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| How 'bout a little FIRE for your tank FSNR!! |
| Item #1300411735 |
Current Auction Time: Tue Apr 30 02:11:43 2024
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Final: | $76.00 | First Bid | $1.00 | ||
| Time left | 00:00 | # of Bids | 14 (bid history) | |||
| Started | Mar 9 2011 - 02:28:55 PM | Location | Lexington KY 40508 United States | |||
| Ended | Mar 17 2011 - 08:28:55 PM Auction Closed |
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| Seller | Lexinverts (261/261)   |
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| High Bidder | Dcmantis (88/90)  |
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| Shipping | Will Ship to Continental United States Only Seller Pays Shipping, See Item Description | |||||
Seller assumes all responsibility for listing this item. You should contact the seller to resolve any questions before bidding. Currency is U.S. dollars (US$) unless otherwise noted. |
N-CLASS FIRE RED FLAME TAIL ENDLERS, POSO ORANGE AND YELLOW RABBIT SNAILS! TAIWAN FIRE RED SHRIMP! STARTS A BUCK!
Hello Aquabid!
It's time for the Lexinverts "little fire" auction! We've got a bunch of RED, ORANGE, and YELLOW little stuff melting a hole in one of our tanks and its time to let a few of these Endlers, shrimp, and snails go. So go ahead and dust off a 10 gallon and slap down a fat proxy bid if you don't mind playing with fire!
P.S. If the music doesn't play for you in Firefox, try using Internet Explorer. For Macs, use Safari.
In this Auction:
Up for bidding are the following awesome pieces of livestock:
N-Class Fire Red Endler
N-Class Fire Red Endler
N-Class Fire Red Endler
N-Class Top Yellow Sword
Taiwan Fire Red Shrimp
Poso Orange Rabbit Snail
Yellow Rabbit Snail
- Two Adult Pairs of N-class Fire Red Flame Tail Endlers (That's 2 females and 2 males)
- 10 juvie Taiwan Fire Red Shrimp
- 4 juvie Poso Orange Rabbit Snails (1/4 to 1/2 inch)
- 6 juvie Yellow Rabbit Snails (1/4 to 1/2 inch)
The amazing wild type variant of Endlers we are offering in this auction, is the Fire Red Flame Tail. These are the REDDEST wild stock Endler (No guppy genes) that you will ever find! Our photos are washed out and don't do these fish justice-they are really tough to photograph! We got our Fire Red Flame Tails from Adrian Hernandez (See below link for his pictures). He got the original wild stock from the collector Armando Pou, who collected them near Lago de los Patos, Venezuela. That is why they are N-class Endlers. N-class Endlers are pure-blood Endlers whose origins can be directly traced to wild collections. Adrian selected wild type flame tails for red coloration, and after a few generations he obtained some fish that, as you'll see from the pictures, are FIRE ENGINE RED and really pop out in a planted tank!
http://www.aquabid.com/cgi-bin/auction/closed.cgi?view_archive_item&fwlivebearersw1290394595
Our Fire Red Flame Tail Endlers throw about 30% of the beautiful Top Yellow Sword variant. This is because the Fire Red and Top Yellow Sword strains are closely related and the Fire Red Strain does not breed true. You can separate these from the Fire Reds to improve the strain, or you can keep them together for a little more variation. At any rate, they are stunning fish too.
We really like having colorful and "busy" tanks and we keep invertebrates in all of our Endlers tanks and they coexist very well. You just need to have some Hornwort and/or Java moss to provide some cover.
The first fiery invertebrate we're going to throw into this box is 10 Taiwan Fire Red Shrimps. Taiwan Fire Red Shrimps, or "Sakura" shrimps as they are sometimes called, are a variant of Red Cherry Shrimps that have been selected for color. And they are AWESOME! This strain is fully red as mature female adults. By fully red, I mean that the females don't have that light-colored stripe on their backs like most normal cherries do. They also are a deeper red right down to the swimmerets, whereas normal females have translucent swimmerets so their eggs appear yellow when they are berried. But these TFR shrimps are so red that you can barely see the eggs they are carrying when they are berried! Another remarkable thing about this strain is that the males can also be quite red. While still not as red as the females, they are MUCH redder than the males of standard Cherries.
