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View Poll Results: How much money have you spent on one fish?
less than or equal to $50 54 30.86%
less than or equal to $100 87 49.71%
less than or equal to $250 28 16.00%
less than or equal to $500 5 2.86%
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 0.57%
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Old 08-28-2007, 08:22 PM   #46
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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).
Wow, Just today i paid $29.00 for a 8 inch sargassum trigger. very healthy and active. i guess i got a good deal.
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Old 08-28-2007, 08:29 PM   #47
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Old 08-29-2007, 07:22 AM   #48
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a long time ago, when i had a shark tank set up, I paid 90.00 for a juvenile brown banded bamboo shark.
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Old 08-29-2007, 10:55 AM   #49
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Still learning and it was my bird wrasse in the 90g I had to give away back in So Cal.
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Old 08-30-2007, 11:50 AM   #50
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The most I bought one for was around 70 if I remember right, that was for a flameback angel. The most expensive fish I've had is my Helfrichi Firefish which can cost up to 300 on some sites.
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Old 08-30-2007, 12:17 PM   #51
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Old 02-06-2008, 11:15 AM   #52
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most expensive fish i've owend was a tinker butterfly i didn't pay what is listed was a great fish and died to a power outage

http://www.aquacon.com/Butterflyfish_saltwaterfish.html
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Old 02-06-2008, 11:53 AM   #53
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most expensive fish i've owend was a tinker butterfly i didn't pay what is listed was a great fish and died to a power outage

http://www.aquacon.com/Butterflyfish_saltwaterfish.html
One of the things I don't understand in this hobby, is, how can a fish that lives at depths of 150' live in a home aquarium? I mean the water at that depth must be COLD...so how do they live in our aquariums???

Anyone?
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Old 02-06-2008, 12:43 PM   #54
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an Acanturus Guttatus, for € 125 (about $150) Jumped out two months later...

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Old 02-06-2008, 01:19 PM   #55
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an Acanturus Guttatus, for € 125 (about $150) Jumped out two months later...

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Old 02-06-2008, 03:01 PM   #56
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Old 02-06-2008, 04:48 PM   #57
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One of the things I don't understand in this hobby, is, how can a fish that lives at depths of 150' live in a home aquarium? I mean the water at that depth must be COLD...so how do they live in our aquariums???

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A very good/expensive chiller maybe? Or a converted deep freezer.
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Old 02-06-2008, 05:23 PM   #58
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I've made a promise to myself I will not spend more than $50 on any one item, and so far stuck to it, most expensive fish I've bought was the watchman goby for $30/.
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Old 02-07-2008, 07:22 AM   #59
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i want that galapagos centropyge.... i believe it is hotumatu or something along those lines. One of only two fish collected around the islands for the aquarium trade. they are around a thousand. but want and need is a different thing. I traded a handful of very nice frags and corals for my red sea regal angel. so i voted for his list price of 200 even though he is worth way more than that to me. he is and has been eating for a few months and gaining significant weight @ around 5".
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Old 02-07-2008, 07:29 AM   #60
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The funny thing for me is that the most expensive fish i ever bought was a fresh water ray.
I agree, before I started with reef tanks, I had a 120g sting ray and shark tank With 4 rays and 4 sharks. My Tiger ray cost me $450.
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