Everybody Please Share How Many $usd You Spent On Each Of The Fish That You Bought

for me
- $3.00 for a group of 12 size of 1.2 inch tiger barbs
- $0.45 for each 2.5 inch rainbow shark
- $2.00 for each 2.5 inch demasoni
- $1.80 for each 3.5-4.0 inch blackghost knife fish
- $1.00 for each 3.5 inch white malawi
- $0.15 for each 1 inch gold mbuna
- $0.15 for each 1 inch MalawI Cichlide
- $4.5 for each 6 inch Bichir tiger
- $0.3 for each neon tetra
- $1.0 for each 4 inch tire track eel
- $1.0 for each 2.7 inch Oscar fish
- $0.5 for each 2.5-3.0 inch Angelfish
- $0.2 for each Guppy

what do you think about these prices and please share your fish prices

ps. some of them are removed, and give away to my friends

 

My current bbz from what I remember:

$6 - 1" Ryukin, Petsmart. (Now 5")
$25 - Black Moor (technically black butterfly telescope, 3", now 6") LFS

Free - veiltail betta, friend
$10 - elephant ear betta, craigslist importer
$23 - half-moon betta totally not worth the price but I love him unconditionally, PetLand
$4 - female koi betta, Petsmart

$6.50 - red cherry shrimp, PetLand
$6 - 2 for 1 pregnant red cherries, MrPets


...so I'm looking at your 50 cent angelfish and literally crying inside. I'd say you got a deal on everything. 30 cent fish. Drool.

 

Wow you paid cheap for these fish. I don’t think I want to tell you how much I got my fish.

 

Your prices are the incredibly cheap.

I have common community tank fish. My harlequins were £2 each, albino corydoras £3.50 each, mountain minnows £1.50 each. Add on 25% ish to get US dollars About standard for round here in the UK. I've had 100% survival with all these fish so I'm happy with the prices and quality of stock!

 

My current bbz from what I remember:

$6 - 1" Ryukin, Petsmart. (Now 5")
$25 - Black Moor (technically black butterfly telescope, 3", now 6") LFS

Free - veiltail betta, friend
$10 - elephant ear betta, craigslist importer
$23 - half-moon betta totally not worth the price but I love him unconditionally, PetLand
$4 - female koi betta, Petsmart

$6.50 - red cherry shrimp, PetLand
$6 - 2 for 1 pregnant red cherries, MrPets


...so I'm looking at your 50 cent angelfish and literally crying inside. I'd say you got a deal on everything. 30 cent fish. Drool.

I saw a 3" Black Moor at my Local Fish Store that cost only $7, and that red shrimp is way too expensive

My current bbz from what I remember:

$6 - 1" Ryukin, Petsmart. (Now 5")
$25 - Black Moor (technically black butterfly telescope, 3", now 6") LFS

Free - veiltail betta, friend
$10 - elephant ear betta, craigslist importer
$23 - half-moon betta totally not worth the price but I love him unconditionally, PetLand
$4 - female koi betta, Petsmart

$6.50 - red cherry shrimp, PetLand
$6 - 2 for 1 pregnant red cherries, MrPets


...so I'm looking at your 50 cent angelfish and literally crying inside. I'd say you got a deal on everything. 30 cent fish. Drool.

sorry I mean I saw a bunch of Black Moor at LFS that cost $7 each

Your prices are the incredibly cheap.

I have common community tank fish. My harlequins were £2 each, albino corydoras £3.50 each, mountain minnows £1.50 each. Add on 25% ish to get US dollars About standard for round here in the UK. I've had 100% survival with all these fish so I'm happy with the prices and quality of stock!

yeah its kinda cheap but not 100% quality so I have to choose the good one carefully

 

all of my bigger cichlids between $10 and $40. my true green terror was the most expensive, $40. He was 4" when I got him. Electric blue jack was $25. Severum pair, $30. Dwarf pike, $14. too many more to name. least expensive was convicts, like $3.
for my community fish, anywhere from $1 to $25. my blue Moscow guppies were $25. Rose line skarks, $12 each. Red tail botia, $10. least expensive, barbs, $1.49.
gouramis, anywhere from $4-$10.
Goldfish $5-$25.

