The aFISHionados

07/09/2025

Good morning,

New Items are listed in red on the list. You can view our latest stock list on our website.

A quick note that I will be taking the hound running near Saskatoon on Friday, July 18th and with that I will be bringing orders for drop off along the way. Brandon anticipating around 11 AM, Regina ~2PM and Saskatoon around dinner time depending on stops with the hounds.

Space is on a first come first serve basis and we will hold orders from now till then. Remember with the big van always think heavy things expensive to ship if wanting to really take advantage of the free shipping!

We are anticipating plants in next early next week.

Spencer

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Tuesday October 14th - Calgary Aquarium Society
Saturday, June 27th - The American Cichlid Association - Lexington, KY

06/28/2025

Good afternoon,

New Items are listed in red on the list. You can view our latest stock list on our website.

We have updated the list with the new plants and a few more items.

A quick heads up incase it is not obvious we will be closed on Tuesday, July 1st for Canada Day. A reminder though that with our reduced summer hours we are still open for appointments of 300.00 and more. Please feel free to contact us directly to set up appointments outside of our regular hours. If not a fan of humans, or want the full attention of a 1 on 1 appointment we do suggest these.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask!

Happy Canada Day!

Spencer

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Tuesday October 14th - Calgary Aquarium Society

06/20/2025

Good morning,

New Items are listed in red on the list. You can view our latest stock list on our website.

A number of new items have arrived, highlights of which are;

▪ Slate plecos
▪ Nice sized Chameleon whiptails
▪ Nice sized L191 - broken line royal plecos
▪ Large L177 - yellow seam gold nugget plecos
▪ Myloplus sauron - a true indication scientists have a sense of humor. The eye of sauron
▪ A new Hypostomus chrysostiktos
▪ Golden dorado
▪ Upsized flagtail prochilodus
▪ Smiling acara - Laetacara araguaiae
▪ Couple new tetras for us in Hyphessobrycon stegemanni and micropterus
▪ Aszul peacock bass

Plants are set to arrive early next week next.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask!

Spencer

See Spence Live!

Tuesday October 14th - Calgary Aquarium Society

06/04/2025

Good evening,

New Items are listed in red on the list. You can view our latest stock list on our website.

A number of new items have arrived, highlights of which are;

- Nice sized Cuban cichlids, big enough to breed
- Amatitlania nanolutea one of if not the prettiest of all small - Central American cichlids
- Nice sized Turkis peacock males
- Nice sized Telmatochromis vittatus - a cool pseudo shell dweller from Lake Tanganyika
- Hypostomus laplatae - the red fin Uruguayan pleco. The best of the best algae eaters
- Melanotaenia sp. Kali James
- One sided livebearers from Uruguay - Jenynsia onca

Any questions please do not hesitate to ask!

Spencer

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05/23/2025

Good afternoon,

New Items are listed in red on the list. You can view our latest stock list on our website.

A number of new items have arrived, highlights of which are;

▪ Latest plant shipment is in, including some pond plants
▪ Very nice sized dwarf flat head suckers (Giant otos)
▪ Very nice sized spoon face whiptails
▪ Nice condition antenna whiptails!
▪ Nice condition driftwood catfish
▪ Wild panda corys for the first time in a long time
▪ Nice orange laser corys
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask!

Spencer

See Spence Live!

Tuesday October 14th - Calgary Aquarium Society

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05/10/2025

Good evening,

New Items are listed in red on the list. You can view our latest stock list on our website.

A number of new items have arrived, highlights of which are;
* A number of nice sized Peacock males from Lake Malawi
* First batches of Buccochromis leptura - the Green leptura a fantastic predatory Lake Malawi cichlid
* Dimidiochromis kiwinge - another fantastic predatory Malawi hap!
* Nice sized Neets - Neetroplus nematoplus a personal favorite from Nicaragua
* A number of very cool loach species some of which we have never had before including fantastic rainbow loaches
* Nice sized yellow fin hillstream loach
* Couple of species of Rhinogobius a personal favorite group of fish! Fantastic addition for a planted aquarium looking for an absolute center piece fish

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask! Next up we are anticipating plants to arrive.

