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I'm thinking of attending the Catfish Study Group auction in Darwen this weekend.

I'm trying to find out more details about the event including the start time, but I can't find much on the CSG website or elsewhere online. I tried emailing the contact listed on the website (Mark) last week but had no response. I am a CSG member.

I gather there is some discussion of the event on Facebook, but I'm not on Facebook and I can't view the CSG pages as a guest.

Could someone point me towards any more information on the event?

Many thanks,
Paul

Mark is on here as @CoryWally, the start time is 1pm. Details as posted on Facebook are below.



Jools

Thanks Jools

Is it mandatory to register lots in advance, or can I do that on the day?
I was thinking of bringing a group of Crenuchus Spilurus if they are eligible (not being catfish)
Cheers,
Paul

Yes you can and you can sell any fish.

Jools

Eric @bekateen has kindly copied the list of lots currently on Facebook, reproduced below (grouped by seller).
I will bring a group of Crenuchus spilurus, and maybe a couple of small Synos.

I look forward to meeting some of you there!
Cheers, Paul.


L260, Queen arabesque, and L340

breeding groups of Corydoras gryphus and Corydoras longipinnis, F1 Scleromystax kronei and lacerdai, F1 Peckoltia lujani, wild Baryancistrus demantoides L200, Wild group Ancistrus macrophthalmus LDA074.

C. schultzii "Black", gold Ancistrus, adult C. sterbai, large adult C. napoensis, small C. panda, Assorted rainbow fish, Boesemani, and Blue rainbow fish and a few other bits

Super red ancistrus
Red lizard whiptails
C125 aspidoras gold
C.caudimaculatus
C.similis
C.panda white breeding trio
C.osteocarus breeding trio
Brachyrhamdia imitator
Galaxy rasboras
Phallocerus caudimaculatus livebearers
Girardinus metallicus, black chin livebearers, Plus maybe a few other corys, livebearers

extra large breeding pr of super-red ancistrus
proven breeding pr of adl08 clara marble ancistrus
a female adl08 ancisrtrus
super-red ancistrus young
adl08 ancistrus young large pr brown bristle noses young brown b/noses
corydoras---
venezuela blacks
cw010 gold
weitzmani
duplicareus
gossei
robustus [adults] sterbai cw23 orange laser
hastatus
cherry shrimp
crystal shrimp and any thing else that gets near a net

CW021 and C112

From another CSG Facebook post, here are more species which will be for sale at the CSG auction:

### General Tropical Fish ###

• Croaking Gourami
  Sparkling Gourami
  Golden Marble Angels
  Platinum Angels
  LRG Silver Angels
  Boesemani rainbows, F1 lake aytinjo
  Neon Rainbows (praecox)
  Archocentrus Sp. ' Honduran Red Point' (HRP's)
  Marble HRP's
  Copper Harlequin Rasbora
  Ruby Tetra
  Red Phantom Tetra
  Cardinal Tetra
  Syno Species {Comment from Bekateen - Hey! These are catfish; shouldn't they be listed separately from the "General Tropical Fish" category? They deserve better! }

#### Discus (All recently wormed) ####

• 2" Red Turks
  2" Snakeskins
  2" Marlboro Reds
  3" Red Turks
  3.5" Marlboro reds

### Plecs ###

• L201
  
  
  L201
  'Big Spot'
  
  L333
  
  
  L190
  
  
  L200
  
  
  L340
  
  
  L104
  
  
  Ancistrus
  (Bristlenose)
  
  Otocinclus Affinis

### Corydoras ###

• Corydoras Delphax
  
  
  C141
  
  
  Pygmy cory
  
  
  Corydoras Concolor
  
  
  Corydoras Habrosus
  
  
  Corydoras Robineae
  
  
  Corydoras Ehrhardti
  
  Adult
  Corydoras Sterbai

Thanks Eric - some great additions there
I think I'm going to take my two synos (flavitaeniatus and nigriventris) as well as my sailfin tetras. Hopefully I'll come back with something!

Good hunting, friend. Our local fish club is having its semi-annual "mega auction" in March, but as good as it is, it will pale in comparison to the CSG auction in terms of the catfish offerings (our club members tends to sell unique African cichlids and New world livebearers).

If I was at your auction, I would grab the B. imitator and C. robineae (both on my "wishlist" list), the C141 (but only if it's real C141 (not ornatus) to go with the three I have already), C. robustus and L201 (neither on my wishlist, but both are species I've eyed before). And why isn't there any L397 for sale?

Cheers, Eric

P.S., So far, nobody has responded on the GSG FaceBook page to my inquiry about L244 for sale. Sorry, bud; I guess it's just not that available.
- Eric

Hi Eric, the L397s aren't always available here, I look around online quite regularly for opportunities for introducing new bloodlines. In my online searches, I've seen them selling via ebay, one of which is the guy that breeds mine, his turnover is slow and some of his stock are almost adults. He also sells via other means so I need to be really careful with checking the source. Another LFS not far from me has had them a few times, but again I checked out the source. The other ebay seller, is very few and far between. Another online search returns: Tropical Fish Finder and Wildwoods where you can put the fish you want in and it will tell you if and where its available, but when it has returned a positive result, I've then contacted the LFSs and found it's actually not in stock. I haven't seen them advertised online anywhere else. I then checked Pier Aquatics, but only as Mol_PMB mentioned in a thread he got his there, I found them at another known for selling rare fish LFS, both had them in stock, but weren't delivering because of the cold weather. I'm not saying it's more or less impossible because if I went around checking stock lists some of the more popular or well known for rarer fish LFSs I'd probably find them. And there's surely got to be a few more breeding these.

Hi Teresa, thanks for the explanation, I really appreciate the detail. And with that, I don't know how to break the news to you... I was being somewhat cheeky when I posed that question.

Cheers, Eric

That's ok, was thinking it's about the fact it's difficult to obtain these in the US, and merely pointing out its not easy here either, unless I obtain more from the same source.

Teresa, would you be interested in my group?

Are you wanting to sell them on? Can you ship them? I'd also need to make some space, possibly by rehoming my youngest ones as adding another 3 females and a male to my set up would be really pushing it. However the opportunity to add some new adult bloodlines isn't one I would say no to.

For those of you that are attending have a great time. If you pick something up please post for those of us that was not fortunate to go.

Great event, lots of interesting fish and other stuff sold at some keen prices.
Thanks to the organisers and Mark the auctioneer

I sold my two synos and my sailfin tetras for good prices, and spent the proceeds on the Brachyrhamdia imitator and 3 Brochis splendens (I already have a shoal of these and the price was good) plus some plants and food.

There were gorgeous Hypans selling for as little as £8 but I restrained myself!

New friends from the CSG auction, still settling in to the QT
I really like the Brachyrhamdia; this is my second species of them (the other is a meesi).
I wonder if he/she would mix happily with C048 (which I already have)?

Very nice. Do you know if you got mixed sexes of imitator?

Cheers, Eric

There was only one imitator! So no breeding to be attempted just yet in afraid.

PS I'll get back to you both about the L397s tomorrow - need to have a think and I'm a bit busy at the mo.
cheers,
Paul