 

Hm let’s see if I can remember these prices right
4 dollars for all my veiltail s (I think in all it was probably 24 dollars or around that)
12 for my dragon scale
7 for my double tail who has just pasted away
7 for my brothers double tail
4 my fantail goldfish
6 my black moore
16 for my elephant ear
1 for my five guppies (friend sold them to me for dirt cheap)
And that’s it.... for now.... I’m plannig on get a few more thirty gallons for goldfish..... I have an addiction

 

Waaaah.... way to cheap fish...
With the Canadian/ American dollar as is
5$ Canadian -> 4.25 American x8 harlequin rasboras
2.99 -> 2.40 x6 ghost shrimp
10 -> 8$ x2 for my dojo loachs . The others are all rehome/ private seller for pennies compared to whole sale prices.

 

Hrm .. between 2.99 to 3.99 for various platies, swords, guppies.
$7.00 for my dwarf gourami.
Anywhere from $5 (Walmart) to $25 (Petsmart) for bettas.

 

Prices of the fishes I had bought:
In Brunei: (In BruneI currency)

• B$2.00 - 1 juvie Sailfin Pleco
• B$16.80 - 7 4-inch Taiwan Koi (B$2.40 each)
• ~B$2.00 - 4 Blackskirt Tetra (B$o.50 each)
• ~B$1.00 - Tiger Barb pair (B$0.50 each)
• ~B$8.00 - 2 Clown Knife Fish (B$4.00 each)
• ~B$4.50 - 2 Dwarf Gourami (B$2.25 each)
• B$1.00 - 5 Feeder Goldfish (I got 3 more FREE xD)
• B$4.50 - 3 Fantail goldfish (B$1.50 each)
• B$3.00 - 2 Black Moors (B$1.50 each)
• B$6.00 - 3 Pearlscale Goldfish (B$2.00 each
• I get free juvie common pleco whenever I buy from my lfs (When I request xD)
• Also, I get free guppies from my friend here xD

In Philippines: (In Philippine currency)

• ₱150.00 - 3 Bettas (Veiltail) (₱50.00 each)

Note:
- I don't remember some of the prices and the fishes I got especially in Philippines.
- ~ means approximate
- I'm not quite sure about some of the fishes prices though... Some are estimates

 

In CDN:

• $10.00 - 5 Black Skirt Tetras ($2.0 each)
• $12.00 - 6 Platies ($2.0 each)
• $9.00 - 2 Corydoras ($4.5 each)
• $30.00 - 6 Swordtails ($5.0 each)
• $26.00 - 2 BPs ($13.0 each)

Plus tax.

 

My very short and simple list:

$1 each for neon tetra
$3 each for cardinals
$3 for mystery snail
$2.50-4 each for common short fin molly

At this point I probably wouldn't want to spend more than $15 for a single fish and it would have to be bought from a reliable source and special, like a fish I've been wanting and have done some nitty gritty serious research on.

 

for me
- $3.00 for a group of 12 size of 1.2 inch tiger barbs
- $0.45 for each 2.5 inch rainbow shark
- $2.00 for each 2.5 inch demasoni
- $1.80 for each 3.5-4.0 inch blackghost knife fish
- $1.00 for each 3.5 inch white malawi
- $0.15 for each 1 inch gold mbuna
- $0.15 for each 1 inch MalawI Cichlide
- $4.5 for each 6 inch Bichir tiger
- $0.3 for each neon tetra
- $1.0 for each 4 inch tire track eel
- $1.0 for each 2.7 inch Oscar fish
- $0.5 for each 2.5-3.0 inch Angelfish
- $0.2 for each Guppy

