Current Auction Time: Tue May 14 04:04:57 2024

		Final:	$25.00		First Bid	$25.00
		Time left	00:00		# of Bids	1 (bid history)
		Started	Apr 2 2015 - 03:00:14 PM		Location	Waldo FL 32694 United States
		Ended	Apr 5 2015 - 03:00:12 PM Auction Closed
		Seller	Rainbowrunner (332/338)
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		High Bidder	Dianas (18/18)
		Payment	PayPal
		Shipping	Will Ship to Continental United States Only Buyer Pays Fixed Amount,

This is my all time favorite sunfish! For 7 reasons. 1.Personality is off the charts. 2.Will eat pellets all day long. 3.Breed easily, no experience necessary. 4.They make awesome dithers for cichlids. 5.Glowing colors, even in females. 6.They are inexpensive. 7. Can survive under a sheet of ice.

Keeping this fish is a must-have experience. They are an absolute hoot!

One group of 6. About quarter size. Eating nicely on frozen mysis shrimp, frozen marine foods & 1.5mm pellets. Will eat quality flake greedily. Avoid long term use of brine shrimp due to the low protein content. These guys are domesticated, VERY tame and will eat out of your hand once acclimated.

Sunfish care:

Caring for sunfish is different than most fish. They are called sunfish for a reason, so give them bright lights and long photo periods. The use of an albino pleco will keep the resulting algae under control. The common "brown/black" pleco quickly gets large and aggressive & should be strongly avoided. Mild uni-directional or multi-directional water flow will make this fish very happy, as will dithers. Ick medication (esp Quick cure� & Clout�) are highly toxic to them, so make sure they don't get Ick, use Metro & heat if they do. For columnaris a 2hr dip in PP followed by a few drops of peroxide afterwards will do the trick. Dosage for PP is a very light pink water color for 2 hrs, there is no other reliable technical formula or mathematical formula. Sunfish treatments are different than the other 99% of ornamental fishes, contact me for verification. Sunfish have VERY strong immune systems, they are just sensitive to some chemicals. (I actually consider Clout� to be an outstanding product, just NOT on sunfish!)

I can include a large package of the 1.5mm pellets they are trained on for only $5 extra, this is a whopping 46% protein, most pet shops carry pellets in the 25%-40% range. Flat $20 shipping. Paypal only. Your prompt payment is appreciated. Florida fish dealers license # available upon request.

I will need to know if there are any other fish you would like to add to your order, they will be gladly added to your invoice at opening bid price or current bid price, whichever is greater. The addition of fish to your order may or may not result in an increase in shipping costs, depending on the type of fish added to the order, feel free to ask if adding fish to your order will increase your shipping costs or not.

Unless otherwise posted, fish are sold as varied size & of varied gender & no promised size or gender. Once the minimum promised amount of fish arrive alive, my obligation will have been met and i will consider the sale a success. In the extremely unlikely event the amount of DoA's exceed the amount of freebies, the cost of the DOA fish may be prorated and refunded, especially if the buyer declines to pay for a reship, just email me a mandatory photo of the DOA's for my records. I do not guarantee or promise the size of fish, gender of fish, or time frame delivery of fish, unless specifically otherwise posted. Although I usually prefer to process orders quickly, I reserve the right to ship fish up to 7 days after payment has been made and up to 14 days during weeks in the vicinity of a major holiday, inclement weather, natural disaster, or acts of terrorism. I will need to know if there are any other fish you would like to add to your order, they will be gladly added to your invoice at opening bid price or current bid price, whichever is greater. The addition of fish to your order may or may not result in an increase in shipping costs, depending on the type of fish added to the order, feel free to ask if adding fish to your order will increase your shipping costs or not.

Unless otherwise posted, fish are sold as varied size & of varied gender & no promised size or gender. Once the minimum promised amount of fish arrive alive, my obligation will have been met and i will consider the sale a success. In the extremely unlikely event the amount of DoA's exceed the amount of freebies, the cost of the DOA fish may be prorated and refunded, especially if the buyer declines to pay for a reship, just email me a mandatory photo of the DOA's for my records. I do not guarantee or promise the size of fish, gender of fish, or time frame delivery of fish, unless specifically otherwise posted. Although I usually prefer to process orders quickly, I reserve the right to ship fish up to 7 days after payment has been made and up to 14 days during weeks in the vicinity of a major holiday, inclement weather, natural disaster, or acts of terrorism.

