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.
That fish would blend in well with a lot of purple coraline algae
Not a good candidate for me, for my kids like to stick thier hands into the tank and have my shrimps clean them...so even if I got a seperate tank I would fear that they or a niegborhood kid would get hurt because are they not venemous or posionous(I always forget which one is which)
no need to delete. Your just not the first person to come across that fish and go OMG! You gotta be kidding me! Don't think it was a poll, just a general thread a good while back.
I know about koi and they can get very high, well past that fish. I have never seen a fish that high in the marine aquarium trade except for sharks, but i do not really pay close attention to fish, I am more of a shrimp lover. I was not thinking about the price as much as I was thinking about if you woke up the next morning and saw it dead in a piece of equipment(like a powerhead or something). Or if it jumped out of your tank and your cat was chewing on it like it was a kitty treat. How would you feel not having any guarantee except that it arrived alive? (eventhough in both cases it was probably your fault)
Mine was a type of jawfish, I paid just over $100(paid too much probably) for it but killed it with in a month...I attribute this to not knowing what I was doing back then.
I think people buy fish like that so that when they have a dinner party they can casually tell their less well-off friends how much they paid for it. It's all about 1 rich guy trying to impress another rich guy with their stuff.
The most I ever paid for a specimen was about 15 years ago, before I was married and had kids, I paid $300 for a Bonnet head , and $250 for a black tip reef shark, and $150 for a large Green Moray(in a 1,000 gallon tank I used to have). Actually were good buys back then from a friend who was able to get straight from a ditributer. Nowadays I dont have big tanks or much money, so the grouper I just bought the other day for $79 was kinda pushin the envelope.
What puzzled me is..."no arrive alive guarantee. But we DO guarantee it won't be DOA".
Can someone explain the loophole to me on this? What the HECK is the difference between guaranteeing it will arrive alive, and guaranteeing that it won't be dead?
Either way...am I the only one that thinks that fish really isn't that pretty?
back on topic...I spent $79 on a Powder Blue. But I'm with Fly...dont' ASK how much I've spent on a coral before. hahahah
Arrive alive usually means that the guarentee lasts a few days after arrival. No doa means that if it is alive when you open the box then all bets are off.
65 on a clown fairy wrasse... but i bought it twice cuz the first one died
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