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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dave Jay" data-source="post: 132501" data-attributes="member: 27677">My experience over 35 years buying cichlids is that the best 'finds' were from little pet shops that had no idea about cichlids except they were nasty fish that kill everything, that's where I always found the rarities and illegal contaminants. Knowledgeable shopkeepers knew that the fish were not the species they ordered or that the guy selling little brown fish was selling a hard to find species, the Mum and Dad owners just want their five bucks!I always used to check them out, that's where you can pick up a rare species for the price of a common one if YOU know what you're looking at! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>