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Danio choprae

I almost listed this one too. I was lucky enough to be one of the first to bring this fish to the US about 3-4 years ago. Being a danio, I was not sure of really wanting it, but I said what the heck and took them. Much to my surprise, I was very impressed with these fish. So I bred the heck out of them. Back then I was getting upwards of $40 per fish for the fry! But, as easily as they were to breed (like all other danios), Soon they came down in the $5 each range.

This is kind of the example I was stating about where you are located and how rare a fish is. Because around my area, it is flooded with these fish now. They are in most every lfs now. But, many areas of the US have yet to see them. As many parts of the world have yet to see them as well.

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There is always a bigger fish...

Acidrain, there are ptobably lots of Channa bleheri in the US...ban aside, they were not terriblyy uncommon just a couple of years back, and they breed like rabbits.

I have had this lonely guy now for about 5 years. A couple of years back is when I was trying everything to breed them. The only info available back then was one breeder's report. And snakeheads.org still only lists that one breeder's report. Mine never did anything, as I wished very hard that they would have. I had offers of $50 US for each 1 month old fry, and that was from several of my wholesalers. But I never got anything from them. Now my gauchuas, yes I made a small mint off of them, actually doubled the size of my total water quanity in my fish room, and re-did part of the fish room. I only have one now, and no chance of getting another, so my breeding of them is non-existant now, lol. Oh well, the thrill was there for a few years though.

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There is always a bigger fish...

my rarest is my L147 (or not even sure if thats what it is just from photo ids) but the villagers in columbia call it a villavo pleco

Probably a trio of phenochilus placidochromis..not that common in stores.

american freshwater eel , native to the great lakes can live up to 20 years my ex got them for $20 each

90g- anguilla rostrata,6 silver dollars,2 pictus catfish 60 g- anguilla rostrata 29g-4 blk skirt&4 serpia tetras, 6 harliquin resbora, 3kuhli loach 20g- 2 mountian minnows, 2 zebra danio& dojo loach , a corn snake and 2 monster dogs

Acidrain, there are ptobably lots of Channa bleheri in the US...ban aside, they were not terriblyy uncommon just a couple of years back, and they breed like rabbits.

My most rare are probably the Polypterus retropinnis lowei, Polycentropsis abbrieviata, Ctenopoma congicum, Ctenopoma fasciolatum, and some of the odd locale killies.

probably the altolamprologus calvus i'm gonna pick up tomorrow.

Although in general they aren't rare, Calvus are impossible to find where I am and after searching for ages i've finally found some. Before this i've only ever seen one 5cm calvus and it was a fortune.

Last edited by PJ at 05-Sep-2005 01:14

Synodontis eupterus

I think I got it for about $6 usd. Most places if they have them are about 15 to 20 bucks here..

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To my knowledge, I am the only aquarist in the United States to possess the following species of freshwater shrimp (personally collected in Puerto Rico): Atya lanipes, Macrobrachium acanthurus, undetermined Palaemonetes sp. (assuredly not P. paludosus, P. kadiakensis, or the like), and Xiphocaris elongata.

i just got 2 julii corys today. i don't know how rare they are in the warmer climates, but they're pretty rare in the maritime prov. of canada

This is kind of the example I was stating about where you are located and how rare a fish is. Because around my area, it is flooded with these fish now. They are in most every lfs now. But, many areas of the US have yet to see them. As many parts of the world have yet to see them as well.

Same... Every LFS here has them as well. They are actually more common than zebra danios here and sell for $1.99.

But I know that most of the US has never even heard of Danio choprae (Glowlight Danio), which is why I listed it.

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

Just my Betta coccina

Oh I have a Laetacara dorsigera which I haven't seen in any of the lfs since I bought mine.

Last edited by Theresa_M at 04-Sep-2005 11:00

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Just out of curiosity does anyone have a rare fish wich is hard to find or got an expensive fish cheap???

The rarest fish i've got is agassizii dwarf cichlids, it took me 6 months looking around lfs for them. I was so pleased when I got them

I also got a 15cm/6" black ghost knife fish fo $20 aus
but it costs me in fish food

I should stop bragging but Im so happy!

Ghostfish:%)

for rare:

I've had Neolampralogu pulcher before they became popular and hybred and confused with N. brichardi.

My store sells Agassizi.

I got a double red Cacatuoides.

I have an Electric Blue Lobster (blue crayfish).

A true Julii cory (used to be 3 but only 1 survived)

a PURE WHITE Angelfish (not blushing, not koi, not albino)

for cheap:

Electric blue lobster $10 (usually $25+ here)

4 Discus for $21 total (iow, $5.25 each)

I suppose some of my shelldwellers are considered a bit uncommon, but rare's a pretty subjective word. To the shelldweller fancier, L. hecqui is easy to track down and therefore not rare. To someone who's not, it's a cichlid they'd never see in stores (well, OK, I bought mine in a store, but it's a very cool store) and wouldn't know where to get. It's all relative.

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i suppose that would have to be my microsynodontis and my false bumbleebee cat

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Synodontis Granulosus .

electric cats, BGK aren't to rare, but i can get get them at 5.99 and sell them at 15,

i did have a chance to get a red asian arowana.

high fin loaches are my favorites and are uncommon, b/c they were being taken out of the wild,


some betta antonii,smaradgina

feather fin cats, and at one point a brown knife.

Some of the "rare" fish I currently own...

Coral Red Pencilfish

Two L182 Ancistrus

Bluefin Killies

Microctenopoma congicum

Pygmy Golden Barb

Corydoras leopardus

C20 (Corydoras)

C41 (Corydoras)

Betta pugnax

Danio choprae

Danio kyathit

Wild-type Fathead Minnow

And maybe a few others...




Last edited by Cory Addict at 03-Sep-2005 14:36

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

I've only got two fish right now. I got a 6" Royal Plec for $30 (which is pretty good, at least around here) and a Mudskipper for $8.

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