Brandon p Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 On 9/8/2021 at 8:46 PM, Guppysnail said: I just put together a Pygmy cory tank using 3 online sources for diversity….overnighted on 2 😳. Hubby thinks it’s just some little fish so must be cheap 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I just setup a Sterbai tank about month or so ago and I have some dime size angels in a 55 and wanted to put 12-18 corys in that I’m just not sure what kind. I once spent way to much on discus. Now you can source some good discus in a lot of places locally for $25-$45. Not cheap but reasonably and good looking fish to. As long as you don’t have your heart set on some of the $100-$200 a fish varieties, you should be able to stock it reasonably. If you have to ship them the small discus ship well and cost less @Jeff 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 On 9/8/2021 at 9:03 PM, Patrick_G said: Worth it! Agree 100%. But regardless, I'm looking the other way when I click 'order'....lol 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon p Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 On 9/8/2021 at 9:07 PM, Guppysnail said: Not Pygmy unless you plan feeding angels very expensive live food Pygmy 🤣 Not yet 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish Folk Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 I calculate that for every gallon of tank water, at baseline I spend… $10 just to get established. So, a 55 gal easily “disappears” $550. I think I’ve got 375 gal. total running. That’s $3,750… Calculate your gallons and add a zero. 😬🤑 3 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppysnail Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 On 9/8/2021 at 9:18 PM, Fish Folk said: I calculate that for every gallon of tank water, at baseline I spend… $10 just to get established. So, a 55 gal easily “disappears” $550. I think I’ve got 375 gal. total running. That’s $3,750… Calculate your gallons and add a zero. 😬🤑 NOOOOOOO…….I don’t want to know and hubby would stroke out! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David W Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 I spent $50 on a vampire pleco that mostly hangs out on the back of drift wood. It comes out for 5 min at a time during feedings. I am actively trying to get out of the only cheap fish mindset. I spend hundreds on tanks, filters, lights, substrate, plants, etc… without much thought. Then I have a hard time buying a small school of really cool corys because they are $6.00 each. I have to remind my self the hobby should revolve around enjoying cool fish and they should be a bigger consideration in my budget. That being said my favorite fish to watch lately have been my white clouds. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARMYVET Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 On 9/8/2021 at 9:18 PM, Fish Folk said: I calculate that for every gallon of tank water, at baseline I spend… $10 just to get established. So, a 55 gal easily “disappears” $550. I think I’ve got 375 gal. total running. That’s $3,750… Calculate your gallons and add a zero. 😬🤑 Let’s see… 15 …20 gallon tanks 3 …. 5 gallon tank 1 … 20 gallon cube 1 … 5 gallon cube oh yeah and one 150 gallon pond Do I really want to do the math and know that number🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabby Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 Can’t walk out of my LFS without spending $100. Seriously. Maybe once or twice I’ve managed it. My most recent big spend was $125 on 5 TEENY TINY CPDs. And I didn’t even know if they were sexed correctly! Oh, and I spent another $25 on foods to make sure they breed well. 🤦♂️ 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tihshho Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 I think the worst for me were Flowerhorn juveniles at $450 years ago, and the most recent were some coral frags that I won't get into the price lol. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laritheloud Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 No shame. I've been spending a pretty penny on all the plants I've collected for my tanks. We don't judge what we spend on fish, plants, and tanks in this hobby. 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon p Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 @David W I try not to look at the price when looking at fish but it comes up. For me one of favorites is still angelfish and silver dollars. I’m ok with $4 angelfish and then there are times I will spend way more. I have to admit that I liked a fish and then wanted it more when it was rare and expensive. It has not happened about 20 years. I have a pleco that paid about that and never see. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish Folk Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 I’ll just note… here’s a $300 fish investment that I never, ever regret… 7 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tedrock Posted September 9, 2021 Author Share Posted September 9, 2021 On 9/8/2021 at 10:28 PM, Fish Folk said: I’ll just note… here’s a $300 fish investment that I never, ever regret… Now that is beautiful a dream tank. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARMYVET Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 On 9/8/2021 at 10:28 PM, Fish Folk said: I’ll just note… here’s a $300 fish investment that I never, ever regret… No possible way to regret those at all!!! But I sure can be envious !! That is a magnificent tank!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish Folk Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 For all the cost, if I can get my act together, this tank could easily EARN $3,000 if all these EBAs are sold… 8 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon p Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 On 9/8/2021 at 10:28 PM, Fish Folk said: I’ll just note… here’s a $300 fish investment that I never, ever regret… Worth it! I love the melon. I want to add a few to my tank but I think I’m going to wait until I get the 225g set-up 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lefty o Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 gotta tell ya, i cringe when it comes to paying more than a few bucks for a fish. 25 years ago, sturgeon, and gar's for 15-20 bucks each was huge. last few years ive bought guppies for $27 a pair, and done it more than once. im much happier to buy fish that are under 10 bucks each. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PineSong Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 On 9/8/2021 at 8:46 PM, Guppysnail said: I just put together a Pygmy cory tank using 3 online sources for diversity….overnighted on 2 😳. Hubby thinks it’s just some little fish so must be cheap 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Reminds me of when my husband thought all the flowering shrubs and perennials in our yard "just grew there" so I just let him think it. So many, many lilies and hydrangeas. Shhhhh. 2 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PineSong Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 On 9/8/2021 at 9:02 PM, Patrick_G said: But then there’s aquascaping wood I moved "a box of sticks" from one state to another and some people who don't shop for "sticks" thought it was crazy that I didn't just throw them out and "go round up some new sticks when you get there". 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick_G Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 On 9/8/2021 at 9:21 PM, PineSong said: Reminds me of when my husband thought all the flowering shrubs and perennials in our yard "just grew there" so I just let him think it. So many, many lilies and hydrangeas. Shhhhh. Oh yes haha. We have a specialty nursery that sells their plants at our grocery store and I do the shopping. My wife pretends not notice but it’s way to easy to bring home plants with every little thing we need from the store. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PineSong Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 I'm kind of embarassed that I had such simple fish shipped to me from Florida (platies and guppies, not amazing or rare) but not so much about the price as about the fact that when I got the text they were being held at the post office I rearranged my afternoon appointments so I could go pick them up. Thinking about how my parents who didn't miss a day of work in 35 years would judge me for ditching the office without a second thought to go get my box of fish.... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSH OUTDOORS Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 My local fish store gives you one of their t-shirts for spending $300 and a sweatshirt if you spend $500... I'm not embarrassed about walking out with a few hundred dollar bill... I am embarrassed about the number of t-shirts and sweatshirts I own though. 😂😂😂 If anything ever happens to me. Don't let my family sell my fish, tanks, guns or fishing gear for what I told them I paid for it. 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowells Fish Lab Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 After shipping, something like $60 on a female yellow tiger endler that arrived both pregnant and strain contaminated. One became a hundred over the summer. They live in a pond. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathy F Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 (edited) I spent around $200 on glofish for my son's tank (12 glotetras & 14 glodanios). He also just had to have the orange laser corydoras which are also pricey (nearly 100 for 8 of them). My son heard the word glow and his eyes lit up about the corys and after that I couldn't persuade him with something more common like albino or pygmy cories. Yeah, there are $300 worth of fish in his 29 gallon tank. The irony is when I started this tank I thought it would be cheap because it was a 29 gallon and my son wanted small fish, boy was I wrong. Edited September 9, 2021 by Kathy F 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keeg Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 On 9/8/2021 at 5:29 PM, ARMYVET said: I spent over 150.00 on snails😳🤦🏻♂️ SAME, one of the biggest regrets ive had 😬😬😬 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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