bhcaaron

The only thing that would make me jealous is if you got all the expensive things I want at as one lump sum for 99cents.

Allie

I wish! I'd be bragging about that forever.

Allie

We did sell them...but for much less then they are worth. Not much of a market for high end fish in our city.
All we have now for piranha is 30 baby red bellies and 2 enigemani sp?

reef freak

Around $50 for a Blue tang and around $40-45 for a Rabbitfish.
I allmost bought a $120 doughnut coral, HUGE coral, with a 20% discount, but I didn't trust my tank enough at the time to buy it...

bert2001

We just spent $30 on a Roseline Shark. Thats the most so far. We also spent $20 on a Spotted Rubbernosed Pleco.

MrWaxhead

3.99 for a Pearl Gourami, I think every one of my fish have been between 1.25 to 3.99

Kevin

wow, my pearls cost me $8 ea. but they were around 3 in. so i guess thats why

mr waxhead...your fish may be cheap...but how much have you spent on live plants and lighting and co2 for them?

MrWaxhead

Not much really, as I buy singles of my plants and propagate them in nursery tanks, and trade plants with local fish keepers, and trade plants to stores in town.

My plants in my 50g came from the following.

4.99 java moss, was a golf ball sized clump when I first bought it.
9.99 riccia, small clump tied to a piece of slate
1.99 ludwigia repens, bought one single stem (now have 100s of stems in my tanks)
4.99 Eleocharis parvula
4.99 Echinodorus tenellus
2.99 anubis
free cabomba, and crypts traded some plants to a fish store
java fern and lace java fern I got from a local fish keeper I traded some plants with.
around 3 bucks for a bulb of the Nuphar stellata.

c02 I ended up paying 150.00 (5lbs tank and reg and solenoid) for after store credit from trading in plants. I had been growing them DIY c02 until that point in 29g tanks.

I had originally spent about 50 bucks in plants when I first started them out, now I just trade locally if there is any thing new I want to try.

Kevin

nice...wish i had the resources and money to grow my own in nursery tanks

Sabi

I'll be paying second highest for my discus R139 (19 US dollars?) But i still hope to bring him a bit more down. How much do you pay +-, for 4in discus in the US?

Dino

At auctions as cheap as 15$.
Retails 50$ +.

Kevin

4 in discus at my lfs are close to $100 and they're not in very good shape either...pretty sickly most of the time

Sabi

Whew man! Thats pretty expensive! Most of the time the discus at my lfs are in good shape but now and then i see they are sick-ish looking. I made it clear i wouldnt take them if i wasnt satisfied!

Kevin

yeah...the only ones at my lfs that look good are the 5 in their show tank

darkwolf29a

With shipping, I paid over $20 a fish for my candy stripe plecos. But...they're so cool.

Sabi

I agree! and with all plecos!

Tayful

Considering I have gotten my "real" tank yet (hoping for a 65g or so), I'm stuck with a 10g and haven't paid all too much for any fish yet. Maybe a few dollars for one type of fish. But since I hope to have a larger variety with my soon-to-be bigger tank, still a freshwater community though, I guess I'll be spending more.

≈ D ≈

Since I restarted I've spent no more than $5.00 per individual. But when I was still living in England and had my 2x55g tanks, the Batfish cost me £50.00 which today is about US$98.00