Spencer

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Tuesday October 14th - Calgary Aquarium Society

04/23/2025

Good evening,

New Items are listed in red on the list. You can view our latest stock list on our website.

Highlights of the newest arrivals are;
* Nice sized L200 - green phantom plecos
* Banded silver dollars
* Nice sized amazon puffer fish
* Very nice sized Amazon and altum angelfish (this one a small number as they are out of season)
* A rubbernose pleco from our collecting trips last year from a creek humerously named drowned mule creek!
* A number of Betta varieties
* Nice sized Datnioides
* Black devil catfish
* Giant pangius! Tastes great, gets larger than a human
* Lake inle danios a very cool little fish
* Super black rice fish
* Nice sized hairy puffers
* A number of plant varieties

I will be speaking at the Saskatoon Aquarium Society this weekend (April 27) and planning to bring orders along the route on the Saturday the 26th for free shipping. Aiming for Brandon after lunch, Regina later in the afternoon and Saskatoon in the evening. We will now be accepting orders off of the availability on the list now. If you wish to take advantage of free shipping please contact us directly. Will be on a first come first serve basis for the limited space we will have by time stamps starting now to our email address.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask! Next up we are anticipating glofish to arrive.

Spencer

Spence's 50th Birthday Weekend!

February 14/15, 2026

Hans Georg Evers
Hamburg, Germany
Hans is the founding editor of the Amazonas magazine. Hans is a world renowned expert in plecos, rainbow fish, corys among many others. He is also a renowned birder... This will be his second visit to Winnipeg and first in 11 years.

Ad Konings
El Paso, Texas
Ad has always been Spence's idol in fish keeping. Many of his first fish books were that of Ad's. Ad is the world expert on Rift Lake cichlids. While lately he has lost his way and become a birder he is coming out of semi retirement on fish talks for this one event and we cannot be more excited for it. Ad has written dozens of books on cichlids and hundreds of articles. This will be Ad's fourth trip to Winnipeg and first in 13 years.

Tickets for this weekend's events will be 100.00. We will be spending every last penny on the event to make as memorable of a weekend as possible for those in attendance. As space will be very limited we will require either full payment or a down payment of 50.00 to hold your spot. If ever you wanted to travel to Winnipeg to see the warehouse this would definitely be the best event for it. (We have passed 1 third committed). Any questions do not hesitate to ask!

See Spence Live!

Sunday April 27th - Saskatoon Aquarium Society
Tuesday October 14th - Calgary Aquarium Society

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04/19/2025

Good evening,

New Items are listed in red on the list. You can view our latest stock list on our website.

Highlights of the newest arrivals are;

*A number of Brazilian plecos including some we have not had before
* Hypostomus jaguar - a rarer pleco but easy to keep like all Hypostomus
* Golden dorado - Saliminus brasiliensis
* Nice condition Laetacara aragauaiae - one of the prettier of dwarf cichlids out there.
* Nannacara adoketa - zebra acara
* Astronotus crassipinnis - bumble bee oscars (a personal favorite and what is in our first show tank when entering the warehouse for reference for locals)
* Sicce products have been restocked extensively

I will be speaking at the Saskatoon Aquarium Society next weekend (April 27) and planning to bring orders along the route on the Saturday the 26th for free shipping. Aiming for Brandon around lunch time, Regina later in the afternoon and Saskatoon in the evening. We will be accepting dry goods orders now to hold as for live we will start holding and confirming orders this coming Wednesday, April 23rd. If you wish to take advantage of free shipping please contact us directly. Will be on a first come first serve basis for the limited space we will have.

We are planning to have a lot of orders in and ready for our trip to Saskatchewan next week to watch the website for updates to the availability as the list should grow considerably.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask! We will be open regular hours this weekend.

Happy Easter!

Spencer

Spence's 50th Birthday Weekend!

February 14/15, 2026

Hans Georg Evers
Hamburg, Germany
Hans is the founding editor of the Amazonas magazine. Hans is a world renowned expert in plecos, rainbow fish, corys among many others. He is also a renowned birder... This will be his second visit to Winnipeg and first in 11 years.