what do you think about these prices and please share your fish prices

ps. some of them are removed, and give away to my friends

For these fish, you would need a minimum of 10 - 15 good sized tanks, so I find this posting pretty unlikely. Whomever sold to you was playing games, as you have MalawI Cichlids, and MalawI Cichlids - don't they know what they are selling? It is such a badly made list it looks like an ad for an unprofessional sketchy wholesaler.
If it's a current stocklist from an Asian wholesaler, please remember the cost of import permits, inspection, air freight (very high) and to calculate losses and energy costs for the numbers you would need to get for those prices.
I've seen a lot of hobbyists get hold of fishfarm or wild collector lists and see 25 cent tetras, only to discover they cost a couple of dollars by the time all the real costs have been factored in.
A hobbyist friend of mine just lost several hundred dollars ordering direct from a supplier who took the money and sent nothing.

 

My fish
Fire Dwarf Gourami: $4.29 (LFS "The Reef")
Halfmoon Koi Betta Male: (My Profile Picture) $20.00 (TapongBettas, Aquabid)
Halfmoon Double Tail Male Betta: $7.00 (Petsmart)
7 Harlequin Rasboras: $4.00 each (LFS "The Reef")
Red Wag Platy: $2.49 (Petsmart)
Sunburst Wag Platy $2.99 (Petsmart)
Bristlenose Pleco: $4.00 (LFS "G&M")

 

For these fish, you would need a minimum of 10 - 15 good sized tanks, so I find this posting pretty unlikely. Whomever sold to you was playing games, as you have MalawI Cichlids, and MalawI Cichlids - don't they know what they are selling? It is such a badly made list it looks like an ad for an unprofessional sketchy wholesaler.
If it's a current stocklist from an Asian wholesaler, please remember the cost of import permits, inspection, air freight (very high) and to calculate losses and energy costs for the numbers you would need to get for those prices.
I've seen a lot of hobbyists get hold of fishfarm or wild collector lists and see 25 cent tetras, only to discover they cost a couple of dollars by the time all the real costs have been factored in.
A hobbyist friend of mine just lost several hundred dollars ordering direct from a supplier who took the money and sent nothing.

Ouch. Those "cheap" SunSun canister filters you guys talk about? They cost my 60$ but by the time you add in the Canadian dollar, border fees and shipping, its closer to 200$. At that point, I can buy a user fluval for cheaper.

 

I saw a 3" Black Moor at my Local Fish Store that cost only $7, and that red shrimp is way too expensive
sorry I mean I saw a bunch of Black Moor at LFS that cost $7 each

In my defense the moor is excellent quality (and also a butterfly) and also $5 off lol. I have an eye on $40 small-size ranchus from the same store.

 

Pepper corys each $3
Panda cory $6
KhuliI loach $2
Dojo loach (baby one) $9
Neon tetras $1 each
Bristlenose pleco $6
And that's it

 

Ouch. Those "cheap" SunSun canister filters you guys talk about? They cost my 60$ but by the time you add in the Canadian dollar, border fees and shipping, its closer to 200$. At that point, I can buy a user fluval for cheaper.

Oi! Sorry, that is not correct.
e-bay, shipped to USA mailbox, picked up across the border. Cost like $70. Free shipping.
To get it shipped to Canada would probably cost more than free for shipping, but you won't pay import tax if the asian wholeseller doesn't label it - and they never do.

Amazon is not a good place to buy junk from Asia. e-bay is.

 

Oi! Sorry, that is not correct.
e-bay, shipped to USA mailbox, picked up across the border. Cost like $70. Free shipping.
To get it shipped to Canada would probably cost more than free for shipping, but you won't pay import tax if the asian wholeseller doesn't label it - and they never do.

Amazon is not a good place to buy junk from Asia. e-bay is.

I've thought about shipping to an American address and then jumping the bored to save the extra shipping fees but with gas it's still the same. I think eBay it said it was 300$. STUPID in my opinion but I found a pair of fluval 304's for 150$ each. Nice filters and half full price. All worked out. But shipping to Canada is pathetic...

