Black Bar Endlers. 10 Breeding Adults. Pure Bred. £15 [St Albans}

[fishoholic]

Livestock: Black Bar Endlers. Breeding Pairs. Adults. Pure bred
Quantity for sale: Many
Reason for Sale: Spread the genes
Delivery or Collection: Collection
Sales price: £15 for 10 adult
Postage & Packaging: N/A, Collection only
Location: St Albans (next to St Albans Thameslink Station)


Beautiful breeding pairs of adult Black Bar Endlers. Pure bred, never ever mixed with guppies, originally from specialist Endler breeder. A leading London fish shop sells my Endlers from this stock.

Contact to arrange a convenient time. Cash on collection
 

 
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[fishoholic]

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[*pete*]

Hey just realized you're the guy that I collected Cherry shrimps from last week via Gumtree. They're settled in fine and my Guppies give them no hassle at all.
 
 I'm delighted with them and two of the females are in berry already, I've got a 34 ltr set up cycling to have ago at breeding them.
 
I would love to own some of your Endlers but want to keep my Guppy strain pure.
 
Your welcome to the free bump !

 

[fishoholic]

Great to hear the cherry shrimp are doing well and are now carry eggs! That's excellent. It's a good sign that they are happy in your tank.
 
Indeed it certainly wouldn't be wise to mix endlers and guppies. The resulting hybrids would have to be permanently isolated from similar pure strain fish and have little value.
 
Thanks for the bump!

 

[fishoholic]

bumpety bump!

 

[*pete*]

No need for the breeding tank... I've now lost count of how many Cherrys are in my Guppy colony set up and they do a great job tidying up !
 
So thanks again.

 

[Shelster]

If only I lived nearer! They are lovely!

 

[fishoholic]

No need for the breeding tank... I've now lost count of how many Cherrys are in my Guppy colony set up and they do a great job tidying up !
 
So thanks again.

 
Pete - Great to hear the Cherry shrimp are doing well and breeding. I place large 1-2 inch rocks on the substrate of tanks with a mix of shrimp and fish. You can see this in one of the tanks in my signature. Gives baby shrimp lots of places to hide.

If only I lived nearer! They are lovely!

 
Thanks! These seem to be from a decent bloodline.

 

[*pete*]

I took your advice about the pebbles which you told me about when I collected the shrimps from you.
 
Do you feed your shrimps anything special, I just continued with normal feeding when I added the original five pairs to my Guppy colony...Tetra min, frozen and fresh Daphnia from my wildlife pond in the warmer months and crushed boiled pea's.
 
BTW the bit of Java Moss that was in with the Shrimps has taken hold and spreading nicely after I attached it to the Bogwood so that was an unexpected bonus !
 
Cheers.

 

[fishoholic]

I suppose you need to make sure that your cherry shrimp get enough food. Your guppies may be quite aggressive feeders and may only leave tiny scraps for the shrimp. Small sinking pellets tend to work themselves between pebbles in the substrate for shrimp to eat (of course you need to be careful not to overfeed).. I use sinking pellets, with occasional algae wafers and HIkari Crab bites for shrimp.
 
Cherry shrimp should pretty much look after themselves in the setup you described since they have lots of hiding places. My only warning to you - and this can almost immediately kill shrimp - is be very careful when adding new plants to your tank. Many aquatic plants are treated with snailicides when farmed which will kill shrimp and other inverts. Soak suspect plants in a bucket for up to a week with daily water changes to make sure all is well. A few years ago I once soaked some plants for three days before adding to a shrimp tank. My shrimp still reacted to these when I put them in the tank. The instinctive reaction for a shrimp when stressed is to "jump" away from danger so this is the behaviour to look out for when adding new plants to a shrimp tank. Its amusing to see shrimp in the tank repeatedly "jumping" but this is quite serious and you might only have a few minutes to remove the offending plant and do a massive water change.

 

[*pete*]

I forgot to mention I feed them Algae tabs but will get sinking pellets and crab bites for them.
 
Thanks for the advice about new plants, that would never have occurred to me.
 
Another bump for yer !

 

[fishoholic]

Still have some available!

 

[fishoholic]

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