Canadian Aquatics

2011-07-18T09:14:00.000-07:00

From Brazil, wild classic P13 Leopoldi - July/18/2011

Close up photos

Cell phone photos when they landed.

2011-07-18T09:04:00.000-07:00

New L# plecos - July/18/2011

L14 Sunshine, L15 Candy stripe, L177 Queen nugget, L75 Sabaji, and Ancistrus sp. Green spot from Peru.

A few more stingrays - July/01/2011

2011-07-01T08:43:00.000-07:00

Stingray Motoro, Scobina - belem, and Hystrix sp. Peru.

Fish available - July/01/2011

2011-07-01T08:11:00.000-07:00

White trumpet knife fish (Orthostemarchus tamandua), Gold xantus (Parancistrus aurantiacus), L226 Tiger panaque, Ancistrus sp. (un-id one, it has a very light green spotting on the top half of the body), Anaconda swamp eel (Simbranchus marmoratus), Huapeta - tatauaia, Mutante catfish (Rhynchodoras woodsi), Foxface catfish, Coral red pencil fish, Marble hatchet fish, Jumbo corydora (Brochis multiradiatus), and Cupido cichlid.

News - June/18/2011

2011-06-18T16:55:00.000-07:00

Sorry we have not been updating this blog for a while. We have been very busy this year with our fresh water aquarium services as well as our importing of fish from around the world.

But we promise we will be doing more updating this year. We are also doing a facebook update as well for our facebook customers. Just do a look up on facebook for "Charles at Canadian Aquatics".

So come back and check with us on our new coming this year. You won't be disappointed with our wild fish stocks...

Fish available - June/18/2011

2011-06-18T16:15:00.001-07:00

Blue eye panaque 10.5", L147 peckoltia sp., L128 blue phantom

Wild rams, Australoheros sp. forquilha, Golden dorado (Salminus brasilensis)

Stripe silver dollar and spotted silver dollar

Markiana nigripinnis, Pepper cory, Green fire tetra, Cardinal tetra, and Bloodfin tetra

Teacup stingrays, marble motoro stingrays

Geophagus surinamensis and Gymnogeophagus balzanii

Other community and oddballs...

2010-09-11T09:30:00.000-07:00

Apistogramma Macmastery, Hemiodopsis gracillis, Severum - hero appendicularis, Flagtail - semaprochilodus taeniurus, Tiger knifefish, Silver arawana, Hatchet - carnegiella marthae, Corydora melinin, Altum angel, and Tefe discus.

Marble motoro

2010-09-11T09:28:00.001-07:00

Here are a few photos of our new marble motoro. They are range between 6.5" for the smaller one, to 8-9", to 12"...

Cichlids...

2010-09-11T09:23:00.001-07:00

Cichlasoma ornatus, umbriferus (though this one might be a mis-ID, and I am hoping someone will be able to correct me), Cichlasoma atromaculatum, and myersi.

Geophagus...

2010-09-11T09:14:00.000-07:00

Photo 1-3 geophagus red hump, photo - 4-5 geophagus daemon, and photo 6 - geophagus sur inamensis.

We have a few geophagus. Limited quantity of adults and many many juv. fish. The following photos are all adult fish except the geophagus surinamensis. We also had very few adult geophagus pelligrini but they were all picked up before I have a chance to photograph them.

A few new plecos...

2010-09-11T09:08:00.000-07:00

L273 Titanic, Blue eye panaque, and L27 Xingu.
Especially the L273 and L27, they came in at very poor condition. After a month of carefully monitor and feed (mainly fresh vegetable every day and pellet twice a week), they are finally in excellent condition. The bigger size of them also helped them to recover faster. The L273 titanic is between 3.5"-4" and the L27 Xingu is at least 9-10".

Few other plecos

2010-05-30T22:14:00.000-07:00

L14 sunshine, L137 red fin blue eye, L155 acanthicus hystrix, L160 spiney monster, L199 hyrancistrus furunculus, L200 green phantom, L200a high fin green phantom, L201 gold spot, L202 peckoltia sp., and L226 Tiger panaque.

L46 Zebra pleco F1 babies

2010-05-30T22:05:00.000-07:00

Finally, after a few tries, the L46 zebra F1 babies are finally safe. This group has spawned a few times but only lately, the last two batches (after many tries with different raising baby methods) are on their way to grow... The first batch is about 2.5 months old is about 1". The second batch is 3/4". The first photo is the male. And the rest are the babies.

First batch = 15 babies. Second batch = 19 babies.

A few other fish

2010-04-13T22:51:00.001-07:00

Bowfin, Apistogramma cactuoide, Banjo catfish, Barracuda sp. yellow tail, and Peacock bass - ocellaris...

Something else I found in and outside of my tanks

2010-04-13T22:46:00.001-07:00

Barracuda yellow tail, a 2"+ whisker from my blue eye panaque, Flower stinger, Flower stinger, and motoro stinger - flower stinger - flower stinger...

a few plecos...

