Current Auction Time: Sat May 18 02:35:28 2024

		Final:	$52.00		First Bid	$1.00
		Time left	00:00		# of Bids	10 (bid history)
		Started	May 20 2010 - 02:08:57 PM		Location	Kenmore NY 14217 United States
		Ended	May 26 2010 - 09:08:56 PM Auction Closed
		Seller	Lotsoffish (6423/6442)
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		High Bidder	Rwk (263/263)
		Payment	Money Orders/Cashiers Check, PayPal
		Shipping	Will Ship to United States Only Seller Pays Shipping,

Hello Folks! Man it's a nice day here in NY and I have all the doors and windows open plus I am cranking out some real good tunes right now. I love afternoons like this. As some of you know I am a real big fan of those Java rice fish I sell here once in a while so I am going to take an hour or so and really build a nice auction for them right now. Ain't my job awesome? I am sort of expanding on my business right now and have been juggling a whole bunch of responsibilities around and burning the candle at both ends most days so I am going to take a little break and spend a little time making this auction. Anyway, if you care to read this entire auction I think you might end up giving these awesome fish a try. They REALLY are very cool fish to work with and I have sent these fish out as "free bee's" to some folks and they actually end up getting totally in to them too. They are sort of addicting to work with actually. I currently have these Java rice fish, Oryzias Melastigmas oh and that's another thing. These are NOT Oryzias javanicus. Because I call them Java rice fish a lot of folks make the mistake of thinking they are Oryzias javanicus. These are Oryzias Melastigmas. Keep that in mind if you discuss these fish with somebody. Like I was saying, I currently have these Java rice fish in 3 different tanks in the fish room. Actually make that 2 tanks and a one gallon glass jar. LOL! I have been raising some fry in a jar just cuz I like screwing around doing wacky stuff like that in my fish room sometimes. As far as egg layers go I think these are one of the coolest Egg layers somebody could work with and I have sort of got breeding these down to a science. This first tank you are looking at is where all the breeding is taking place- What you are looking at is simply a 20 gallon long with a bunch of floating plants in it and a large group of Java rice fish swimming around underneath those floating plants. I have a sponge filter in it and the tank is running at about 82 degrees. Java rice fish like it warm. Next I am going to show you a close up if some fry I photographed in those plants. These fry are VERY tiny and I can't even see them at this size with out wearing my reading glasses and using a flash light to light them up with. I use that clip on light to keep those plants alive and it allows me to see these tiny fry better. This tank has about 60 fry like you see in the photo's in it right now. Those fry will not leave the cover of those plants. They stay in those plants right below the surface 24 hours a day right now. I also had a bunch of wrestling half beaks in this tank the past few weeks so all the fry these Java rice fish were producing were getting eaten by the Half beaks, but that's OK. That was actually my plan at the time and it worked out fine for everybody except those rice fish fry. LOL! I knew as soon as I pulled the last one of those Half beaks out I would almost instantly start seeing these fry so I wasn't worried about it. By the way, it take about 14-18 days for Java rice fish eggs to hatch which is a long time for eggs to incubate but that's normal for these particular fish. Java rice fish DO NOT eat their own eggs so the long incubation period really isn't a problem. Java rice fish ALMOST never eat their own fry either UNLESS you have absolutely no cover what so ever at the surface. With no surface cover I seldom end up having fry survive and I assume the adult rice fish do eat them but I have NEVER actually seen one eat one of their own fry so it also could be the fry won't hang out at the surface and they just end up starving trying to hide somewhere near the bottom of a tank.This is another photo of what the top of this tank looks like right now- This is a photo of 3 Males. The way you sex these fish is by looking at the anal fins. Males anal fins ALWAYS have that saw tooth look to them and females have a much smoother anal fin like you can see in the bottom photo. That female actually has her eggs dangling out of her in that photo. The first time I saw that "bunch of glass grapes" dangling out of one of my females my heart skipped a beat I thought that was so cool. She will swim around like that for about 24-48 hours while all the males in the tank go crazy displaying to her and each other in an attempt to be the lucky guy who gets to mate with her before she decides to "hang" those eggs in the floating plants. How frigging cool is that folks? Now what will happen is since you will have a group of these fish in your tank you will just keep seeing more and more of these fry at the surface of your tank each day and even though there will be a certain degree of live foods swimming around in those plants they will end up eating all that stuff very rapidly so you have to start feeding those tiny fry right away. I have found that by far the easiest food to feed these tiny fry is 05-50 Micron Golden pearls and I am going to send you a GOOD supply of those in this auction too. I am also going to send you some Oak leaves because adding them to your tank will create a LOT of live foods for these fry to feed on also. Lastly, and this is IMPORTANT for you to know. For "unknown" reasons these are the absolute HARDEST fish I have ever tried to photograph. When these fish are feeling good and swimming around in a tank their eyes GLOW this awesome blue color. In fact, and I kid you not, it looks like they have a built in light bulb right in their eye, their eyes GLOW so brightly. Without exaggerating I bet I have taken at least 2 thousand photographs of these fish trying to catch that glowing eye with my camera and I just can't do it but once you actually have these fish you will end up seeing that and it will freak you out. I am totally serious about this folks. Really! And when you do see it, try taking a photo of it. I bet you can't do it. LOL! You are bidding on 12 of these fish. You WILL get both sexes. You will get floating plants, you will get Oak leaves, you will get high quality foods for the adults, you will get 05-50 Micron Golden pearls for the tiny fry, you will get Livebearing trap door snails to eat any uneaten foods off the bottom. Hell, I will even send you one of those compact florescent bulbs so you can make your own light to keep those floating plants healthy. I will even answer any E mails you may have later as you start spawning these awesome fish yourself. Shipping is FREE and I guarantee live arrival of EVERYTHING and I also guarantee you will end up seeing those glowing eyes I went on and on about while writing this description! Folks, I don't mess around. I sell nice stuff. I start all these auctions at a dollar and I offer free shipping and an unconditional guarantee. Trust ol' Lotsoffish. Here is my shipping schedule right up to Memorial Day Weekend- I will be shipping Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Saturdays. I can usually ship the next available shipping day after you cough up the loot, and as always, I don't mess around. email me any questions

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Bid History:

Bidders		Bid Time		Bid		Comments
Therverendturtle (1/1)		May 20 2010 - 03:40:00 PM		$1.00
Therverendturtle (1/1)		May 20 2010 - 06:02:14 PM		$8.00		Bumped up by: Rdwilliams $8.00
Tundrastomper8993 (20/20)		May 20 2010 - 06:05:45 PM		$11.00
Tundrastomper8993 (20/20)		May 20 2010 - 08:55:45 PM		$20.00		Bumped up by: Lilmissruffcountry $20.00
Tundrastomper8993 (20/20)		May 21 2010 - 03:08:53 PM		$21.00		Bumped up by: Davecf $21.00
Tundrastomper8993 (20/20)		May 21 2010 - 03:09:56 PM		$25.00		Bumped up by: Davecf $25.00
Msdevine (409/413)		May 21 2010 - 08:36:12 PM		$34.00
Msdevine (409/413)		May 22 2010 - 07:58:36 AM		$50.00		Bumped up by: Foodboozeandtatoos $50.00
Foodboozeandtatoos (54/54)		May 22 2010 - 08:01:12 AM		$51.00
Rwk (263/263)		May 26 2010 - 02:01:04 PM		$52.00

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