The next thing we're going to put in this box is a collection of Rabbit snails with yellow and orange coloration. It's not hard to find rabbit snails with fiery colors, since yellow is the most common bright color that occurs in these snails. You're going to get 4 beautiful 1/4 to 1/2 inch juvenile Orange Poso (adult Orange Posos go for about 20 bucks per snail!) and 6 juvenile 1/4 to 1/2 inch Yellow Rabbit snails for a total of at least 10 snails. These guys look fabulous on a dark black substrate!
For those of you that are not familiar with rabbit snails, they come from the warm-water, high pH great lakes of Sulawesi, are stunningly beautiful, and extremely active snails. When we first got them they immediately became THE first thing we pointed out in our tanks to visitors. They are livebearers and only produce 1 baby per month, so they won't overpopulate your tank. (Do the math - it would take almost a year for one female to produce as many snails as you will win in this auction!) They will eat plants like Amazon Swords, Anubias, etc., but they go VERY well with floating plants, mosses, and Marimo balls. (Check out the picture at the bottom of the page of our tank with Rabbit Snails and Shrimp to see how green a 'rabbit-snail-tank' can be with moss and floaters!)
For these snails to be happy, you should turn your heater up to about 80 F. You'll want to add crushed coral/aragonite (1 lb per gallon) to bring your pH up to about 7.8. If you want to go with black sand for substrate (instead of Aragonite or crushed coral) to set off the yellows, orange and reds in your Endlers, shrimps and snails, you can raise your pH by putting a bag of crushed coral in a HOB (hang on back) filter. Just put a sponge pre-filter over the intake to prevent the baby shrimp from getting sucked in. We use HOBs all the time for this and it works great!
Feed this stuff raw carrots (these snails love carrots and carrots won't pollute your water when they sit in your tank for a few days!), frozen Brine Shrimp, Ken's Veggie Sticks with Calcium, and Oak/Indian Almond leaves. Under these conditions your rabbit snails will grow into 3-4-inch-long MONSTERS and the shrimp will breed like crazy.
Note: since the adults are bigger and much easier to photograph, most of our pictures are of adults. Go to the below link for a gallery of pictures of juvie rabbit snails like the ones you will get in this auction!
http://s754.photobucket.com/albums/xx186/Lexinverts/Juvenile Rabbit Snails/
Added by the Seller on Wed Mar 9 14:29:56 2011:
Bid History:
Bidders Bid Time Bid Comments Tstephan (34/34) Mar 9 2011 - 04:13:43 PM $1.00 Btm450 (38/42) Mar 9 2011 - 05:06:44 PM $2.00 Btm450 (38/42) Mar 9 2011 - 05:10:54 PM $3.00 Bumped up by: Tstephan $3.00 Btm450 (38/42) Mar 9 2011 - 05:11:18 PM $4.00 Bumped up by: Tstephan $4.00 Btm450 (38/42) Mar 9 2011 - 05:50:17 PM $5.00 Bumped up by: Tstephan $5.00 Btm450 (38/42) Mar 9 2011 - 05:50:43 PM $6.99 Bumped up by: Tstephan $6.99 Btm450 (38/42) Mar 9 2011 - 05:51:12 PM $15.99 Bumped up by: Tstephan $15.99 Btm450 (38/42) Mar 9 2011 - 05:51:41 PM $21.99 Bumped up by: Tstephan $21.99 Btm450 (38/42) Mar 9 2011 - 05:52:06 PM $25.99 Bumped up by: Tstephan $25.99 Tstephan (34/34) Mar 9 2011 - 05:52:34 PM $26.00 Dcmantis (88/90) Mar 10 2011 - 07:52:00 AM $30.99 Dcmantis (88/90) Mar 11 2011 - 02:39:02 AM $40.01 Bumped up by: Caloy001 $40.01 Dcmantis (88/90) Mar 13 2011 - 10:43:15 AM $60.00 Bumped up by: Creativeaquarist $60.00 Dcmantis (88/90) Mar 13 2011 - 10:44:23 AM $76.00 Bumped up by: Creativeaquarist $76.00
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