 

Yeah no kidding. Shipping to Canada for ebay china is murder. Not just the price, but also when it says "2 weeks - 2 months estimated shipping", it's literally 2 weeks for USA and 2 months for Canada. I buy a ton of junk ebay stuff, and I'm lucky my parents have a trailer there.

Without looking too hard, something called "200 Gallon Aquarium Canister Filter 9w UV Sterilizer Fish Tank Hw-304b 525gph HM" is $70.83. I think that's what I bought. Given, I can't speak to quality 'cause I never used it and only bought it to pawn it off as an xmas gift.

This is what happens if I set it to ship to Canada...

• $75.99
• Buy It Now
• +$78.75 shipping
• yeahhh... how about no thank you lol.

 

Yeah no kidding. Shipping to Canada for ebay china is murder. Not just the price, but also when it says "2 weeks - 2 months estimated shipping", it's literally 2 weeks for USA and 2 months for Canada. I buy a ton of junk ebay stuff, and I'm lucky my parents have a trailer there.

Without looking too hard, something called "200 Gallon Aquarium Canister Filter 9w UV Sterilizer Fish Tank Hw-304b 525gph HM" is $70.83. I think that's what I bought. Given, I can't speak to quality 'cause I never used it and only bought it to pawn it off as an xmas gift.

This is what happens if I set it to ship to Canada...

• $75.99
• Buy It Now
• +$78.75 shipping
• yeahhh... how about no thank you lol.

Yep. That's what it did to me. but in the end I got fluvals and I love them.

 

This entire tank was a present, all I have to pay is for water for WC's and electricity bills. I know the plantslook crummy but I will reposition it.

 

No way--- I would cry if I made a list of how much I have spent on fish and I am planning on having a good day!

 

This is becoming a Canadian thread, but if we buy from the US, not China, and they ship via private courrier, get ready. There are customs brokerage fees that add up quickly, and that you have no choice on. I once ordered some aquarium goods I had carefully checked out - all duty free. UPS charged me 60% of their value in brokerage.
I go with the US postal system or I don't buy. If they don't give me the option, I run away.
Or, if the product isn't available here, I get them shipped to a US friend, visit that friend and win both ways.

I hope I am wrong, but I expect that OP wants us to PM to see where fish at those prices came from, at which point he will offer to "help" us. Because I am on a few facebook fish business discussion groups, I get a lot of friendship offers phrased like that.

 

This is becoming a Canadian thread, but if we buy from the US, not China, and they ship via private courrier, get ready. There are customs brokerage fees that add up quickly, and that you have no choice on. I once ordered some aquarium goods I had carefully checked out - all duty free. UPS charged me 60% of their value in brokerage.
I go with the US postal system or I don't buy. If they don't give me the option, I run away.
Or, if the product isn't available here, I get them shipped to a US friend, visit that friend and win both ways.

OUCH. Yeah, that's why I don't buy online...

 

This is becoming a Canadian thread, but if we buy from the US, not China, and they ship via private courrier, get ready. There are customs brokerage fees that add up quickly, and that you have no choice on. I once ordered some aquarium goods I had carefully checked out - all duty free. UPS charged me 60% of their value in brokerage.
I go with the US postal system or I don't buy. If they don't give me the option, I run away.
Or, if the product isn't available here, I get them shipped to a US friend, visit that friend and win both ways.

I hope I am wrong, but I expect that OP wants us to PM to see where fish at those prices came from, at which point he will offer to "help" us. Because I am on a few facebook fish business discussion groups, I get a lot of friendship offers phrased like that.

I thought the same when I first read this post.

When the price of anything is impossibly low, someone / something along the chain is being exploited or poorly treated. Or it's an outright scam. Of course, a higher price is no guarantee against these things, but a ridiculously low price is a guarantee of it.

The only honest explanation I can think of is a hobbyist breeding for fun and just wanting homes for surplus stock. Unlikely with the variety of species.

