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View Poll Results: How much money have you spent on one fish?
less than or equal to $50 48 29.27%
less than or equal to $100 82 50.00%
less than or equal to $250 28 17.07%
less than or equal to $500 5 3.05%
less than or equal to $1000 0 0%
less than or equal to $2000 0 0%
less than or equal to $5000 0 0%
greater than $5000 1 0.61%
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Old 04-24-2007, 06:08 PM   #31
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The LFS robbed my 55.00 on a midas blenny.
Thats the most Ive ever spent on a fish.

Corals- you dont want to know.
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Old 04-24-2007, 06:27 PM   #32
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250 on a mystery wrasse . got mean so it had to go . got great credit on it though ! lately most of the fish have been around the 80 mark .
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Old 04-24-2007, 07:47 PM   #33
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It might of been a better idea(for the distribution) to make the poll private.
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Old 04-24-2007, 08:50 PM   #34
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I never buy a fish over $80
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Old 04-25-2007, 08:54 AM   #35
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i don't think i've paid more than $40 on a fish... the most expensive piece of coral i have bought was a zoanthid rock that was huge (to me) and had at least 6 different color combos on it, 100's of polyps, and that cost me $70... and at that time i had even less money than i do now and it hurt then,


a fish i could never pay very much for, it would be my luck to die
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Old 04-25-2007, 09:25 AM   #36
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$90 on a cuttlefish here
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Old 07-19-2007, 07:54 PM   #37
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i voted 5k + (spotted hand fish )
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Old 07-19-2007, 09:27 PM   #38
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If I vote for less than or equal to $5000.... I guess that covers my chromis
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Old 07-19-2007, 09:50 PM   #39
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i voted 5k + (spotted hand fish )

I didnt know what it was...so i looked it up and it says that it is one of the worlds most critically endangered marine fish.

http://www.arkive.org/species/GES/fi...thys_hirsutus/

Did you keep him in a reef tank??
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Old 07-19-2007, 11:00 PM   #40
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Thanks for the vote!
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Old 07-20-2007, 06:02 AM   #41
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i usually buy the very young and watch them grow up
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Old 07-20-2007, 09:53 AM   #42
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I paid 200 for my sargassum trigger.

Some guy over on RC just paid $1000 for this golden black trigger (I'd never seen one before - its a Xanthicthys caeruleolineatus so its reef safe).
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Old 07-20-2007, 11:41 AM   #43
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$50 for me, but I have only been in this since january. Also, considering I have seen these fish for $400 US, or $699 a pair, I think I did alright
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Old 07-20-2007, 12:15 PM   #44
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Its a rhinopius scorpion.

here are some more crazy ones... http://www.justrarefish.com/html/sco...for_sale_.html
I have to agree with flyguy that the Rhinopius Scorpion would be worth much more to me than a tang. The Dragon Moray and Crosshatch Trigger are also favorites of mine.
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Old 07-20-2007, 12:24 PM   #45
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Ive been doing some reading on that spotted handfish........its really a crazy looking, unique and incredible fish. There were only TWO of them reported spotted in the wild between 1990 and 1994. They are Endemic to the lower Derwent River estuary in Tasmania. As of 2001, only 3 breeding colonies were known to exist.

its surprising to me that fish didnt cost $50,000 through a black market sale

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