Newsletter 05-8-25

Thursday, May 8, 2025

Get your otos while you can

World's largest Florida Flag Fish. They're not all this big but there are some giants in the mix.

Hey folks,
another great week of incoming from everywhere. Unfortunately a lot of it came in late last night so the commentary are going to be rather brief since I've been taking pics since the crack of dawn. Besides , I figure most of you would rather have an abundance of pics of all the new stuff versus me droning on about this that and the other thing so onto the fish.

I'll start with the most exciting and that's definitely the far east shipments. My absolute favorite item to come in are the Albino Heckelii. I have been ordering these for nearly a year now and they finally came in for the first time. These did not disappoint. They were listed at 5-6cm and they are definitely that. Now that may not sound impressive but I was expecting them to come in very small, say barely an inch. These are big enough to already be showing some iridescence sheen to them and they're not far off from displaying some red. If you're not familiar with this variation Google them. They are incredible once they fully color up.

My next favorite are the Royal Clown knives. They may only be 3" but they look awesome. Tons of stripes on these which will eventually turn into multiple rows of spots. Had an adult one of these on display at one of my stores for years and it was a show stopper. They are definitely worth the extra money over the regular Clown Knives which we also got in this week. I would recommend grabbing both that way you can give your customers price point options. At the opposite end of the spectrum we got in striped Kuhli Loaches for the first time in ages. For whatever reason these have just not been available and we've only been getting in the less attractive blacks. And Speaking of Loaches we also got restocks on regular and what I would say are the brightest Gold Dojos I've ever seen. These are lemon yellow. Usually not a huge fan but these are gorgeous.

Not trying to let the far east still the show this week but they knida have. In addition to everything else I've mentioned we also got in Orange Chromides. This is one of the few species of Asian cichlids to make it into the hobby on a commercial level. This is an aquarium strain of the species and is much more attractive than it's natural occurring counterpart. Definitely recommend feeding these guys foods rich in beta carotene to help keep they're reddish orange color glowing. Some ore common restocks in this week include both Spotted and Figure 8 puffers. Always fan favorites but also both brackish so be sure to keep a bit of salt on them to keep them looking their best.

Got more restocks on Colombia this week so you got zeroed on anything last week we should have better numbers on it this time around. The one standout item that I know we ran out of are the wild Oscars. This weeks batch looks every bit as good as the last one if not a bit better. And we not only got really good numbers on some of the Plecos, we have enough that we're actually putting the Colombian Snowballs on special this week. Can't remember the last time we had the volume to do that. And speaking of specials we've got a great selection of a ton of items at exceptional prices. Check out that section down below.

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The Sales Team
5D Tropical, Inc

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Colombia

Flagtail Prochilodus

Brochis Cory

Rubber Pleco

Farlowella

Striped Raphael Cat

Spotted Raphael Cat

Silver Hatchet

Wild Oscar

Asia Imports

Chili Rasbora

Medium Blood Parrot

Spotted Puffer

Figure 8 Puffer

Orange Chromide

3" Clown Knife

Kuhli Loach

Dojo

Gold Dojo

Albino Pacu

Drapefin Barb

HF Black Skirt Tetra

X-ray Tetra

BB Goby

Blue Tiger Parrot

Large Fancy Mix Angel

Large Steindachneri

Snowball Pleco

White Wizard Snail

Community

Gold Honey Gourami

Blue Gourami

Purple Het Rasbora

Celebese Rainbow

Signifer Rainbow

Red Rainbow

Tetras

Blue Tetra

Glow Light Tetra

Silver Tip Tetra

Rosy Tetra

Lemon Tetra

Cichlids

Red Spot Gold Severum

Albino Oscar

3" Cuban Cichlid

5" Braziliansis

5" Red Devil

Medium Escondido Carpintis might be the best looking Central/Southie on hand this week so I got a better pic than what I had last week.

Old World Cichlids

Albino Sunshine Peacock

4" Import Peacock

Albino Compressiceps found in the Large Assorted Hap mix.

Medium Rusty

Medium Mix Hap

Hot Picks of the Week

Marlboro Red Discus

Albino Heckelii

Turkana Jewels were featured last week but they had just gotten here and weren't showing any color. They're really starting to pop now only problem is the second you put them in a net they drop quite a bit of color. But as you can see in the pic the color some of them are sporting.

3" Royal Clown Knives are super stripey.

Orange & Black Halloween Crab

Plecos & Pals

Large Albino Bushynose

Medium Longfin Bushynose

Redtail Cat

2.5" Hoplo Cats are way oversize, closer to 3"-4"

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