How Much Are Fish Where You Live?

[Spishkey]

after seeing what fish were cheap/expensive for people, im curious, how much are fish where you live? (roughly!)

a few examples from where i live


Zebra danio €1,75 (about £1,30)
emperor tetra €2,75 (about £2,20)
young angels €4,50 (about £3,50)
common pleco €3,50 (about £2,80)
guppies male €2,75 (about £2,20)
females €2,50 (about £2)
platys €2,75
corydoras various from €4,00 to €7,50 (about £3 - £6)
blue neons €1 (about 70p)
killifish €2,75

 

[Colin_T]

Aust dollar is a bit less than half a British pound. Prices are in aussie currency, (2 kangaroo tails = 1 koala foot, and 1 koala foot = a crocodile toe)

zebra danio about $2.00
emperor tetra $4.95
young angels $3.95-4.95
common pleco $20.00 for small 2-3inch fish
guppies male $3.95 - $6.95 for the really big ones
females $3.95
platys $3.95
corydoras various from $3.95 for peppered and bronze to $30 or $40 each for more unusual stuff. Most are around the $10-15.00 mark.
blue neons $2.95-3.95 depending on size and shop.
killifish $10.00ea and upwards depending on species. Some like the Nothobranchius set you back $40 or $50ea. Common Aphyosemiums like australe will set you back about $20-30pr depending on where you get them from.
small fantail goldfish $3.95
small comet/common goldfish $2.95
Australian rainbowfish $5-15ea but New Guinea rainbowfish are $15-50ea or even more for some of the rarer species. Recently at one of the ANGFA auctions there was a NG rainbowfish that sold for a couple of hundred dollars per pr. Melanotaenia praecox (neon dwarf rainbow) originally sold for about $200ea when they first came into the country. Then they dropped to about $50ea for a while and are now about $5-10ea.

 

[BigC]

killifish $10.00ea and upwards depending on species. Some like the Nothobranchius set you back $40 or $50ea. Common Aphyosemiums like australe will set you back about $20-30pr depending on where you get them from.

BH Col Killis cost so much down under.

 

[Colin_T]

Yeah I know and they only turn up once or twice a year. It is crazy. Most people who keep them get them shipped over from various killi societies around the country. You have a lot more choice and they are a lot cheaper than buying from the petshop.
The clown killis are one of the more frequently imported and will set you back about $15ea. Others like Epiplaty dageti haven't been brought into the country for over 10 yrs and when they did turn up they set you back about $10ea. And the mad part about it all is many of them are so easy to keep and breed. I had the E. dageti in an 18inch tank with some Java Moss and a sponge filter and they did nothing but breed. I scooped out fry every day for months and flooded the market with them. Then I got rid of the adults and a year later they were gone from the shops and haven't been seen since.
The Aphyosemiums are the same. A friend breeds them and when he first started with them he flooded the market with a few species before getting rid of his adults. Then a few years later you couldn’t find any.

 

[Genesis]

Corydoras robinae are £24 here ($50ish) per trio.
Neons are 99p ($2ish)
Bristlenose plecs are £8 ($15ish)

 

[Athena]

Can never remember the price of all my fish but here are the few I do remember:

pair of pink severums £10.50
Neons 6 for £5
Male Betta VT £3.50
Large b/w mottled veiltail molly (male) £1.50
3 female guppies £1.50

I've found that the live plants cost much more than most of the fish I buy!!


Athena

 

[Dorkhedeos]

Well, heres the ones i remember

bolivian/blue rams 6.99
every other common tetra except for neon 1.99 $20/20
neons .99
silver arowana 19.99
jardini arowana 49.99
african pike 85
assorted cichlids 6.99
oscars 6.99
cichla orinocensis 45
cichla ocellaris 19.99
cichla pinima 95
hydrocynus vittatus 120
gulper cat 550
black cat 500
12 in golden pleco 380
ageneiosus marmoratus 400
indo dats 45
endli endli 95
tigrinus catfish 400
majestic shelter 40
fei feng 40
bagarius bagarius 450
chaca chaca 55
giant bumblebee cat 125
firefish 8.99
purple firefish 29.99
four line wrasse 45
six line wrasse 16
hawaiian flame wrasse 199 3 for 400 i believe
rhomboid 500 for pair i believe
yellow tang 24.99
blue tang 30
blonde naso 45
powder blue/brown 30
helfrichs 125
achilles tang 95

Its late so i cant really remember most of them.

Ive seen some really rare ones too. Black tangs for 500 and joculator angels for 800.

Edit: Oh yeah, its in USD. Im sure CFC would go crazy over a lot of these fish

 

[Anthony!]

In Central Alabama, USA... (the prices I remember off the top of my head)
Juvenile Silver Arowana (when you can find them) $19.99
Juvenile Oscar 3.99 - 14.99
Adult Oscar 89.99 and up.... way up. Most expensive I've seen lately was 249.99
Black Ghost Knife 15.99 - 19.99
Brown Ghost Knife - 9.99
Guppy Male - 2.99
Guppy Female - 1.99
Platy, Swordtail, Molly 2.99 - 3.99
Silver Dollar - 6.99 and up
Red Hook Silver Dollar - 19.99 & up
Royal Pleco - 59.99
Whiptail Catfish - 6.99
Farowella Catfish (twig catfish) - 6.99
Harlequin Rasbora - 2.99
Senegal Bichir - 7.99
Gulper Catfish/Asterophysus Batrachus (the only one I have EVER seen here) 399.99
Misc. Malawi African Cichlids - 3.99 and up
Most Tanganyikan Cichlids (when you can find them) 21.99 and up