Current Auction Time: Thu May 16 11:38:56 2024

		Final:	$85.00		First Bid	$75.00
		Time left	00:00		# of Bids	3 (bid history)
		Started	Sep 4 2014 - 09:28:59 AM		Location	Winston-Salem NC 27103 United States
		Ended	Sep 11 2014 - 09:28:58 AM Auction Closed
		Seller	Okiimiru (340/340)
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		High Bidder	Tlkramer16 (87/87)
		Payment	See Item Description, PayPal
		Shipping	Will Ship to Continental United States Only See Item Description

Elassoma okefenokee is a one inch fish native to Florida and Georgia. They are also known as pygmy sunfish. Elassoma okefenokee eats live foods or formerly alive, then frozen foods. Examples include live grindal worms, pet store cubes of frozen bloodworms, live or frozen blackworms, etc.
Do not expect this fish to eat fish flakes. It won't.



Care guide: Put your adults in some sort of tank (5 gallon, 10 gallon, whatever you want). Then, a month later, remove the adults and feed the "empty" tank with vinegar eels, baby brine shrimp, microworms, whatever your fry food of choice is. A week later if you have good eyes you will see dozens of fry.

One example: I put 3 females and two males in a tank and removed them a month and a half later. I fed fry food to the tank after removing the parents and individually netted and removed (counting as I went) 75 to 100 baby fish.



Tank setup: What kind of tanks do elassoma like, you ask? Heavily planted tanks with slow moving water. A sponge filter or air stone would work, or a filter with a mesh over the intake. This fish is one inch long at its maximum old age, meaning they spend the majority of their lives at half an inch long to 3/4 of an inch long. A current that is only minor flow to a four inch fish becomes white water rapids for a teensy tiny half inch fish.



You are bidding on every single elassoma I have left. I bred this fish for years, I wrote about them, I published articles and a 50 page forum post. I love this fish. I'll probably keep them again in the future. But at the moment, I want to breed rams, and I want the elassoma tank space for the ram babies. *shrugs* My loss, your win. This is a rare chance to get a fish not found in pet stores. And not only a fish: I'm offering every single elassoma I can catch. How many fish is that? I can guarantee I have both genders. How many exactly? No idea. Have you ever tried to count one inch fish in a heavily planted tank? It could be five, it could be fifteen. All I can guarantee is I'm going to empty my elassoma tanks completely and every single elassoma I find is going to the winner of this auction. As I mentioned before in the breeding section, all you need is a male and a female left in a planted [10 gallon, 5 gallon, etc] tank by themselves for one month and then removed to have a hundred babies.

Please, don't bid on this fish unless you intend to breed them.
They have less than one year life spans so if you're not breeding them, soon you won't have any.

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Bid History:

Bidders		Bid Time		Bid		Comments
Bts1026 (132/142)		Sep 8 2014 - 01:22:02 PM		$75.00
Tlkramer16 (87/87)		Sep 9 2014 - 11:48:45 PM		$76.00
Tlkramer16 (87/87)		Sep 10 2014 - 07:23:27 PM		$85.00		Bumped up by: Bts1026 $85.00

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