Lake Victoria Basin, West African, Madagascar & Asian Species • Selling Flamebacks
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Selling Flamebacks
I have a group of 45 Flameback fry that are about a month and a half old, and which I would like to sell at some point. How old will they need to be to color up so I can sell them? They're about half an inch long now. Thanks!
- Jillian83
- Joined: Thu Jan 13, 2011 11:23 pm
- Location: Texas
Re: Selling Flamebacks
It will depend on who you're selling to, and what they want. A LFS may want mature fish they can resell immediately. Let them tell you what they want. A hobbyist may want young fry they can raise and watch the fish mature. I like to wait until my fry are at an inch or so to sell to a hobbyist, but I often sell smaller than that when I know someone is looking for my fish. I've never sold to a LFS, but I have heard 2" is a common minimum for Africans at some places.
75g demasoni, caeruleus, fuelleborni
75g chromogynos, zebroides "cobue",
75g J. ornatus, calvus, Cyp. "Dwarf Jumbo"
55g P. "Red Flank",
55g H. "Ruby Green"
A. "pucallpa", S. petriclola
75g chromogynos, zebroides "cobue",
75g J. ornatus, calvus, Cyp. "Dwarf Jumbo"
55g P. "Red Flank",
55g H. "Ruby Green"
A. "pucallpa", S. petriclola
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AlphaWild - Joined: Thu Apr 09, 2009 11:24 am
- Location: Pataskala, OH
Re: Selling Flamebacks
1" is the legal minimum to sell from a LFS (at least in New York). In my [limited] experience, it usually takes them close to 1" to really be sure they are going to be healthy and make it through adolescence anyway.
- jayzerus
- Joined: Wed Jun 22, 2011 10:06 pm
- Location: Upstate New York
Re: Selling Flamebacks
jayzerus wrote:1" is the legal minimum to sell from a LFS (at least in New York). In my [limited] experience, it usually takes them close to 1" to really be sure they are going to be healthy and make it through adolescence anyway.
Legal?
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Fogelhund - Joined: Tue Dec 03, 2002 12:34 am
- Location: ON, Canada
Re: Selling Flamebacks
I think that's what she said.
- jayzerus
- Joined: Wed Jun 22, 2011 10:06 pm
- Location: Upstate New York
Re: Selling Flamebacks
Jillian83 wrote:They're about half an inch long now.
I wonder when aquarists say 1/2" long if they really mean, litteraly 1/2" long

Newly released mbuna fry are 1/2" long. That speck on my hand:

Here's the same fish on a measuring tape, measured at almost 1/2" ( 7/16" to be exact-----tail starts 1/16" before the 2" mark and the mouth ends at the 2 3/8" mark)):

But I know it's just generally meant that the fish is small

- bernie comeau
- Joined: Mon Feb 19, 2007 2:38 am
- Location: saskatoon, SK Canada
Re: Selling Flamebacks
There is a wide range. My chromogynos fry are about half the size of my demasoni fry when spit (or stripped at maturity). But true, i am a terrible estimator, so I often have 1/2" and 1" marks sticky-noted to my fry tanks.
75g demasoni, caeruleus, fuelleborni
75g chromogynos, zebroides "cobue",
75g J. ornatus, calvus, Cyp. "Dwarf Jumbo"
55g P. "Red Flank",
55g H. "Ruby Green"
A. "pucallpa", S. petriclola
75g chromogynos, zebroides "cobue",
75g J. ornatus, calvus, Cyp. "Dwarf Jumbo"
55g P. "Red Flank",
55g H. "Ruby Green"
A. "pucallpa", S. petriclola
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AlphaWild - Joined: Thu Apr 09, 2009 11:24 am
- Location: Pataskala, OH
Re: Selling Flamebacks
Hey here in about 4-5 months ill be setting up a tank for those guys and im gonna need about 12 of them if your willing to ship them to me ill buy some from ya.....
"I am, what i am, because i am." <Popeye
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ratbones86 - Joined: Thu Jun 28, 2012 11:53 pm
- Location: greensburg, IN
Re: Selling Flamebacks
Which flamebacks you have? I'm looking for kyoga flamebacks if that's what you have
"I am, what i am, because i am." <Popeye
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ratbones86 - Joined: Thu Jun 28, 2012 11:53 pm
- Location: greensburg, IN
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