Select Aquatics
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Select Aquatics breeds affordable,
quality, specialty tropical fish for
hobbyists and conservation
research. Most are not often
seen and many are endangered
or extinct in the wild. This site
is also a one stop place for
fishkeeping information on how best to
keep these fish.
If you are keeping an aquarium,
you have the opportunity to help
preserve species that are about to
go extinct in the wild. As well, due
to increased export restrictions,
many species are at risk of
disappearing from the hobby.
The fish offered here are hardy,
generally not difficult to care
for, and may depend on
hobbyists such as yourself to
maintain their availability. |
Select Aquatics of
Erie, CO.
Since 2008 |
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Select Aquatics
maintains a
fairly consistent collection
of species/lines that are
bred here and posted as
available. If you wish to buy
anything on this page, or wish
to see a new species offered,
please contact Greg Sage at
selectaquatics@gmail.com
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Site Index |
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See New Shipping Info
and Status
of Every Species in Narrative Below! |
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Select Aquatics Lineup |
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Receive Notice when each Species
becomes Available by Subscribing to
the Select Aquatics YouTube Channel!
To Order.
Use Paypal Buttons below, for Live
Goods,
Email
selectaquatics@gmail.com,
and
Please Include Your Zip Code!
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Available
Now
See Updated Shipping Info
Below
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Species Lineup and Prices
Levamisole for
Sale
Fishkeeping Tips
Articles,
Handouts and Videos
Rapid Grow Plant Fertilizer
Water Change System
Why should I Keep Rare Fish?
Tour the
Fishroom
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What Do
Customers
Think of
Select
Aquatics?
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Perfect
Batch
Brine Shrimp Hatcher
Manual
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"Select Aquatics strives to provide
Friendly, Prompt, and Professional
service for every customer. We
ship Affordable, Top Quality Fish,
with the Care and Personal
Assistance to ensure a positive
online fish buying experience ."
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Ordering new species you've never
kept from someone you don't know
with water different than yours can
be scary. Some assurance that in
6 months the fish will still be doing
well would be ideal, particularly
since many of these fish are rare
or hard to obtain.
From your first email to inquire
about ordering until the moment
they arrive, we will keep in close
touch to answer any questions you
may have so that you know exactly
what you are getting, and precisely
when they will be sent. Care
information for each species is
also provided Here.
Postage is never overcharged, and
extras are nearly always sent with
carefully done, professional
shipping. To help ensure they do
well for you, a Care Guide is
provided for each species from
the link below. Be sure to check
the updated comments at "What
Do Customers Think of Select
Aquatics" at the link just above!
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Do You Have Trouble
Keeping Livebearers?
There
is a very Common Disease in the
Hobby that causes many Livebearers to
become thin and perish. A small parasite
exists in our aquariums, and often comes
from where we obtain our Fish, and it
primarily affects Guppies,
Swords, Platies
Mollies and Limias.
Called "Livebearer Disease", this is
often why many have trouble keeping
livebearers. There is only one drug that
is effective at treating it -
Levamisole hydrochloride.
Levamisole is also totally effective at
eradicating camallanus worms and
other minor pathogens.
This Drug is not Available from your
Local Fish Store. Various sized
packets are offered below with a
measuring spoon. A 10 gram packet
will treat 500 gallons. See more info
HERE
and in the right column below.
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Pethia padamya "Odessa"
Selectively Bred at Select Aquatics Since 2010 |
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The link to the Odessa Availability Video
will be
listed here when the Video is
posted,
and the Odessas are ready to
be
Shipped.
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Groups of Six 2-4 Month
Old Unsexed
See Cost and Shipping Rates Below
Email selectaquatics@gmail.com
for a Quote
and Next Available Day to Ship.
Be sure to
include your Zip Code! |
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Spring/
Summer 2024
Updated
3-9-24 |
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The Levamisole
continues to be in
good supply, and shipped
on the
business day following
payment,
often on the same day, if
payment
is made early enough.
Order by using the
payment
buttons to the right, or
email
selectaquatics@gmail.com.
for a quote with the
payment information
to ship 3-5
Day Priority out to you.
Thank you!
I generally respond to my
emails within
24 hours, and do have spots
available
to come out to
speak to your local club in
2024. If
you would like to explore making
this
happen, please email me at
selectaquatics@gmail.com,
and we can discuss it!
