Endler enthusiast Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 Lately I’ve been doing some serous fish hunting (mostly Endlers and bettas) and I have seen how expensive some fish could get such as discus, and many other fish. This raises the question, what is the most you have ever payed for a fish, or invert? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Endler enthusiast Posted October 1, 2021 Author Share Posted October 1, 2021 Lately I’ve been doing some serous fish hunting (mostly Endlers and bettas) and I have seen how expensive some fish could get such as discus, and many other fish. This raises the question, what is the most you have ever payed for a fish, or invert? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon p Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 I don’t know how many answers you will get because it was asked two weeks ago and it is still getting answers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ARMYVET Posted October 1, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted October 1, 2021 I paid 32 dollar for a single sea bass.....it was lightly sautéed in a garlic herb butter sauce with creamed asparagus and a mushroom risotto. 3 20 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitch_ScruffyCityAquatics Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 $14 for a Reticulated Hillstream Loach that didn’t make it through quarantine… 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppysnail Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 If overnight shipping is included in cost $112 for two longfin lemon blue eyed pleco. So $56 each. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARMYVET Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 On 10/1/2021 at 9:10 AM, Guppysnail said: If overnight shipping is included in cost $112 for two longfin lemon blue eyed pleco. So $56 each. It doesnt count if Hubby thinks they were 3.00 each🤣 1 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanked Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 I still think $7.50 for an Amano🦐shrimp was too much. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenman Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 Way back, I kept marine aquariums (in the old Nektonics days of the '70's-80's.) A marine fish was probably the most expensive fish (Mandarin? Rock Beauty? Puffer? Yellow tang?) I ever bought, but it was so far ago I don't remember how much I paid. I don't think I ever paid more than $30 for a single fish though. My "expensive" fish now are Super Red Bristlenose plecos, but I bought them as very young fish (an inch or so long) from Catfishtown on e-Bay and they were on sale. Buy three get three free and he threw in an extra so I got all seven for around $35 shipping included. I had a silver arowana way back, but he was bought as a baby with a yolk sac for less than $10. He cost me a small fortune in food afterward, so buying the fish was the cheap part. Which is always the case. I just spent $6 this morning restocking the green beans for my Super Reds and I'll be doing that again next week. Buying the fish is often the cheap part. That arowana easily cost me over a few thousand dollars to feed him over his lifetime. I had a big gibbiceps pleco that ate the big Banquet food blocks ($3 each) like they were candy. I was buying them by the case from a local pet shop. He cost me about $45 a month to feed. I had him for over ten years. That math works out to around $5400 just to feed him over the ten years. I suspect the pet shop selling me the food blocks mourned his passing more than I did. I see the prices some koi sell for and marvel that anyone would gamble that kind of money on a fish. Someone spent $1.8 million on a koi not too long ago and word is it died a few months later. I'd kill myself if I spent that kind of money on a fish and it died in just a few months. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mountaintoppufferkeeper Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 $100 for a Hairy Puffer has been my max for an individual fish excluding shipping. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CalmedByFish Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 I actually think my 1 angelfish was the most expensive as far as fish go. Shipping I've paid for other species has been a lot more than the cost of the angel though! I'm generally a big fan of carefully choosing fish that will "replace themselves," so I don't pay often - maybe an average of once per year. That means I don't have to mess with quarantine much either. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indlers Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 Per fish it doesn't come out to a whole lot, but I just paid $180 for a dozen juvenile Endlers 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 I got the the Best of Show female betta at auction at the 2001 International Betta Congress Yearly Convention for $200. Cheers erupted in the room when the hammer went down. 3 2 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott P. Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 $12, I'm cheap. 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick_G Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 My wife ordered a Koi Betta from Thailand for $55 plus shipping. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppysnail Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 On 10/1/2021 at 9:12 AM, ARMYVET said: It doesnt count if Hubby thinks they were 3.00 each🤣 He absolutely knows the FISH themselves were 13$ each 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARMYVET Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 On 10/1/2021 at 11:38 AM, Guppysnail said: He absolutely knows the FISH themselves were 13$ each 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 26 dollars for fish and 86 dollars for shipping?!? Holly moley....where did they come from Mars? 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Endler enthusiast Posted October 1, 2021 Author Share Posted October 1, 2021 On 10/1/2021 at 5:43 AM, Mitch Norton said: $14 for a Reticulated Hillstream Loach that didn’t make it through quarantine… Oh, that’s the worst feeling. On 9/30/2021 at 11:50 PM, Brandon p said: I don’t know how many answers you will get because it was asked two weeks ago and it is still getting answers Oops I didn’t know it was already a question, I’m sorry. On 10/1/2021 at 6:26 AM, Tanked said: I still think $7.50 for an Amano🦐shrimp was too much. Yeah… their babies don’t even survive in Fresh water Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Endler enthusiast Posted October 1, 2021 Author Share Posted October 1, 2021 On 10/1/2021 at 7:40 AM, Indlers said: Per fish it doesn't come out to a whole lot, but I just paid $180 for a dozen juvenile Endlers Yeah I’m just about to do the same thing for my breeding set up 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CalmedByFish Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 On 10/1/2021 at 9:40 AM, Indlers said: Per fish it doesn't come out to a whole lot, but I just paid $180 for a dozen juvenile Endlers Oooh! What kind? Sounds like they might be pretty cool. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biotope Biologist Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 (edited) I paid $100 each for 2 phantom plecos as a sophomore in college. I had a 128g custom acrylic hexagonal aquarium that they were supposed to go into with a school of angels and neon tetra. The phantoms didn't make it through quarantine. Neither did a very rare at the time caterpillar knifefish. Then the angels developed a bacterial infection during transport and only made it 2 weeks in their new home. Killed my interest in the hobby for a while. That and I had a bearded dragon to look after whom I adopted. Edited October 1, 2021 by Biotope Biologist 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppysnail Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 On 10/1/2021 at 12:10 PM, ARMYVET said: 26 dollars for fish and 86 dollars for shipping?!? Holly moley....where did they come from Mars? Overnight is alway a killer to the purse but easier on fish 🥰 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Endler enthusiast Posted October 1, 2021 Author Share Posted October 1, 2021 On 10/1/2021 at 9:31 AM, CalmedByFish said: Oooh! What kind? Sounds like they might be pretty cool. I’m on the hunt for some red snakeskin orchid class no’s. But everywhere I look they are sold out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiShrewd Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 37 bucks for a paradise fish juvenile 2inches 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biotope Biologist Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 On 10/1/2021 at 9:51 AM, Mack said: I’m on the hunt for some red snakeskin orchid class no’s. But everywhere I look they are sold out Wow I would buy those on the name alone! Guppy breeders sure know how to entice hobbyists with names 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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