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Forever-mango
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It really depends where you purchase your fish in Australia. Oscars are very cheap around my area. Big ones prob $50? L114s...about 15cm was like $500 or something similar?
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My 10 dollar bettas
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The most I've ever paid for a fish is $7.99 each for my blue rams and my gold rams.

I'd pay much more for a betta though.....but I'm just not willing to pay the shipping fees!!
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convict cichlid $2.99
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Most expensive "fish" in my tank is an invert: my singapore wood shrimp was 6.99.

My angels would be next around $6.50/ea. I do have $10+ rainbows that I got for $1.59/ea because the sales clerk wasn't paying attention to the UPC number he wrote on my sales slip.. so they don't count.

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I also paid $200 for a pair of tiger oscars, fully grown...Apparently they were on show for a while b4 i bought them, but i dunno heh! Anyone else heard of them? Terror & Psycho that's what they were named.
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Most expensive fish,

Clown knife fish, paid $600 for him...
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Probably my idiotic purchase of a blue mbuna and some other mbuna. i had studied up on goldfish and bought a whole seprate tank setup and everything. i went to my LFS and siad "whats your hardiest aggressive fish?" and they pointed me to their african cichlid tank and siad "They are $15 apiece" so i spent $30 on a pair of fish that died two weeks later cus i did'nt know a thing about their care requirements (at the time). So there you have it! my dumbest and most expensive fish of all time (so far)

P.S. i now know a ton about cichlids

C.J.T

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i had 2 paroon sharks at 35 dollars a piece. beautiful fish had to bring them back cuz i later found out they get to be about 4 feet long. the were the most shark looking catfish out there.
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all my fish were cheap lol um my most expensive fish would have to be my full grown male jewel..... which wasnt that much money lol but the most expensive lump sum of fish is my school of danios (4) wich costed like $13.00 american



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"I'm from Leicester and Panda corys are £2.95 a pop... And I've just bought 5 Cory Sterbai for just under £20! Zebra Plecs are £10.95."

A better question would be where the hell you buy your fish. 10 pounds for a zebra plec is unheard of. I highly doubt this claim. Perhaps you are thinking of a different fish.
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Just checked out planetcatfish.com and I think it must have been an L114 that was $1200.00. Anyway fish are expensive over here, even if you are buying natives (unless you want Barra, but why would you want to).
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One bulldog pleco for $10. I got him from Petsmart.
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Oscars that big here go for $250 - $300 a pair. I seen a breeding pair going for $250 at one place and thought it wasn't bad
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my most expensive fish was probably a blue jewel cichlid...it was fully grown and cost me about 20$
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I dont think fish have to be expensive to be great i live in the UK and i bought an Oscar for £5 ($10.50 equilivent) and he is worth every penny i say 14" Oscars in my LFS on sale for £40 (US$85ish equivilent)
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These fish were purchased @ wholesale prices
10cm Red Tail Goldern (RTG) @ approx $1-1.5k each
15cm L114 @ $450
6-8cm Silver Aro @ $180


The funny thing is that i didnt mention how many of these fish i bought...just say i spent alot of $$ then made lots after i sold them to retailers in the country

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I paid $300 for two baby red melon discus.
Really nice fish though....
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o.o

How the heck can you afford those fish? IIRC, you're still a student. Also, how goes the pond?

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[font color="#000080"]Rusty- Your Peppermint is gorgeous!!!
I recently saw one in the LFS for only $49.95!!!
What can you tell me about this type of pleco? Requirements, size, compatibility with other plecos?
You can IM me if you want.
Thanks.
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I paid 50$ for a 9" red oranda, still my fav fish i ever had. Paid 20$ a couple times too.
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My Peppermint BN was $30.00Aussie dollars, but normally $50.00 and at some places $75.00. I got it for $30 because we bought 2 eheim filters there. 2nd most would be my schwartzi corys for around $15.00 each I think.
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paid $35 for each of my 2 blue orandas
actually my dad did, cause he liked them
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My 19 clown loaches and Denizon Barbs. The clowns average at Rs. 350 a pair, thats about Rs. 175 each, which is $3.5. I dont know how much they wld cost relatively in the US. The biggest are over 4 inches in size now.

The other most expensive fish I own is a pair of Denizon Barbs at Rs. 170 each, again, close to $3.5. Heard they are like 30 pounds in the US.

Have one full size black female angel which is short trimmed skirt. Her mate died. The breeding pair cost me $5 in all.
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Wow! How come he is worth 150 Tiger?
are featherfins rare there?


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The best buy was a Synodontis Eupterus (featherfin) sold to me @ $14.00 Aus. Was suppose to have been a young Cuckoo Synodontis. Now this fish is worth $150.00. What a bargain

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Ours would have to be the Cuckoos (Cuckoo Catfish, Multi-spotted Synodontis) @ $35.00 Aus each.

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I've spent $80 on a shoal of corys, but the most expensive individual fish I've bought is a L163 at $30.


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GD sneaky_pete you sure spent some money! You make me want to open my own shop. I have not payed more then $20us
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£3.95 for a Sterbai Corydoras
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Paid $85 for a female peppermint BN but I don't really see much of her.
My catfish have all cost me the most..
$65 chocolate plec
$45 common plec
$65 sailfin plec
and hundreds of dollars for cories
Best pic I have of Gigi the peppermint...


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The most expensive fish I have is probably my Frontosa.

Also the Electric Blue I had was worth a bit, but I traded it in for the frontosa because it had aggression problems.

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I dont have fish that costs a lot of money,but my elephant fish i bought for 14us$
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/mile_rd_8ball/detail?.dir=/e2c2&.dnm=2288.jpg&.src=ph
and my hoplo catfish i got for 12us$
http://www.nettakvariet.no/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=12550
and my pleco 10us$ http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/mile_rd_8ball/album?.dir=/3dba
Later iam getting 2 zebra plecos..so that will be my most expencive fish...wonder when i will have them


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cant remember how much they were when I bought them, but I'd probably get $100(or more) for my adult breeding pair of bristlenoses now.
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[font color="#000080"] I live in British Columbia, Canada, and I got all these fish within a 50 mile radius (on Vancouver Island)
1st most expensive fish: Turqouise Hi Fin Discus $89.95 x2




2nd most expensive fish: Inspector pleco I paid $39.95 on sale regular price would have been $89.95.




Third most expensive fish: my first Bolivian Ram, $16.99, ties with USD Cats $16.99 each




Fourth most expensive fish: both my large Angels, $14.99 x2
Ties with Ambiacus Cory cats $14.99 each x3


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My most expensive fish to date would be my albino BN plec. And he was a whole twelve bucks, I think. Next runners up are the panda cories at $7.99. I'm a cheapskate.

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My 'Golden Red Eye Pleco' which I believe is a Pterygoplicthus scrophus... Cost NZ$35 (Around US$25). :-) Looks just like a regular Pleco but with yellow/pinkish skin and bright pink eyes. :-) I'd attach a photo but my water is embarassingly dusty :-P
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Whats your most expensive fish? How much was it? How did you get it? Where do you live? Feel free to show it off with a pic!

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Probably my colony of burundi frontosa...got em for free but now their around $200...

oh and pair of hap burtonis...about $30/pair
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People from Australia and New Zealand would most likely pay the most for a fish like plecos because of import laws. Most americans can get some of the plecos that you pay 80 to 100 dollars for 30-50 dollars. My most expensive fish was my royal plec for about 35$. I also have a wild cuckoo catfish that was 22 but that was online, It would have been about 60 around here at the lfs.
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