Expensive fish

I've heard the Peppermint Angels being super expensive. The most I've paid was $60 for my Brazilian Flameback Angel.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7580293#post7580293 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by DaveG99
I really do not understand why someone would pay a few hundred dollars for one fish! I dont care how rare it is. A fish is a fish. Rare or not no fish should cost over $100. I guess people liek to have a "rare" fish so that they can brag about it. Just because its rare it doesnt mean that they are better. A good example is a black tang. It costs anywhere from $250-$500. Its just a yellow tang that is black. I think the yellow ones even look better. Maybe I'm just cheap.
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Me cheapo too:lol:
 
people buy expensive fish for the same reason why people buy expensive cars, or antiques... there is no difference.

peppermint angels are found soooo deep, people can and sometimes do die when collecting them.. Hence the price tag :)

2000$ for a koi is chump change. Go to Japan and find someone who has a garden with koi and ask them how much they paid for them.... 2000$ i guarentee will be the cheapest koi they have.
A wholesaler out here told me one of his clients in Japan bought a Koi for a $1 million dollars! (no lie and no exageration...) No that is crazy :)
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7586232#post7586232 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by zemuron114
people buy expensive fish for the same reason why people buy expensive cars, or antiques... there is no difference.

peppermint angels are found soooo deep, people can and sometimes do die when collecting them.. Hence the price tag :)

2000$ for a koi is chump change. Go to Japan and find someone who has a garden with koi and ask them how much they paid for them.... 2000$ i guarentee will be the cheapest koi they have.
A wholesaler out here told me one of his clients in Japan bought a Koi for a $1 million dollars! (no lie and no exageration...) No that is crazy :)
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Beat me to the punch :D My friend sells prize koi starting at $10K and has several 100K's on hand.

I've sold a Clarion angel for $1.5K at the wholesale level :D
 
koi.. i dont get it.. lol. Although i have to admit some are so beautiful they look like oil paintings. worth 10K+??? never!! 400$ is a pretty good deal on a goldflake. I see them all the time. They are very nice fish. Purple rhinopias go for about 300 wholesale, so asking 1200 is a huge mark up!!
 
Flame angels in the uk cost around the £60 mark thats pounds, you guys in the US should be grateful. Although everything in the UK seems to be priced by simple means, get the price in the US and then change the $ sign to a £. Thats why it's ripoff Britain. I've paid £90 for a Maroon pair.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7578630#post7578630 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by redrunblue
Conspic angels are interesting because the bigger ones are actually cheaper than the smaller ones. I saw a juvenile 2-3 inches go for $2000.
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That's cause conspics usually come in pretty big. Smaller ones are much harder to find/come by and like most angels, large adults don't acclimate as well as smaller ones.

A Clarion at 1.5k is a deal because in actuality they should be completely unavailable because they're illegal to catch. Course you could be referring to "the old days" when they were available....but that was a long time ago.

Retail prices are usually about 2-3xwholesale and anything that's hard to find often gets a bit more of a premium
 
I've seen clarion's for 2k...hybrid tangs for 1-2k....there's a website that gets some pretty rare stuff in...i think it's the marinecenter? but am not sure. there are tons of rare fish and inverts that command 1k+
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7580451#post7580451 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by thor32766
maybe some people like paying alot for a fish because it is cnet have to something in your tank, that is rarely seen. I paid 300 for my black tang and have no regrets. I love him to death.
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I dont get it. Black Tangs are ugly. Its like owning a berka bag. An ugly overpriced, but very trendy item.
 
Pepermint angel as well as another very ugly fish full of spines would cost around 10K each.
If I don't find the pics will have to take pics of both o
Reason why is that they are fond so deep which is risky for collectors also those fish need like 24 hours to be taken out to water surface after they are caught as they have to be properly decompressed.
Will post pics of them if I manage to find them back in my pics collection if not will take pics of both of them in my tank again:D
Just kidding.
As to why people would buy such expensive things well it's just human nature of wanting the rare and non avalable to everyone. A flame angel is more beautifull than the pepermint yet how many pepermints have any of us seen in real life?
 
I personaly do not care how rare a fish is. I like a fish for what it is not for how many there are. It just doesnt make sense buying something that costs 3-4 times what it should cost just because less people have them. That marinecenter site is way over priced. I think its funny how they say "if you see this fish buy it right away". They are trying real hard to sell these things.
 
My most expensive fish are my 2 lineatus wrasse - one was $120 and the other was $150. I bought them because I think they are beautiful and wanted them.

Funny, a lot of people would think nothing of buying a rare coral for $200 just because it is rare. :D

Crystal
 
I have always thought the yellow tang was the most striking of the tangs, but so plentiful. Imagine if it were rare, people would line up to pay $400 for one. Look at the gem tang, cool fish but not really very pretty. I always try to think of what someone uninitiated would think of a fish. Remember when you first started how cool the damsels looked? Its funny that you have to be a fish geek to appreciate the black tang or gem.....Its nice there are many very nice looking fish in the generic section of the LFS.
 
Most expensive purchased? Quite a few in the $200 range. We just bought a pair of C. semilarvatus at $300. Most expensive fish I ever saw, offered for sale, in person? Probably a Clarion Angel that was going for over $5k. Although, I have heard of fishes going for more.
 
I think one of the best looking fish is a Powder blue tang. And they are under $100. Also the emperor angel is beautiful! There are lots of great looking fish available for under $100. The flame angel is also one of the best looking fish an its about $35-$40. I really love my $3.99 green chromis!!!!
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7588957#post7588957 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by KDodds
Probably a Clarion Angel that was going for over $5k.
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I have also seen the Clarion I believe you are talking about (in Elmsford) and I believe last I asked him the owner was offered $6K for it but didn't sell. He brought the fish in before they became illegal to catch so it has become "his" fish at the store.

I have also purchased a few fish that were in the 100-200 range and I didn't buy them because they were expensive or rare but because I thought they were amazing looking.

Some of the higher priced fish are ugly IMO but there is always going to be someone to shell out the cash for them.
 
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