 

I don't care how much anybody pays for their fish. It is interesting to see the differences in different areas but that's it.
I buy my fish from my LFS, occasionally from another privately owned LFS if I have to have the fish urgently

I gladly pay whatever my LFS charges. I value his expertise and don't want to buy from chain stores.
Paying just a few cents for fish like the OP sounds weird to me, might not be real unless he buys from private people who just want to get rid of their fish.
I like to save on tanks, etc. but not on the fish.

 

Those are probably the cheapest prices I have ever seen for those fish. My fish were certainly more expensive but worth it. Not all of mine have shipping included because well I forget.

RIP Blue Water (betta) was $35.00 + shipping. I got her from a good breeder on ebay.

Dream Blue Shrimp group of five was $36.79 from aquatic arts great quality, and started breeding babies right away. It has turned into a nice little colony.

Five nerite snails $15.80 I got them from various places peabody paradise, trinsfish, and aquatic arts.

My community 40 gallon tank:

Ranshorn and bladder snails free and I have no ideal how many I have they came on various live plants lol
Malaysian snails four for 50 cents there is way more then four now, but they do their shifting sand duty well
Mystery snails two for $7.00 from aquatic arts

6 striped KuhlI loaches for $18.00 trinsfish
6 black kuhlI loaches for $15.00 wet spot

10 Diamond Tetras for $20.00 they were on sale at a not so local fish only place. Great quality fish there, but they mostly do salt water fish. I was so excited to find the diamond tetras there.

8 Celebees rainbow fish for $49.00 wetspot

1 pearl gourami for $5.00 trinsfish

1 Queen arabesque pleco L260 I don't have yet but will be around $75.00

 

Yup, cheap fish tend to be ... cheap fish. There are techniques a farm can use to make them cheap, but as buyers, they are very scary practices.
Really cheap fish always make me nervous. I like a store with healthy creatures, and will happily pay more. A cardinal that lives 5 years and costs 3 dollars beats a $2 fish that maybe makes 6 months and puts tb into your tank...
I'll wager a lot of us have bought cheap fish, then paid twice as much as the fish cost for meds.

 

$3.99 for betta
$2.99 for mystery snail
$4.99 for nerites
$11.99 on ghost shrimp

 

Yup, cheap fish tend to be ... cheap fish. There are techniques a farm can use to make them cheap, but as buyers, they are very scary practices.
Really cheap fish always make me nervous. I like a store with healthy creatures, and will happily pay more. A cardinal that lives 5 years and costs 3 dollars beats a $2 fish that maybe makes 6 months and puts tb into your tank...
I'll wager a lot of us have bought cheap fish, then paid twice as much as the fish cost for meds.

Hmm I learned the hard way getting neons at petco on sale for $1 each. OP's fish starting at just a few cents? I wouldn't touch them with a ten foot pole as if the phrase "have to pick out the good ones" wasn't scary enough... though honestly I thought OP was getting these fish through backyard breeders or something along those lines.

 

For these fish, you would need a minimum of 10 - 15 good sized tanks, so I find this posting pretty unlikely. Whomever sold to you was playing games, as you have MalawI Cichlids, and MalawI Cichlids - don't they know what they are selling? It is such a badly made list it looks like an ad for an unprofessional sketchy wholesaler.
If it's a current stocklist from an Asian wholesaler, please remember the cost of import permits, inspection, air freight (very high) and to calculate losses and energy costs for the numbers you would need to get for those prices.
I've seen a lot of hobbyists get hold of fishfarm or wild collector lists and see 25 cent tetras, only to discover they cost a couple of dollars by the time all the real costs have been factored in.
A hobbyist friend of mine just lost several hundred dollars ordering direct from a supplier who took the money and sent nothing.

no, I gave many type of fish to my friend and some of them died and some removed
like some aggressive fish that I return

Hmm I learned the hard way getting neons at petco on sale for $1 each. OP's fish starting at just a few cents? I wouldn't touch them with a ten foot pole as if the phrase "have to pick out the good ones" wasn't scary enough... though honestly I thought OP was getting these fish through backyard breeders or something along those lines.

