[CKJ]

I have fallen in love with endlers but just can't seem to find them anywhere locally. Are they always that hard to find? The 3 local places act like they've never heard of them when I called them and asked.

 

[wendyjo]

I can never find them locally either.

 

[Axelrodi202]

I've only seen one store carry them, and even there it was only males. Sometimes people will sell them on the Swap & Shop forum here, and there a lot of them on AquaBid too.

 

[CKJ]

Was trying to keep from having to spend alot on shipping and get them locally. And at this point I don't even care if they are pure. At least not yet.

We haven't had the best luck breeding guppies so my son and I would love to try the endlers.

It seems though that I may have to buy them here on the s&s though but i'll know that i'll get good stuff from here if I have to buy them online.

 

[nalu86]

look in the live fish food section in your LFS.

 

[CKJ]

Thanks Nalu86 should I be asking for feeder guppies instead of endlers? I know they all have feeder goldfish but never really noticed anything else.

 

[mistergreen]

Feeder guppies aren't exactly endlers.

There the local forums
http://www.plantedtank.net/forums/illinois/

Ask around guppies/endler forums for somebody local.

 

[nalu86]

Feeder guppies aren't exactly endlers.

There the local forums
http://www.plantedtank.net/forums/illinois/

Ask around guppies/endler forums for somebody local.

I noticed once in a petland there were endlers in between the feeder guppys. Thats why I recommend to check the feeder fish section.

 

[CKJ]

I had already looked in that area and the last 4 posts in the illinois area are all up in the chicago area which is hours away and those posts range from 2010-2007.

I'll try looking for some local endler guppy forums though. Thanks

And i'll try another round of calls. We don't have petland here so i'll call our mom and pop plase called The Fish Man Pet Center and as much as I am not fond of petsmart and petco i'll call them again too.

We may just endup trying guppies again

 

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http://swampriveraquatics.com/ Is the source for pure endlers.

Most of the members here will sell to you.
http://endlers-usa.com/

 

[CKJ]

Already been to endlers usa. Most of their for sale stuff posts are pretty old or mainly wanted to buy posts.

And still really not wanting to spend a ton of money buying online. Had no idea this fish would be so expensive and hard to find locally.

Have joined a could sort of local groups yahoo groups which are still at least 2 hours away in hopes that someone that's truly local might have some.

 

[mistergreen]

I wouldn't worry about the price if you need to buy online. If they breed like guppies, you'll have a colony soon and you can sell them off (online or to lfs) to recoup the original cost.

 

[CKJ]

Don't think mine would do that. Had a nice big pleco that I had to rehome and they'd only take him on donation. So unless petsmart or petco does that I might be out of luck on that idea. lol

 

[toddnbecka]

I have a few hundred pure endler's, mixed black bar and peacock available, also have dozens of blondes (only show red pigment, not quite albino's) in another tank. Priority Mail shipping to OH from MD would be around $7, probably less than the cost of gas to drive to an lfs these days.

 

[CKJ]

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