2010-04-13T22:34:00.001-07:00

L25 Scarlet, L46 Zebra, L114 Leopard cactus, L168 Dekeyseria barchyura, L190 royal - jumbo, L199 Hyprancistrus Furunculus, L200 Green phantom, L200a High fin green phantom, L201 Gold spot, L202 Peckoltia sp., L226 Tiger Panaque, L273 Titanic, and L340 Megaclown

2010-03-22T09:26:00.001-07:00

Thai silk flowerhorn

2010-03-22T09:16:00.000-07:00

A couple of our second time import of Thai silk flowerhorn. Top view and side view video.

More new fish

2010-03-22T09:05:00.000-07:00

Pterophyllum scalare angels, banjo cat, juruense cat, tigrinus cat, L152 pinapple, trachycory cat, moenkausia agnesae, driftwood cat, and green tefe discus.

More discus photos...

2010-02-26T21:05:00.001-08:00

A few more discus photos. Yellow eyes, red eyes, spotted, and blue.

More new fish ...

2010-02-24T22:49:00.000-08:00

Discus - regular and semi-spotted, Platystomatichthys sturio (foxface catfish), Pseudohemiodon lamina (loricara circular), Hemiodontichthys acipenserinus (loricara pinocho), L88 ancistrus sp., Tatia perugiae (driftwood catfish), and finally Colomesus asellus (South American lung fish).

A few new fish in Feb/2010

2010-02-12T23:30:00.000-08:00

Blue eye panaque 15", L190 royal 12", L90 papa 7", L351 lyre tail panaque, Pike cichlid sp. red, Loricara sp. antenna, Red wolf fish, Niger cat, Irwini cat, Wild black arawana 10"

A few more plecos...

2010-01-01T09:26:00.000-08:00

Blue eye panaque, LDA33 / L142 Mega snowball, L106 Orange seam, L177 Queen nugget, Gold xantus (2 photos), L14 Sunshine, L253 Scobinancistrus sp, L47 Mango, L129 Columbian zebra

More plecos

2009-10-03T23:11:00.001-07:00

L90 papa

L226 tiger panaque

More corydoras

2009-10-03T23:07:00.000-07:00

Brochis multiradiatus

Loretoensis

Agassizii

A few new rare knife fish

2009-10-03T23:02:00.000-07:00

12" Orthostemarchus tamandue

Gold line

Carapo

Altum angel

2009-08-31T10:06:00.000-07:00

Altum angel - no flash, no light, just natural light coming from the window. They show much more of their color than with aquarium light. This photo is taken a day after they arrived. This is by far the best I ever received altum angel. A bit of fin burn on the tails on only some of them. Most are showing no stress at all.

This photo is taken with the dual T5 on with flash.

This photo is taken with dual T5 without flash. The bar on the altum got turn off as they are not used to the high light.

Corydoras!!!

2009-07-13T18:37:00.000-07:00

Fowleri

Metae

Skunk

Agassizi

Reticulatus

Here are a few plecos came in on the month of June

2009-06-30T09:54:00.000-07:00

L52 Butterfly

L128 Blue phantom

L152 Pinapple

L190 Red eye royal

L199 Hyprancistrus furunculus

L200 Green phantom

L200a Green phantom - High fin

L201 Hyprancistrus sp. Gold spot

L235 Flyer cat

L239 Blue panaque

L244 Pseudolithoxus dumus

L330 Watermelon

L418 Gold trim panaque

South American oddballs

2009-05-13T16:32:00.000-07:00

We bring in quite a selection of oddballs all over the world. We have fish from South America, Africa (all lakes and rivers), to Southeast Asia.

We will show some of the oddballs from South American here. This is our actual fish. None of the photos are taken from anyone else but our collection.

Enjoy...

Bottlenose catfish - very young at only 3". I have a few in that were 8" or so. Very active catfish and will eat just about anything small. It is one of those catfish that doesn't have any whiskers. As adult, another name for it is hammarhead catfish cause the shape of the head.

Hydrolicus tatuaia sp. red tail - what can I say... they have big teeth. They have a different way of hunting as well. All they have to do is open they mouths wide and rush into their prey. They sharp teeth will snag the smaller fish and very little chance for the small prey to escape.

Fresh water Barracuda sp. red tail - sharp teeth, fast, and quite amazing. They can school together with their kinds. But anything small; say a school of neon, every one of these barracuda will rush in the cloud of small fish and start darting everywhere to catch them till they are gone.

Tiger knife fish - most amazing pattern knife fish in my opinion. I have a chance to bring in some good size one; up to 12"... Very active fish but depends on tankmates, can be shy at time.

Zebra knife fish - quite opposite of what tiger knife fish is as in appearance. The zebra knife fish is black base body color with golden stripes. I have them in a corner tank so photo through curve glass is impossible for me to get a clear photo.

Dragon knife fish - still in its juv. form. They are only about 6" long so the nose hasn't extended yet. Can't get a good photo so I thought I would show them off with a short video.

Marble motoro and flower stingrays

2009-05-13T14:17:00.000-07:00

Welcome to our first blog message. We will try to update our aquarium creatures here with photos and updates so you can see the fish that we have.

I quickly took a few photos so you can see our rays; mainly marble motoro. These rays are what we had. So you can see the quality of fish that we carry.