the most you've paid for a single fish

[Guest]

Same as Zagz, Gold nugget Pleco but I got mine for $49

 

[Lonewolfblue]

40.00 for an albino (golden) dojo loach, and 20.00 each for 6 roseline sharks.

 

[Fishyfanatic]

Our Africans run about $20 TO $45 each. It was a sigh of relief when I bought the Tetras for $3. lol The most expensive one we bought was $80.

 

[MSU Fan]

Hold the phone, we have a winner (lol):

7.99/each for GBR, and...drumroll please...9.99 for a boesemani rainbow (you all thought I was a big spender too!)

 

[Alshain]

$2.50 ea. for 4 swordtails.
$2.00 ea. for 3 otos.

Currently I have 3 swordtails and 1 oto and they are all well worth it. So yeah I spent my life savings on fish.

 

[Mosaic]

My Ctenopoma acutirostre was $11, which was great considering I was willing to spend like 5 times that. When the right lot of Ctenopoma ansorgei comes around (watching aquabid like a hawk), I'll be willing to kill for it.

I think my rhino pleco might have been around $15 at the time I got him. He's almost 8 now, so I've gotten my money's worth.

 

[JRagg]

I paid $45 for a special kind of pleco a while back. He died from a bacterial infection a couple years later, and I honestly don't remember what kind he was.

He was black with white spots. I'm thinking it was something like a "ghost pleco". I haven't found any others that look like him though. I named him spot. I'm original.

 

[toddnbecka]

Most I've paid for a single FISH is around $40. If you count the overnite shipping, double the amount. Good bit of cash for 1 fish, but it was a male plagiostoma eel, WC from Lake Tanganykia. They're not commonly available, and I had a female that had recently laid eggs, so...
The aggravating thing is the fact that the male eats the eggs after they spawn.

 

[Guest]

Here pictures of my $105.00 gold apistogramma triple reds { male}

Female

 

[Toirtis]

$175 each for a couple of Polypterus endlicheri endlicheri, but it will be a lot more when I get my Asian aro...probably about $3000.

 

[Blazeherd2306]

Only $20 (for an adult blood parrot).

 

[trotty]

wow, i'm amazed.... I thought there would have been bigger numbers!

Most i spent was $200 on my Saratoga Jardini (Australian Arrowana)
And he was about 10inches when i got him!

 

[hc8719]

Toirtis you mean $300 for an asian aro right? i hope

otherwise i'd say you hammered what we spend

 

[lovemybarbs]

$20.00 for my angelicus botia loach.

 

[RoK]

$15 each for some of my eartheater cichlids.

Most i spent was $200 on my Saratoga Jardini (Australian Arrowana)
And he was about 10inches when i got him!

Wow, can't those get to nearly 40" long? Must need a huge tank, yes?

When the right lot of Ctenopoma ansorgei comes around (watching aquabid like a hawk), I'll be willing to kill for it.

Um..: http://www.aquabid.com/cgi-bin/auction/auction.cgi?fwanabantoid&1153711649


Toirtis, what size tank you have/are getting for the aro?

 

[Toirtis]

Toirtis you mean $300 for an asian aro right? i hope

otherwise i'd say you hammered what we spend

No, I mean $3000....I just can't see myself spending $6500+ for one of the AAA grade gold heads, so only a AA blue sapphire crossback for me.

 

[Toirtis]

Toirtis, what size tank you have/are getting for the aro?

Probably a 275-300. Fortunately Asians are sorter than silvers and blacks by far.

 

[RoK]

Awesome, I'd like to get one someday. Most likely not for a looong time though.

 

[Toirtis]

Awesome, I'd like to get one someday. Most likely not for a looong time though.

Not unless you move...Asian arowanas are illegal to possess or import into the USA.

 

[WaterPond]

The most expensive fish...lets see, that has to be one for my pond, i spent $35 on him, but he is direct from china (i coulden't resist(no regrets either) I will put i picture below. I have spent close to 20 on domestic koi, but you can over 75 years of enjoyment from them.

The runner-up would be my male betta, Topato (tomato and potato, those words mixed together) who cost me $5