I actually bought those fish in the nearby LFS which I also think fish prices in the country that I lived in is kinda cheap compare to other country obviously.

 

None of the fish I have bought have costed me more than 1.5 dollars each. I try to buy the smallest size available and buy fish in groups so I can ask for discounts lol. Sometimes buying them as young as possible has its risks because maybe 1 or 2 will die so you need to treat them with love when they first get in. I'm usually able to find the fish I want for around 80 cents that way but all of my fish are "common and simple" so that is also one of the reasons.

 

Anywhere from $8 to $200 for each of my fancy goldfish...most of mine are around the $60-150 range.

$6 for each of my scarlet badis.

$25 for my koi betta

$18 for my apistogramma trifasciata

$8 for my Mekong bumblebee goby

 

Mmmm... well, I have a bettAddiction, and specifically koi hmpk bettas.

I’ve a 40 Breeder sorority tank with 11 girl bettas, 5 are koi and were between 12 and 20$ each. The 20$ ones were definitely higher quality, but the 11$ ones are adorable.

The other 6 are 3$ each, solid-ish color girls. Some veil, one spade, two crown tail.

I also have one adult albino BN pleco who I got as a tiny baby for 8$, and four baby “long fin green dragon” BN plecos that were 16$ each.

One 17 year old pictus catfish who is 6” and sassy, I got as a rescue as the only surviving member of his pack three years ago.... I know he should be in a way bigger tank and a bigger group but I keep thinking that if I move him he’ll just stroke out and die. He’s so much older than the internet says he should be. ...

I also have a divided 20 gallon long with four koi male bettas in it, and they were 18-25$ each. Well, one was 25. The rest were 18. The 25$ one is pretty clearly the superior quality betta, too.

In that tank I have tiger and zebra Nerite snails. They were... 3$ each I think?

Most expensive fish I ever bought was a female koi plakat who was just... excellent. After the impulse buy (80$ after shipping) I realized I should probably only spend so much if I plan to breed fish... and I never did.

 

I'm going to average it as well, since I have a couple of fish that have bred because they came pregnant from the store

Guppies: $.02 each, came from adults who were 3.99 each
Bettas: about $8 each, I get mine from Petco, as my store gets really nice fish
Goldfish: Free, friend couldn't take care of them
Zebra danios: 5 for $1 sale at Petco
KuhlI loaches: $5 each
Golden Wonder Killifish: Came with the danios, she jumped out of her tank and landed in the one underneath

 

Quality guppies, $25 each, shipping not included. Lifetime supply of guppy kids, can't call it free but they're pretty cheap. Actually they are free because I sell a few.

Good swords, $7 each. Same deal, the kids are pretty cheap/free.

Rams- About $10 each. Fair price IMO vs $7 for Rams likely to die.

Most of the common stuff like tetras and corys are about $3 from a good LFS around here.

Ramshorn snails- I hate to brag but I got those babies for free with a plant purchase. Am I wrong for not sending the plant seller some extra money for the snails?

 

$28.00 a piece for 5 neolamprogolus multifasciatus and $115.00 for 7 neolamprogolus multifasciatus on aquabid shipping included.

 

Average $15ish per clown loach (between $10 and $35, got most for 10 though)
$9 for my clown knife
$20 for my electric blue acara
$10 for my school of giant danios
$12 for my school of BA tetras
$7 per silver dollar
$8 for a violet goby
$5 for a albino gibbI pleco
$9 for a raphael catfish
$5 per Albino senegal bichir

 

Hmm

$30usd for a purple halfmoon betta from LFS (sip Ninja)

$7 for multI colored crowntail betta from Petco.

$20 for yellow blue eyed Bristlenose Pleco on here.

My fish from the LFS for my community tank will cost between $2-$8 each. Cherry barbs, Black neon tetras and Panda cories