Most expensive fish bought. - Page 2

**Cichlid Man** · 07-16-2005, 03:42 PM

£37.50 on an alligator gar.

baby~doll · 07-16-2005, 04:00 PM

mine was probably around 10 dollars, i think oscars are about $8, and i have three ((but i got two for the price of one cuz the store owner is creepy and flirts with me)) oh wait... i used to have a redtail cat, he costed $60

**Baby_Baby** · 07-16-2005, 04:31 PM

woah! ya the guys at petco are always flirting with me and offering me jobs. its hilarious.

**fish_doc** · 07-16-2005, 06:56 PM

I saw a plain oscar today at the store. Other than being large there was nothing special about it. Except they were asking $40 for it. Ouch.

fishfreaks · 07-16-2005, 08:57 PM

today i saw 2 gold severums for 50 bucks. they were beautiful!! btw how much do you guys pay for bettas?

edit- ill tell you my reason later

baby~doll · 07-16-2005, 09:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fishfreaks

today i saw 2 gold severums for 50 bucks. they were beautiful!! btw how much do you guys pay for bettas?

edit- ill tell you my reason later

i think averaged... about 3 dollars

Lydia · 07-16-2005, 10:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Baby_Baby

woah! ya the guys at petco are always flirting with me and offering me jobs. its hilarious.

lol yah i know what you mean

flynngriff · 07-16-2005, 10:40 PM

This should be divided into Saltwater and Freshwater cause the price difference is so huge...

$45 Red Tailed Sternella pleco.

Personally, I like to see how little I can pay for fish... One of my hobbies to to go to the lfs's and see what they have that they can't identify cause somebody traded it in. I got my Polypterus delhezi for $15... They thought it was a sleeper goby!

**Cichlid Man** · 07-18-2005, 07:02 AM

Yeah! I'm always looking for deals at the lfs. Once I got a baby discus for £3.50 because the shop thought it was a severum!

fishboy · 07-18-2005, 08:12 PM

$8 gourami. Although some day i hope to get a african lungfish when i get the money and room to support one

fishfreaks · 07-18-2005, 08:43 PM

i was asking because my one lfs was asking $8 for one. i was like what??

Lydia · 07-18-2005, 09:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fishfreaks

i was asking because my one lfs was asking $8 for one. i was like what??

whoa thats alot! ive paid 4 bucks at the most

**Baby_Baby** · 07-18-2005, 09:31 PM

lets see.....most expensive fish....a common pleco for 4.99 and a betta for 3.69 and a weather loach for 3.79. yup yup yup.

fishfreaks · 07-18-2005, 09:33 PM

i know lydia tell me about it.

Beerleader · 07-18-2005, 09:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cichlid Man

Yeah! I'm always looking for deals at the lfs. Once I got a baby discus for £3.50 because the shop thought it was a severum!

Wow that is pretty good considering I haven't gotten one under 100. I have almost ordered one but it was 35ish and with shipping and all it was still up there. Plus the fish breeder that i get mine from have GREAT fish and I like seeing what I'm getting from more than a pic, only reason I haven't ordered. But only one place sells them here and thats him so I gotta suffer the steep prices. I did see 2 at incredipet once but they weren't very good looking fish to be honest but they were only 30 bucks also.

**Baby_Baby** · 07-18-2005, 09:51 PM

they don't sell discus here at my lfs. i wish they did, though. they're awful purty.

Beerleader · 07-18-2005, 10:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Baby_Baby

they don't sell discus here at my lfs. i wish they did, though. they're awful purty.

Yeah a lot of them don't it seems! I just came across this tiny little fish store in my city. He sells lots of exotics, beautiful cichlids, GREAT saltwaters, and beautiful plants and driftwoods. Glad I found his place. He's a little steep but he does have quality stock, so I guess its worth it. Worst thing is for a long time he really got on my nerves, he thinks he's the bomb because he has a masters in biology/marine bio. Well I have a Bachelors in it, and he tried to talk to me like I was stupid until he got to know me, and realized we spend lots of money there. Once he told me to add sodium bicarbonate to a tank because my eel got out and dried up a bit, I said ok, then he had the nerve to ask, do you know what that is? I thought you jerk! If you thought I didn't then why not just say baking soda in the first place hehe

**Baby_Baby** · 07-18-2005, 10:13 PM

ha ha ha. ya a lot of the pet stores here are closing down. wal mart and petco are really beating em out of business. but our petco is very good so i'm very happy about that. i just wish we had more fish nerds here!

Beerleader · 07-18-2005, 10:24 PM

Yeah same here I notice, one of our favs is going out of business in a few days. It bites too because thats who we buy our RO water from. Now we gotta go to the jerks place hehe. I guess when we move we need to invest in our own. It'll sure beat lugging buckets of water across town.

Lydia · 07-18-2005, 10:28 PM

lol. the guy probably was showing off when he said sodium bicarbonate and was waiting for you to ask him what it was...then you didnt so that he wanted to make sure you knewwhat it was, lol

07-16-2005, 03:42 PM	#21
Cichlid Man Super moderator Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 2,093	£37.50 on an alligator gar. __________________ If you have a big enough tank with enough hiding places, pH of around 7, you can keep virtually any fish together as long as all the fish are around the same size and these two groups of fish are avioded: Serrasalmus Tetradon(figure eights and dwarfs are the exception). I keep a successful community of fish in a 4 foot tank including the following families: Cichlids, tetras, loaches, gouramis, barbs, rainbows, livebearers, killiefish, catfish, puffers.