24hrs prior to shipment, fish are withheld food to reduce in-transit ammonia levels. Fish are shipped via USPS Priority mail with medical grade oxygen, clean water and cushioned with impact absorbing insulation. Spiny and/or large fish will have the bag wrapped in duct tape as to prevent puncture and subsequent leakage. Once shipped, you will receive 48hrs advance notice via USPS's email tracking alert system, so please be ready to make yourself available to receive the fish. Requests to have your fish arrive on a Saturday will always be denied due to it's proximity to Sunday. Requests to have your fish arrive on a certain day will be taken into mild consideration, but never guaranteed.

Once your fish are shipped you will receive email tracking alerts, these alerts are usually the only form of post-payment communication you will receive from me, unless you contact me for verification of payment or verification of shipping status. By default, these USPS tracking alerts are usually sent to your email address listed with paypal, not a seconday email account. You are most likely to begin to receive email tracking alerts on Saturday afternoon or Sunday. Please make sure your home address listed with paypal is correct & complete (i.e street, drive, Ave). If the package is misdirected or delayed due to the customer providing an incorrect or conflicting delivery address, I will accept zero financial responsibility and you will have to hunt down your own package.

BY DEFAULT I ALWAYS SHIP TO THE ADDRESS LISTED WITH PAYPAL, unless a specific request has been acknowledged by me, via email, to ship to a location other than the address listed with paypal. Shipments to Puerto Rico must be within 50 miles of San Juan. If you have 2 different email addresses, monitor both until your fish arrive. Shipping costs are never refunded under any circumstances. Items lost in transit, i.e dormant tracking number, the fish will be replaced free of charge but the buyer must pay to re-ship the item.

If for some reason you have trouble contacting me, check your spam folder, check your other email addresses, or contact me thru the aquabid/ebay messaging system. Do not order fish before going on vacation. I reserve the right to cancel the sale and issue a refund to customers whom I consider to have difficulty conducting business civilly and/or are Verbally abusive via email, i am a fish person, not a people person, but i am doing my best=) I do not ship fish during or in the vicinity of weeks that contain a holiday. I do not ship fish during or in the vicinity of weeks expected to have a heavy mailstream. I ship fish according to the fishes best interest and there may be times that patience on your part may be required in order for the fish to have a 100% successful voyage. Thanks for looking at my auctions and feel free to contact me with any questions!

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Previous feedback about this item.

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Smick (129/129) Apr 15 2014 - 11:27:56 AM fwusnative1397592688 Praise: good fish, perfect packing, excellent service- bid with confidence A++++++++++++

Nonfucious (7/7) Apr 9 2014 - 10:06:17 AM fwusnative1395278864 Praise: Shipping slow but seller came through and accommodated my conflict. Fish are awesome.

Phyder (49/49) Dec 11 2013 - 03:17:13 PM fwusnative1384499249 Praise: Thanks, the fish look good.

Girlvirgo101 (16/16) Dec 9 2013 - 06:01:08 AM fwusnative1385205106 Praise: Awesome fish.. Ive always wanted natives and these little guys are cute!

Fishmanbill (179/179) Nov 12 2013 - 08:32:33 PM fwusnative1380816358 Praise: Great service, great packing, great fish!

Fishmaster714 (7/7) Oct 17 2013 - 12:16:16 PM fwusnative1378992610 Praise: Good Seller fish came in very healthy looking forward to watching them grow thank you

Bigsoftie (4/4) Aug 30 2013 - 06:51:37 PM fwusnative1378428092 Praise: Beautiful fish/Timely reasonable shipping. Excellent communication. Couldn't ask for more from a seller! BEAUTIFUL FISH!

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Here's the backstory: Not all dollar sunfish look like this, during a sampling trip in June 2011 a lake-locked population of dollar sunfish was observed while studying another species. These fish stood out due to how friendly this population was. Instead of hiding when stumbled upon, they seemed to follow us around the shoreside, for reasons which became apparent when the locals were observed tossing them bread crumbs and other miscellaneous food items. When captured, this race revealed remarkable pumpkin orange and neon green markings, the intensity and combination of these markings were not observed in dollar sunfish at 24 other sampling sites. While the neon green seems mandatory for this species, the high intensity pumpkin orange color seemed to be restricted to this particular lakelocked population. I do realize that the orange exists in other populations, but not nearly at this intensity. Being "pre-domesticated" these fish had a 100% survival rate once in captivity, whereas fish collected at other locations had only a 10% survival rate once in captive care. Fascinating!!!!!

Ship below 34F at your own risk.

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Bid History:

Bidders		Bid Time		Bid		Comments
Dianas (18/18)		Apr 5 2015 - 02:41:21 PM		$25.00

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