Updated June 23, 2009
Shipping is $28 flat rate for Fedex Overnight no matter how many fish and frogs you buy. I do not ship outside the continental U.S. If you are near Columbus Ohio you can pick up at my house (by appointment only).
All fish and frogs for sale are captive born in my home!
I sell the extra plants from my aquariums and terrariums here.
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Crystal red shrimp, grade C. These have more red and less white than the higher grade shrimp. These are a great choice if you just want to see if they'll grow and breed in your tank. Keep these between 70-76°F and feed them lots of pretty much any kind of fish food. More pics and info here. Black is the wild color and red is a recessive mutation. I have lots of red ones and a few blacks. Let me know when you order if you want some black ones thrown in there. |
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Crystal red shrimp, grade A. These are great in the aquarium and unlike Amano shrimp, these breed in your tank. More pics and info here. Keep these between 70-76°F and feed them lots of pretty much any kind of fish food. With C through A grades, I take a random scoop out of the appropriate tank.With S grade and up, I hand select the very nicest shrimp! Black is the wild color and red is a recessive mutation. I have lots of red ones and a few blacks. Let me know when you order if you want some black ones thrown in there. |
Available, 10 shrimp for $40! Available, 200 shrimp for $400!! |
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Crystal red shrimp, grade S. With C through A grades, I take a random scoop out of the appropriate tank.With S grade and up, I hand select the very nicest shrimp! Black is the wild color and red is a recessive mutation. I have lots of red ones and a few blacks. Let me know when you order if you want some black ones thrown in there. |
Available, 10 shrimp for $80! |
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Crystal red shrimp, grade SS hino. With C through A grades, I take a random scoop out of the appropriate tank.With S grade and up, I hand select the very nicest shrimp! Black is the wild color and red is a recessive mutation. I have lots of red ones and a few blacks. Let me know when you order if you want some black ones thrown in there. |
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Sewellia lineolata. These loaches are really cool! Unlike most hillstream loaches they do not need cold water. I keep them in room temp water with just a sponge filter and they breed like crazy! More pics and info here. | Available, $10 each |
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Girardinus metallicus. Great, easy to keep, livebearer. | Available, $15/pair |
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Sunburst Hi-fin platies. I think of these as "stocking stuffers". You wouldn't pay to have them shipped all by themselves, but if you're getting some other fish, you can throw a pair or two of these in the box! | Available, $8/pair |
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Hypancistrus zebra, L-046. These are from the Rio Xingu. Unfortunately, at the end of 2004 Brazil removed this species from their "positive list" of what is allowed to be exported. You'd think this would be good news for the species, but then they announced a new dam on their river. Obviously, everybody that keeps these needs to try to breed them. I have two wild pairs that breed regularly. I have also held back 50 babies from these two pairs to make new unrelated pairs in the future. Be sure to keep these warm, between 83 and 86°F. Also, they are meat eaters, not algae eaters, so feed them frozen brine shrimp and other carnivore fish foods. |
I've closed the waiting list because it is forever long. However, if you're willing to pick the fish up in person, I'll still add you to the list. I sell them at 6 months old. They are not sexable at this age. The price varies over time but is at least $200 each. |
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Hypancistrus sp., L-201. Ingo Seidel I have two pairs of these so I always send offspring from both pairs (for example, if you order 6, I send three from each pair). |
Fry from two different pairs available, $20 each |
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Ancistrus sp."Pucallpa". These are a nice looking bristlenose out of Peru. Very active, very healthy. A great algae eater for any tank. I raise these just to sprinkle the young ones into all my tanks. These can be kept in a wide range of conditions and are very tough. |
Fry are sold out. |
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Long fin albino bristlenose. | Sold out, but coming soon! |
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Betta albimarginata. This small mouthbrooding betta is just the coolest fish! It's very hardy, and incredibly colorful when the male shows off to the female or other males. This fish is named after the white edges on its fins (albi means white and margin means, well, margins!). These guys do well in groups and spawn constantly. Keep them between 74 and 77°F. |
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Betta channoides. These are very similar to albimarginata except they have slightly different coloration. Keep them between 74 and 77°F. More pics and info here. | sold out |
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If you need to send me money for something that does not have a shopping cart button, this is the easiest way to do it. Just put the number of dollars in the quantity box. The shopping cart will then allow you to pay with paypal or various credit cards. |
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My friend Stephan breeds many more fish than I do and has started a website called swisstropicals.com. Check it out, he has an amazing number of fish he is raising. He took me on a fish tour in Germany in May 2006. You can see a journal of the trip here.
Feel free to use pictures from this site as long as they are not altered and the brianstropicals.com logo is left in place. Thanks!
Please inquire if you would like unmarked hi-resolution photos for commercial use.
looked at these while he was visiting my house and said they are not H. contradens or H. inspector, but are L-201 that do not have a species name yet. These are from the upper Rio Orinoco and Negro. Just like the zebra plecos, these are meat eaters, not algae eaters. Keep these at 80-84°F. Mine are breeding constantly. A few more pics 