Ad Konings
El Paso, Texas
Ad has always been Spence's idol in fish keeping. Many of his first fish books were that of Ad's. Ad is the world expert on Rift Lake cichlids. While lately he has lost his way and become a birder he is coming out of semi retirement on fish talks for this one event and we cannot be more excited for it. Ad has written dozens of books on cichlids and hundreds of articles. This will be Ad's fourth trip to Winnipeg and first in 13 years.

Tickets for this weekend's events will be 100.00. We will be spending every last penny on the event to make as memorable of a weekend as possible for those in attendance. As space will be very limited we will require either full payment or a down payment of 50.00 to hold your spot. If ever you wanted to travel to Winnipeg to see the warehouse this would definitely be the best event for it. (We have passed 1 third committed). Any questions do not hesitate to ask!

See Spence Live!

Sunday April 27th - Saskatoon Aquarium Society
Tuesday October 14th - Calgary Aquarium Society

We also have a new employee starting with us this week. Our newest greeter Kyleakin's Rufous Clark Wilhelm Griswold.

04/13/2025

Coming soon to a warehouse near you! ❤️

03/26/2025

Good morning,

New Items are listed in red on the list. You can view our latest stock list on our website.

Highlights of the newest arrivals are;

*A number of domestic and alien Betta varieties
* Nice sized thin barred Tiger Datnoids
* Very nice Amazon Puffers
* A number of plecos
* Few more nano sized livebearers
* Upsized Red Lizard Hillstreams
* Clouded Archer Fish
* A number of nano fish species and shrimp

A reminder that tomorrow is the last day of our winter hours and we will be moving to the summer hours this next weekend. If you wish to come outside of those hours we will gladly set up appointments for orders of 300.00 or more.

Summer Hours

Tuesday - 3:00 - 7:00 PM
Thursday - 3:00 - 7:00 PM
Saturday - 11:00 - 5:00 PM
Sunday - 11:00 - 5:00 PM

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask!

Spencer

Spence's 50th Birthday Weekend!

February 14/15, 2026

Hans Georg Evers
Hamburg, Germany
Hans is the founding editor of the Amazonas magazine. Hans is a world renowned expert in plecos, rainbow fish, corys among many others. He is also a renowned birder... This will be his second visit to Winnipeg and first in 11 years.

Ad Konings
El Paso, Texas
Ad has always been Spence's idol in fish keeping. Many of his first fish books were that of Ad's. Ad is the world expert on Rift Lake cichlids. While lately he has lost his way and become a birder he is coming out of semi retirement on fish talks for this one event and we cannot be more excited for it. Ad has written dozens of books on cichlids and hundreds of articles. This will be Ad's fourth trip to Winnipeg and first in 13 years.

Tickets for this weekend's events will be 100.00. We will be spending every last penny on the event to make as memorable of a weekend as possible for those in attendance. As space will be very limited we will require either full payment or a down payment of 50.00 to hold your spot. If ever you wanted to travel to Winnipeg to see the warehouse this would definitely be the best event for it. (We have passed 1 third committed). Any questions do not hesitate to ask!

See Spence Live!

Sunday April 13th - Louisville Tropical Fish Fanciers
Sunday April 27th - Saskatoon Aquarium Society
Tuesday October 14th - Calgary Aquarium Society

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03/15/2025

Good day,

New Items are listed in red on the list. You can view our latest stock list on our website.

Highlights of the newest arrivals are;

*We received a number of breeding stock of African cichlids most being young breeders coming up as replacements. So is quite female heavy on them. But a few very much oddball cichlids at great sizes and ratios
* Very nice L29- galaxy plecos grown out
* Aru IV - Pseudomugil Gertrudae - a cool dwarf rainbow fish
* Wild red belly piranhas! (far more spunky than the domestics!)
* Black Venezuelan corys

We will be heading to our summer hours as of April 1st. Please take note as there are some big changes with the hours. With how much we are currently doing on the wholesale side of things it is necessary for us to move hours back to allow us to complete shipments before opening our doors to the public.

A reminder as well we do private appointments for orders of 300.00 or more. To book these just send us an email and we can find a mutual time that works for everyone. This you will get one on one time with one of us as well as full access!

Summer Hours - April 1

Tuesday - 3:00-7:00 PM
Thursday - 3:00 - 7:00 PM
Saturday - 11:00 - 5:00 PM
Sunday - 11:00 - 5:00 PM

Next up we are anticipating Glofish to arrive.

