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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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Back in the saddle!

Black Calvus Cichlid £9.00 UK

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

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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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There is water at the bottom of the ocean

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.


Panda Catfish fan and keeper/breeder since Christmas 2002

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)