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A 20 gallon project 2.0 Electric Blue! Free Ship!

Item #1316568455

Current Auction Time: Sun Jun 2 16:39:50 2024

		Final:	$35.51		First Bid	$1.00
		Time left	00:00		# of Bids	5 (bid history)
		Started	Sep 13 2011 - 09:27:35 AM		Location	Lexington KY 40503-2019 United States
		Ended	Sep 20 2011 - 08:27:35 PM Auction Closed
		Seller	Lexinverts (261/261)
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		High Bidder	Maney (134/140)
		Payment	PayPal
		Shipping	Will Ship to Continental United States Only Seller Pays Shipping,

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.

Description

TWO JUVIE ELECTRIC BLUE CRAYS, SIX PAIRS OF ENDLERS SP.#2 (OR TIGER ENDLERS), SIX ADULT TAIWAN FIRE RED SHRIMP, FREE SHIPPING!

Hello Aquabid!

Here's a fun project for you to mess around with. I've really fallen in love with crayfish of late. They have striking personalities and are a hoot to sit back and watch in your tank. Don't believe me? Below is an email from one of my customers about the Marbled crayfish she got from me.

"This is the crayfish that came from you .. now about 4" + long. I made a cave for it .. and is *she* getting territorial!! lol There are two Mystery snails .. the magenta is almost golf ball size (in the first pic above the cave) Earlier today, I caught the crayfish with an attitude .. POed with the snails hanging out in the cave, so she picked up the magenta and literally tossed it out of the cave through the hole. Then later in the day, I caught it with the camera with the yellow snail ,.. only I think my camera flash scared her. I don't think people know just how hilarious these things can be .. lol"

The challenge with most crays is dealing with their appetites for your fish and plants! Most people don't want to have a tank with a single cray in it. So, I've been experimenting with different arrangements. I've found that you can have a thriving community ecosystem with crays, fish, shrimp, and plants that will sustain itself. Win this box if you would like a dynamic and unique aquatic ecosystem in your livingroom!

In this Auction:

juvie Electric Blue crayfish

juvie Electric Blue crayfish

juvie Electric Blue crayfish

Fire Red Shrimp

Fire Red Shrimp

ENDLERS SPECIES #2

ENDLERS SPECIES #2

Tiger Endlers

Tiger Endlers

Up for bidding are the following awesome pieces of livestock:

• Six Adult Pairs of EITHER Endlers Sp#2 OR Tiger Endlers
• Six Adult Taiwan Fire Red Shrimp (One female will be berried)
• Two, 1.5-inch-long juvie Electric Blue Crayfish

HERE IS THE PLAN: Clear out a 20 gallon tank or larger. Get some floating plants like Hornwort and some Java moss to tie onto your rocks. Get at least 6 pvc pipe ends from Lowes to use as crayfish caves. Get some slate or other stackable rocks from a landscaping store. Get some driftwood from AB or a fish store. Stack these pieces of rock and driftwod over your pvc caves so your setup appears more natural. SEE MY PHOTO BELOW.

You will get Endlers and Shrimp in this box that will breed very quickly. You will get crayfish that are too small to do much damage to the shrimp or fish for a month or more. Your shrimp and Endlers populations will grow quickly to the point where it won't matter if the crayfish snag a fish or shrimp once in a while. Right now, I have tanks with Cherax var. Blue Moon, Marbled Crays, Electric Blues, CPOs, and C. shufeldtii living with shrimp and Endlers like this. The key is giving the shrimp and Endlers time to build up their population and giving the shrimp lots of cover. Floating plants like Hornwort work really well for this. Java moss allows the baby shrimp to hide from the fish and crays.

Although sometimes referred to as "Endler's guppies," Endlers are not guppies (Poelicia reticulata). Rather, they are a closely related species that was recently (2006) described by a group of German scientists as Poelicia wingei. They were originally collected by evolutionary biologist, Dr. John Endler in 1975 in Lago de los Patos, Venezuela and brought back to the USA, where they became established in the aquarium trade. In the 80's, while traveling in England, Dr. Endler discovered, to his surprise, that his fish had become known in trade as "Endler's Liverbearers." He noted that the fish being sold as Endler's Livebearers had lost much of the color variation present in the original specimens, perhaps because of genetic drift, inbreeding, and/or hybridization with guppies. Native populations of these fish show amazing colors and have a tremendous amount of variation. Fortunately for us, in the last 15 years, new collections have been made from the populations in and around Lago de los Patos. Sadly, Lago de los Patos is critically threatened by runoff from a nearby garbage dump and numerous other sources of pollution. (Soon many Endlers wild type color variants will probably only exist in the aquarium hobby.) The recent collections have added many fabulous new genetic variants to the aquarium trade. Check out Adrian Hernandez's Endlersusa.com for a ton of information about these fish!