Any questions do not hesitate to ask!

Spencer

Spence's 50th Birthday Weekend!

February 14/15, 2026

Hans Georg Evers
Hamburg, Germany
Hans is the founding editor of the Amazonas magazine. Hans is a world renowned expert in plecos, rainbow fish, corys among many others. He is also a renowned birder... This will be his second visit to Winnipeg and first in 11 years.

Ad Konings
El Paso, Texas
Ad has always been Spence's idol in fish keeping. Many of his first fish books were that of Ad's. Ad is the world expert on Rift Lake cichlids. While lately he has lost his way and become a birder he is coming out of semi retirement on fish talks for this one event and we cannot be more excited for it. Ad has written dozens of books on cichlids and hundreds of articles. This will be Ad's fourth trip to Winnipeg and first in 13 years.

Tickets for this weekend's events will be 100.00. We will be spending every last penny on the event to make as memorable of a weekend as possible for those in attendance. As space will be very limited we will require either full payment or a down payment of 50.00 to hold your spot. If ever you wanted to travel to Winnipeg to see the warehouse this would definitely be the best event for it. (We have passed 1 third committed). Any questions do not hesitate to ask!

See Spence Live!

Sunday April 13th - Louisville Tropical Fish Fanciers
Sunday April 27th - Saskatoon Aquarium Society
Tuesday October 14th - Calgary Aquarium Society

Send a message to learn more

03/06/2025

Good evening,

New Items are listed in red on the list. You can view our latest stock list on our website.

Highlights of the newest arrivals are;

▪ The latest plant order has arrived. Included within are a number of nice varieties. The large loose Anubias are particularly of good size
▪ A ridiculous amount of Betta splendens varieties have arrived and are fantastic
▪ Siamese archer fish. Another cool archer fish that is full freshwater!
▪ Starlight eels at a great size!
▪ Black devil catfish. Lives up to all three of its names to the utmost! Last one I kept literally ate its heater on me!
▪ A number of nano fish species
▪ A cool Garra we have not had before in Garra panitvongi
▪ Nice condition T-Barbs

A quick update on state of life these days with tariffs. So far Canada has not retaliated on any of the livestock commodities within the aquarium hobby. I do suspect if things continue this will not be the case in the future. Other then Glofish most of the livestock have workarounds in other countries to work with.

On the dry goods side of things we are positioned well as we have long touted European and Canadian lines. The very few American products we do have we have no plans on restocking during this period of time.

We do feel for a lot of industries that will be heavily affected by the decisions of a few folks down south. But so far we are fairly well insulated from this and will move imports to other suppliers we have in other countries which will remain duty free. So some things may become sparse coming up, however also means some different and new things may come instead too!

Next up we are anticipating African cichlids to arrive next.

Any questions do not hesitate to ask!

Spencer

February 14/15, 2026

Hans Georg Evers
Hamburg, Germany
Hans is the founding editor of the Amazonas magazine. Hans is a world renowned expert in plecos, rainbow fish, corys among many others. He is also a renowned birder... This will be his second visit to Winnipeg and first in 11 years.

Ad Konings
El Paso, Texas
Ad has always been Spence's idol in fish keeping. Many of his first fish books were that of Ad's. Ad is the world expert on Rift Lake cichlids. While lately he has lost his way and become a birder he is coming out of semi retirement on fish talks for this one event and we cannot be more excited for it. Ad has written dozens of books on cichlids and hundreds of articles. This will be Ad's fourth trip to Winnipeg and first in 13 years.

Tickets for this weekend's events will be 100.00. We will be spending every last penny on the event to make as memorable of a weekend as possible for those in attendance. As space will be very limited we will require either full payment or a down payment of 50.00 to hold your spot. If ever you wanted to travel to Winnipeg to see the warehouse this would definitely be the best event for it. (We have passed 1 third committed). Any questions do not hesitate to ask! If ever wanting to come see our warehouse this is a prime opportunity.

See Spence Live!

Sunday April 13th - Louisville Tropical Fish Fanciers
Sunday April 27th - Saskatoon Aquarium Society

Send a message to learn more