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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.

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.

paid $35 for each of my 2 blue orandas
actually my dad did, cause he liked them

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.

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

£3.95 for a Sterbai Corydoras

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.

Last edited by PJ at 18-May-2005 01:29

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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I know human beings and fish can co-exist peacefully.

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.

[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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Last edited by sneaky_pete at 18-May-2005 00:33

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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

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!

Last edited by mynameisnathan1234 at 17-May-2005 23:11

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

oh and pair of hap burtonis...about $30/pair

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.

Dear Calilasseia

Where the bloody hell in England do you by your fish??!!!!

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.

I can only assume your from London where such prices may be deemed to be more acceptable?!

... £12 for A Sterbai Cory - good golly you almost gave me a heart attack!

Abid

$3 betta
Although I'm looking at some $18 multis in the future

$30 arrowna sadly i had to give it away

You can definitely get the cuckoos in Australia. In Melbourne full grown are really really expensive, (up to $250 each) But if you are looking at around 2" then they are about $40 I think. Mediums at around 4-5" are about $60.

225 dollars for 3 L-46.
40 for L-264.
35 for L-200/L-144.
25 (roughly) bucks a piece for L-262/L-260.
20 for L-66.

Last edited by Cup_of_Lifenoodles at 18-May-2005 10:52

$150!! Thats approx £75 I spent £15 on my 6 Inch Featherfin I bought few months back

Most expensive for me is probably the Black Lancer at £30. Either that or one of the multiple Plecs I have owned

My most expensive fish is the "Overnight/ Saturday Delivery" fish.

Hmm, paid 15 dollars for a pair of Brevis and 45+ for delivery charges...

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Black Calvus Cichlid £9.00 UK

Oh and of course my rare Golden Ruby Malawi Cichlid at £750 UK.

http://photobucket.com/albums/y169/leongreenway/?action=view&current=Gold3fish.jpg

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my saratoga was 110$.. at the size hes at now ive seen them sell for 500$+ - Mine however has the best goaty ive ever seen and is perfect and happy in every way

$60 AUS on a pair of twin spot gobies.

my peppermint bristlenose is worth $60 but i got it for $40 cause i work there

r0b3y

Lots o' good looking fishies in this thread.

Don't laugh, but my most expensive fish has been a Dwarf Blue Gourami.

I just recently purchased a dozen cherry red shrimp for $31.00, if that helps.

Dave

I don't think any of my fish were over $10.00 Even not-frequently-seen fish that I have were lucky finds.

I guess I make up for it in quantity though

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TigerAngel, are the Cuckoo Catfish rare in Australia? I wouldn't mind buying one, and i would have to get it from a store out of Rocky, because i doubt they will stock them. So yea are they hard to find around your neck of the woods?

cheers

oops also my most expensive fish atm is the butterfly fish i got recently $35 it was. Nothing much, but yea. Hopefully getting a blackghost, and maybe a Cuckoo Catfish if i can grab my hands on one

Last edited by tweaky at 18-May-2005 06:29

My most expensive fish are my Panda Corys. They're £8 each (around $15.50 US) here in the UK, which is why I built up the stock piecemeal.

Most expensive freshwater fish I've seen face to face at a dealers' establishment was a juvenile L046 Hypancistrus zebra. A 1½ long juvenile was a whopping £70, and that was two years ago. Now, I've been told to expect to pay £120 or more for a similar specimen.

Most expensive fish of all I've ever seen face to face was a Royal Empress Angelfish Pygoplites diacanthus back in the days when this was a public aquarium only fish. It was part of the Liverpool Museum public aquarium stock around 10-15 years ago, and back then cost them something like £2,500. Needless to say, they spent quite a bit of money making sure that fish stayed alive! But it did have a 1,000 gallon aquarium to call 'home' ...

For comparison, cheapest fish species in my locality are Neons, White Clouds and Zebra Danios. All of these are around 60p per fish. Most expensive I've contemplated buying (but decided to go for the Pandas instead) were Corydoras sterbai, which were priced at a whopping £12 each. On my current restricted income, that's a lot to spend on a single fish.


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sneaky_pete, Featherfin rare? NO - Just a going phase.
Just like the Clown Fish in Finding Nemo. Before the movie they where cheap, after the movie the price went up because they became popular.
Mine is fully grown now, and adults bring in $150.00. Not that I would part with him/her. ***Tiger.

P.S BTW I love your fishys..

Last edited by TigerAngel at 18-May-2005 06:06

my most expensive fish was the BN, and it died 2 days after... ph shock i think... and the shop was far away, so i didnt bother go get another one.

from where i came from(taiwan) about 8 years ago, i remeber seeing a swordtail (regular) for about 5 cents US dollars, and a full size angel for less than $3.00 US, makes me sad...

and i saw this video on native amazon hunters, they catch fish and sell them to dealers for so cheap, i think it was 1000 neons for $2 US, but again, we are just bunch maniacs what do we know about money

$800 for a titantic (L273)