

Offered here are 100+ Alder Cones that are used in the same way as Indian Almond leaves as an anti-fungal for the incubating eggs of all species.

 

They have a milder impact on ph than the above mentioned and will help prevent your eggs from fungus as they incubate.  No treatment is 100% but I have found these to work, and to work organically without the sometimes harmful effects of chemicals.  Here are some links with other aquarists discussing their use:

http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=19561&p=142088

http://www.angelfish.net/VBulletin/archive/index.php?t-16207.html

http://www.petshrimp.com/discussions/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3012

 

I prefer PayPal, but personal checks and postal money orders are also accepted.

Your order includes free First Class Mail shipping.  Within the US/PR Priority Mail will be $2.00 more.  If you are outside the US or Puerto Rico please email for possible additional shipping charges before bidding.  Canada is +$1.00 US

Thanks for viewing our auction and Take Care.  

Paul P.

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Bid History:

Bidders		Bid Time		Bid		Comments
Doubleblackangel (36/37)		May 23 2011 - 12:59:31 PM		$12.00

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