With an email to
selectaquatics@gmail.com,
please include your ZIP Code, I will send
you
back a quote to ship fish out to you
following
their Availability Video posting. |
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The Tools we use here to
Best Keep These Fish -
Available For Sale! |
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Email
selectaquatics@gmail.com
to purchase any of these fish.
Extras are sent
with every
carefully packed box.
Payment by Paypal, check
or money order.
Paypal account:
selectaquatics@gmail.com
Please drop us an email if
you have any questions or
concerns about anything at
the site - simply email
and
we will
get right back
to you. Thank you!
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Important Updates! |
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Brief Pause in Shipping Fish:
As discussed on this site when
Select Aquatics began, my goal was to
help save species that were once sold
at ALA conventions, predicted to be
extinct from the hobby within 10 years,
back in 2008.
Since then, 47 species have been
maintained, bred and sold by
Select Aquatics, and a number of
species, including the Xiphophorus
Montezuma and Poecilia velifera,
that have had over a thousand fish
shipped out to hobbyists around the US.
Over 2000 Green Dragon Plecos and the
selectively bred Odessa Barbs have also
been shipped, as well as over 500 each
of six different Xiphophorus swordtails, as
well as hundreds of rare goodeids
generally not being bred and distributed
by others.
Extensive care information has always
been provided on the species pages
here, special care pages provided at this
website, numerous YouTube videos on
keeping these fish, thousands of daily
email responses and over 70 talks at
clubs around the US on the care of
these fish, provided since 2008.
Today, these fish should be
well-established in the hobby and
available at local clubs, shows and at
www.aquabid.com.
I continue to work with a number of
species, and will be posting them as
available soon, including the
Xenotoca
doadrioi,
Ilyodon furcidens,
Ameca
splendens,
Limia islai, and
Alfaro cultratus.
Following heavy sales, the Zoogoneticus
tequilas and the
Ataeniobious toweri are
being built back out.
Each year has become substantially
warmer, which has thrown off the breeding
seasons of many of the fish here, and I'm
waiting on reproduction that would normally
have occurred over the fall, from numerous
breeding groups. So I am a little behind
this year.
I am using this opportunity to restructure
and streamline, and will resume shipping
soon, with a new group of the selectively
bred Odessas at the 2-4 Months Old
Unsexed size, to be available within the
next roughly 4 weeks. An Availability
Video will be posted for them, followed
by videos for the I. Furcidens,
X. Doadrioi,
A. Splendens,
A. Toweri,
L. Islai and
Z. tequla as young become ready to ship.
I will also keep in touch with those on the
Green Dragon waitlist, to get them out
as soon as they are sexed out.
Blocks will be
posted above as each
species is again available to be
shipped.
Thank you for your understanding, with
the awareness that obtaining these fish
carries the absolute responsibility to care
for for these specialty fish properly, and
breed and distribute them to other
hobbyists so that they do not disappear.
With quality stock, attentive customer
service and producing these fish in great
numbers, I have always had difficulty keeping
up with the demand for these fish, as many
who have waited months for availability will
tell you.
I encourage anyone with the desire to keep
these in the hobby, that are organized
and professional, to consider maintaining,
breeding and shipping these species,
as they will disappear without your help!
Greg Sage
selectaquatics@gmail.com
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Rapid Grow Aquarium Plant
Fertilizer
Rapid Grow Aquarium Plant
Fertilizer
Mixed
here from quality
Hydroponics ingredients,
adapted for aquarium use
with the manufacturers.
One container will treat
44,000 gallons! Dose 1-2x
monthly. Perfectly harmless
to fish and inverts, with
dramatic plant growth.
$30 includes shipping
for 1
container.
Email for Non US Shipments
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Levamisole hydrochloride
This is the best treatment
available for parasites,
worms, and "Livebearer
Disease" See
more HERE.
Effective and immediate.
1/4 teaspoon will Dose a
100 gallon Tank Once.
A Treatment is 2 Doses,
24 hrs. apart.
Dosage Information
HERE
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Levamisole
HCL Kit
Includes:
> Light Protective Case mm
> Light Proof Zip Lock Bag
>Levamisole Measuring Spoon
10 gram Kit and Med- $25
20 gram Kit and Med.- $40
52 gram Med + Spoon = $63.50
Above Prices Include Shipping |
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As Each
Species Becomes Available, a
"Select Aquatics Available"
YouTube Video
will be Posted Announcing Orders Will be
taken to be Shipped. Please Subscribe to
the
Select Aquatics Youtube Channel, and
with Notifications checked, You will then
Receive a Notification when the videos are
Posted
Greg Sage, Owner, Select Aquatics
To Order Fish,
Multiple Hard Goods Items,
or International non-Fish items, Please email
selectaquatics@gmail.com
for a Quote.
