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As a general rule with our farm, if you place your order online by Monday @ 9am Arizona MST, we will do our best to get your order shipped to you the very same week by Wednesday. This is pending availability & weather of course. Orders placed by Sunday night have a better fill rate to ship the same week by Wednesday. There is a delicate, tedious, timeline process to efficiently & properly package live tropical fish & plants, so we must follow a weekly schedule filled with daily deadlines that allow us to ship 100’s of orders each week reliably & efficiently, providing our happy customers with healthy quality livestock! Please & thank you for the extra consideration and understanding of what is involved to get a box of live fish delivered to your door safely. We are a trusted source for over 3 decades, so please be on the look out for your emailed tracking number when your order ships from our farm! Please read your emailed customer receipt for details and helpful links. You can locate most helpful links at the bottom of any page of this site.
There is always the potential risk of loss from any supplier when shipping perishable items & livestock, but in the unfortunate event your order is delivered with a loss of a fish, shrimp, snail or plant, simply report your casualty to us immediately upon delivery by using our Loss Reporting Process located at the bottom of every page on this site. Qualifying orders will get store credit to use on your next purchase! Read this link for details. Thank you!
Visit our SHIPPING link below Here, you can learn about our Shipping Schedule & collection procedures and practices that our family has perfected & streamlined for 3 decades! This link is also located at the bottom of every page on this site under “Shipping Schedule” and will provide detailed info that will help you understand how the ordering fish & plants process all works. Once you place your order, all customer’s get an immediate emailed receipt that will have helpful links & detailed information to assist with common questions about your order’s fulfilment process. Thank you friends!
These South American Cichlids, Central American Cichlids & North American Cichlids form a wonderful group of fish known as New World Cichlids
Most of the Central & North American cichlids are monogamous substrate breeders. South American cichlids and a good part of the Central & North American cichlids originate from one single lineage: the Cichlasomine. Central and North American cichlids that do not originate from Cichlasomine are found in Panama and have developed in South America who then later reached Panama. Since Central & North American cichlids inhabit various waters in a large region of the world, they have naturally adapted to different water conditions and their preferences will vary when it comes to water chemistry, temperature and more.
Fish Temperaments & Attitudes
Most New World Cichlids in this category are peaceful! In fact, ALL Dwarf New World Cichlids are peaceful but also should be kept in groups or colonies for best results. We do not recommend ordering just 2 of any fish assuming you will get a pair, because we do not sell sexed or paired fish unless specified. Here’s a good tip: Example: if you wanted a pair of Apistogramma Borelli, you might want to order 6 or 8 Borelli, allow them to grow together and wait for your females to choose her mate from your batch. This is typical behavior for many fish. ALL fish, regardless of genus may become territorial while breeding, and often this behavior is curbed or eliminated by use of proper stocking of larger colonies of same genus of fish or offering substantial habitat of plants, rocks & driftwood which will make most fish feel more comfortable with their surroundings and calm them down. Many North American Cichlids (except the EBJD or Powder Blue Jack Dempsey) are generally aggressive fish, but will do well in larger tanks with many of it’s own type. Example: a tank full of Firemouth Meeki Cichlids is beautiful & generally peaceful, whereas you would not want to add 1 Firemouth Meeki to a community tank. If you ever need our help in putting together an order of these New World Cichlids, please feel free to contact us. We play with these animals every single day since 1987 and know virtually all there is to know about these animals. We know what is compatible, hearty, pretty, ugly, mean, nice, easy, etc. We are here to help!