What Is The Most Expensive Fish You Own / Owned

[Sesshis_grl]

my blushing angel and red golden severum were about $40-44 each

 

[SlyPolak]

WOW!!! 40 bucks for a blushing angel?? It had to be fully grown right??
I can get juveniles for $5 a piece at PetCo...........

 

[Sesshis_grl]

I know! O.O It was during my day of shopping for tropical fish for the first time and after being treated very rudely I just left the store with the only fish I had bagged up which was my angel and severum. I stupidly didn't look at prices (niavely thinking that they are fish, how much can they be?) and found out they were 40 bucks! at that point I just wanted to leave and wanted those particular fish so I took them. However the severum was the size of a big fist, very beautiful and colorful and I have yet to see a blushing angel like mine. She is so beautiful and irridescient colored, very white, and isn't blue tinged like the normal german blushing. So although she was highly overpriced, she's worth it ;D lmao not sure if shes full grown though shes a little bigger than a half dollar coin

 

[markandhisfish]

i paid £55 for an 8 inch rotkeil sev ( over priced i know) , but my most expensive fish are my discus , which i got a cheap deal on ( £200 for 6 fish) but the best one is probably worth 50 or 60 quid

 

[BadBadger]

My L333's at £20 each. Or maybe it was £15 can't think haha

Someones going to come along and say £600 for a breeding group of zebra plecos soon!!

 

[ZoddyZod]

£4.50 for my angelfish

Just call me Rothschild!

 

[Miss Dib Dabs]

Paid £55 for my syno angelicus quite a number of years ago. The red cactus plec I had was worth a fair price, especially as an adult and I suspect the EBJD pair are worth a bit too. Nearly bought some syno granulosus this year but the shop was charging £225 each.....decided I wasn't rich enough.
P.

 

[B13]

On the flipside of the coin, the cheapest fish I ever bought were the two Siamese Flying Foxes, Four Kuhlis and the 2 Common Plecs that I 'bought' when I first set up my tank.

I say 'bought' because the garden centre where I got them from had a new kid on the tills that Saturday and he forgot to charge me for the fish!! Probably because they had been packed into a plain, brown paper bag. It was only when I got home and checked the receipt (fish food, filter sponge, rocks, etc) that I realised his error!!

As it happens, I later took one of the Flying Foxes (he was a big bully!!) and the Common Plecs back (They were sold to me as being Bristlenoses...) so I didn't feel quite so bad!! I do buy a lot of stuff from there (both fishie and otherwise), so they didn't lose out on toooooo many £££s by not charging me for the fish.



But I guess that the most expensive fishies that I own now are my Corydoras loxozonus fellas... The chap in the LFS didn't know what they were or how much to charge me, so I think I got 'em at quite a good price.

 

[aly_starh]

£24 on a male betta

 

[Channti]

Again with the flipside of the coin, my cheapest fish were 3 otocinclus affinis...... I paid $1.47, because the girl couldn't count.

or my old White Cloud Mountain Minnows, 8 for $4.00 (again, the girl couldn't count).

 

[jameshunter63]

must be my cory. sterbai. 6 for £40. very expensive for the type i think! or maybe a large marble angle at £12. managed to get a free apple snail once though when i bought a bigbunch of java moss. was hiding in there!!

 

[fluvial]

I paid £7.50p for each of my Cory Sterbai
and £15 for a pair of Apisto Njsseni.

But I've now seen them going for £18 a pair at the same place - so not so bad

 

[Verminator89]

Paid £55 for my syno angelicus quite a number of years ago. The red cactus plec I had was worth a fair price, especially as an adult and I suspect the EBJD pair are worth a bit too. Nearly bought some syno granulosus this year but the shop was charging £225 each.....decided I wasn't rich enough.
P.

Indeed EBJD pairs are expensive. I payed £25 each for a male and female just over two years ago. I've since lost the female, as with alot of JD's they have health issues when young and she died, however i've since learnt two EBJD breeding WONT create EB fry, so i bought a female JD and now they breed

 

[SlyPolak]

What exactly are those fish??
DANG purty

 

[Verminator89]

The male is my Electric Blue Jack Dempsey
The female is a regular strain Jack Dempsey

They are magnificent fish, a little shy and timid but not at all boistrous aside from the odd nip. Amazing fish to keep