The first Endlers option for this auction is the Endlers Species #2. We got these from Pete Mang (Lotsoffish). He got them from the Dutch collector/breeder Jaap Jan de Greef, who got them from the breeder Adrian Hernandez. Adrian got them from the collector Armando Pou, who collected them near Lago de los Patos, Venezuela. These are pure wild stock Endlers (no guppy genes).

These wild Endlers are really fabulous fish--they are hardy, gorgeous, and prolific! They are so active and fast moving that it is really hard to get a good picture of them, so our pictures don't do them justice. The video clips are a little better. Species #2s show lots of variation in the amount of the different colors they show, but all males have some amount of bright orange, blue, green, silver, and black. Some of our most recent generation are almost completely orange!

The second option of Endler we are offering is a Guppy x Endler hybrid, the Tiger Endler. This hybrid was initially a result of a male Endler jumping into a tank with Micariffe Guppies at Aquaworld in California. The proprietors noticed a beautiful fish in the guppy tank with a body like an Endler and a marbled black and yellow coloration. They bred these to produce the "California Tiger Endler" which then many other breeders replicated to produce the strains of Tiger Endlers in the hobby today. The fish we are offering are a strain coming from Lotsoffish.

The next thing we're going to put in this box is 6 awesome ADULT Taiwan Fire Red shrimp. AT LEAST ONE FEMALE WITH BE BERRIED. These guys are a flaming red variant of Neocaridina heteropoda, are beautiful, prolific breeders, and very hardy. This is the same line of these shrimp that Lotsoffish has been selling as Sakura/Fire Red shrimp. They sure look awesome in his photos. Pete got them from Astrochick00, and if you look at my feedback, you can see that she got them from me. I got them originally from Fishshimps. You can check out his current auctions for 10 Adults of this strain that are going for 69.99. Get 'em from me with NO RESERVE and FREE SHIPPING!

Finally, win this box and you'll get 2 juvie 1.5 inch Procambarus, var Electric Blue Crayfish. These guys are a great beginner crayfish. They are very hardy, eat anything, and get really really BLUE as the mature. We got this strain from Lotsoffish, so take a look at his pictures of adults of this strain if you want to see how blue they get when they mature. It is possible that they could arrive missing a claw. This is quite common with crays, but is not a big deal since they grow them back very quickly. Look at the third (bottom) picture of the crayfish that has lost its claws and has started to grow them back. These guys will eat some plants, so they will do best in a tank with floating hornwort and Najas grass, which is probably best for your Endlers fry anyway.

We're going to stuff all of this into a box and ship it to you for FREE with a LIVE ARRIVAL GUARANTEE. (No guarantee for any extras included in the box.) We ship via Priority Mail in a Styrofoam-lined box with Kordon breather bags. Heat packs are no extra charge. We offer a NO RISK LIVE ARRIVAL GUARANTEE. By no risk, we mean that if your animals arrive DOA, whether it's our fault or the fault of the USPS, we will re-ship them at NO ADDITIONAL COST TO YOU. How many sellers on Aquabid offer that kind of guarantee? Just email us a digital picture of the dead fish in the unopened bag within 2 hrs of the first delivery attempt. We ship to the continental USA only.





Payment is via Paypal only. Send payment within 24 hrs of close of auction to Lexinverts1@gmail.com, please. Contact us with questions at Lexinverts1@gmail.com. Check out our stellar feedback to see how we do business!

Pictured below is an Endlers and shrimp setup in our living room. Go to our photo website for more pictures of these animals.

http://s754.photobucket.com/home/Lexinverts/index

Good luck and happy bidding!

Added by the Seller on Tue Sep 13 09:29:47 2011:

I forgot to specify... The crayfish are a sexed pair: Male and Female.

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Bid History:

Bidders		Bid Time		Bid		Comments
Dafrimpster (108/108)		Sep 13 2011 - 09:55:20 AM		$1.00
Chanel (143/143)		Sep 13 2011 - 10:13:09 AM		$7.00
Katieasaur (15/15)		Sep 13 2011 - 12:16:48 PM		$26.00
Maney (134/140)		Sep 17 2011 - 07:46:00 PM		$31.50
Maney (134/140)		Sep 18 2011 - 06:35:39 PM		$35.51		Bumped up by: Tina013 $35.51

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