07-16-2005, 04:00 PM	#22
baby~doll Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Florida Age: 19 Posts: 246	mine was probably around 10 dollars, i think oscars are about $8, and i have three ((but i got two for the price of one cuz the store owner is creepy and flirts with me)) oh wait... i used to have a redtail cat, he costed $60 __________________ .:l.i.v.e. .f.o.r.e.v.e.r. .o.r. .d.i.e. .t.r.y.i.n.g:.

07-16-2005, 04:31 PM	#23
Baby_Baby Super Moderator Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Tulsa Posts: 3,806 Blog Entries: 1	woah! ya the guys at petco are always flirting with me and offering me jobs. its hilarious. __________________ "By avoiding the very thing you despise the most, by trying to be "different" by striving to be so "unique", you've become the sole and center of all that you held so high on the pedestal of disgusting mortality deemed society."

07-16-2005, 06:56 PM	#24
fish_doc Advisor to Neptune (Mod) Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Northern Illinois Age: 40 Posts: 3,881 Blog Entries: 14	I saw a plain oscar today at the store. Other than being large there was nothing special about it. Except they were asking $40 for it. Ouch. __________________ Dave (fish_doc) A World of fish

07-16-2005, 08:57 PM	#25
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07-16-2005, 10:40 PM	#28
flynngriff Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Atlanta, GA Age: 35 Posts: 443	This should be divided into Saltwater and Freshwater cause the price difference is so huge... $45 Red Tailed Sternella pleco. Personally, I like to see how little I can pay for fish... One of my hobbies to to go to the lfs's and see what they have that they can't identify cause somebody traded it in. I got my Polypterus delhezi for $15... They thought it was a sleeper goby!

07-18-2005, 07:02 AM	#29
Cichlid Man Super moderator Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 2,093	Yeah! I'm always looking for deals at the lfs. Once I got a baby discus for £3.50 because the shop thought it was a severum! __________________ If you have a big enough tank with enough hiding places, pH of around 7, you can keep virtually any fish together as long as all the fish are around the same size and these two groups of fish are avioded: Serrasalmus Tetradon(figure eights and dwarfs are the exception). I keep a successful community of fish in a 4 foot tank including the following families: Cichlids, tetras, loaches, gouramis, barbs, rainbows, livebearers, killiefish, catfish, puffers.

07-18-2005, 08:12 PM	#30
fishboy Custom User Title Join Date: Feb 2005 Age: 17 Posts: 1,647	$8 gourami. Although some day i hope to get a african lungfish when i get the money and room to support one __________________ It is only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything

07-18-2005, 08:43 PM	#31
fishfreaks M&F Couple Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: PA Age: 21 Posts: 4,276	i was asking because my one lfs was asking $8 for one. i was like what?? __________________ VOTE FOR FISH FORUMS

07-18-2005, 09:31 PM	#33
Baby_Baby Super Moderator Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Tulsa Posts: 3,806 Blog Entries: 1	lets see.....most expensive fish....a common pleco for 4.99 and a betta for 3.69 and a weather loach for 3.79. yup yup yup. __________________ "By avoiding the very thing you despise the most, by trying to be "different" by striving to be so "unique", you've become the sole and center of all that you held so high on the pedestal of disgusting mortality deemed society."

07-18-2005, 09:33 PM	#34
fishfreaks M&F Couple Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: PA Age: 21 Posts: 4,276	i know lydia tell me about it. __________________ VOTE FOR FISH FORUMS

07-18-2005, 09:51 PM	#36
Baby_Baby Super Moderator Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Tulsa Posts: 3,806 Blog Entries: 1	they don't sell discus here at my lfs. i wish they did, though. they're awful purty. __________________ "By avoiding the very thing you despise the most, by trying to be "different" by striving to be so "unique", you've become the sole and center of all that you held so high on the pedestal of disgusting mortality deemed society."

07-18-2005, 10:13 PM	#38
Baby_Baby Super Moderator Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Tulsa Posts: 3,806 Blog Entries: 1	ha ha ha. ya a lot of the pet stores here are closing down. wal mart and petco are really beating em out of business. but our petco is very good so i'm very happy about that. i just wish we had more fish nerds here! __________________ "By avoiding the very thing you despise the most, by trying to be "different" by striving to be so "unique", you've become the sole and center of all that you held so high on the pedestal of disgusting mortality deemed society."

07-18-2005, 10:24 PM	#39
Beerleader Senior Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Lexington, Kentucky Age: 35 Posts: 382	Yeah same here I notice, one of our favs is going out of business in a few days. It bites too because thats who we buy our RO water from. Now we gotta go to the jerks place hehe. I guess when we move we need to invest in our own. It'll sure beat lugging buckets of water across town.

07-18-2005, 10:28 PM	#40
Lydia Ichthus Owner Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: FL Posts: 1,905	lol. the guy probably was showing off when he said sodium bicarbonate and was waiting for you to ask him what it was...then you didnt so that he wanted to make sure you knewwhat it was, lol __________________ Vote for FishForums!

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