Thank You! |
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CHEAPER SHIPPING
OPTIONS!!
The high quality thermal boxes that
I have been using are being discontinued,
and I have been obtaining other boxes
sized to ship two pair, USPS overnight,
for as little as $75-$85, depending
on your ZIP Code. The New Boxes
will be used to Ship Groups of Six
2-4 Month Old Unsexed, or Two Pair.
Groups
of Six 2-4 Month Old Unsexed =
$50 + Shipping
Pairs are $30 each + Shipping
Greater Availability of Species!!
When
Select Aquatics began, I posted
the letter to the right to all serious
hobbyists, to consider taking on some
of these exceptionally rare species,
maintaining them long-term, and
distributing them to others, so they do
not continue to disappear from the hobby.
A few have come forward, and I was
recently very pleased to tour
Ed's Aquatic Exotics, outside of
Pittsburgh, to find that Ed is working
very hard to keep and maintain a
number of species no longer carried
by Select Aquatics. Known through
emails as we share the same concern
for optimum fish health, his lines are
well established and robust.. Check
out his site from the link to the left
and HERE - -
EdsAquaticExotics.
I have also
added my friend Marshall
that has been supplying packing supplies
to Select Aquatics for the past 14 years,
most importantly providing breather bags
and heat packs, and his site can be visited
HERE.
Please
check out the other links to
the left and I will be adding more
recommendations in coming weeks!
Canadian Customers:
USPS has reconfigured Canadian
shipping.
Levamisole is shipped regularly, but my
fertilizer has sometimes been delayed
by Canadian Customs. (But does get
delivered.)
There are 2 ways to ship the levamisole
(10, 20 or 52 grams) and they are:
First Class - Up to 3 weeks -
$17 + Medication cost
3-5 Day Priority - $45 + Medication
Thank you!
Greg Sage
selectaquatics.com
selectaquatics@gmail.com
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Please! Non -
US Customers!
Email
selectaquatics@gmail.com
for a Quote as International
Postage Costs for Hard
Goods Items will Differ.
Thank you!
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Wanna know what the Levamisole
Measuring Spoon and Case guy is
Working On Next?
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Mr. Sage provided me with the
best experience I could've asked for. The wonderful fish he
breeds are priced
very affordably, and are super high quality.
He always responded to our emails swiftly and was extremely
helpful with any questions and concerns we had.
His packaging of the fish was phenomenal, and all (even the
extras!) arrived across the country in excellent
condition!
They are beautiful, healthy, and active. it was incredibly
stress-free as I knew I could trust the process.
Despite a small delay due to the USPS, Greg quickly assured us
that the fish would be fine.
Mr.
Sage has a great reputation in the livebearer hobby, and I can
say he has totally lived up to that
reputation for me and I'm looking forward to ordering from him
again! I seriously can't recommend him
enough.
Thank you for all you do for the hobby, Mr. Sage!
Christina K. NY
First, off thank you for the beautiful fish. Every time I
receive a new species from you I am always surprised by
how much more beautiful they are in real life versus the picture. The
Alfaro cultratus you sent for example are far more
stunning than any picture I have ever seen of them. That includes Google
image searches.
Jay G., The
Woodlands, TX
Hi Greg,
The
Odessa barbs are here, in GREAT shape, and currently
'acclimatizing' in a 5 gallon bucket with my own
graduated drip system.
Thank
you very, VERY much for your attention and care and patience
with me throughout this process. I've been
receiving fish via express mail for 30 years but your packing is a whole
new universe from what I've ever experienced.
Thank you
again for the 'bonus' fish which I counted as 8 but my wife
insists is 9. She also could not believe the packing
or condition of the fish. Also, thank you for the
anticipated forwarding of the rebate check for the excess
shipping charge.
When everything stabilizes, I'll forward some pics.
Again this has been the best fish purchasing experience I've
ever had.
Ed D. Rio verde, AZ
See "What
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Select Aquatics is a Licensed Animal
Care Facility in Colorado.
Contact Select Aquatics by emailing
selectaquatics@gmail.com
Select Aquatics - 167 McAfee Circle, Erie, CO 80516
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