Would you purchase a $4000 dollar fish?

[goofball310]

Would you purchase a Peppermint Angelfish (Paracentropyge boylei) for $4000 dollars?

 

[WWiley]

No. WW

 

[asmujica]

Depends, does it frag my corals? Does it do water changes? Does it add supplements? Does it feed the tank? Can I teach it tricks?

 

[pete_ra]

why do u ask, if there is a seller online i would like to see it!

 

[Questlove]

as John Travolta once said I]"A $5 shake? That's milk & ice cream right? They don't put any burbon in it or nothin?"[/I]

I'd like to see a picture of a $4000 fish....

 

[lebowski]

ABSOLUTELY!!!!!!!!!!!!






































































NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[goofball310]

I have an LFS that is selling them for that price.

 

[dendronepthya]

I can't afford it, but in the past, the market value of a peppermint angel was closer to $10,000.

 

[Bass Master]

I wonder what it tastes like....Fish maybe?

 

[goofball310]

 

[tomheo]

I have an LFS that is selling them for that price.

Whoa, really? I see you're in SoCal...mind letting us know which LFS? I'd love to see one in person!

By the way, I've heard they normally go for about $10k...must be cuz of the bad economy. (It's like when I saw the Z8 at the BMW dealership that was $50k off the normal price).

 

[goofball310]

The average price for these fish is $6000-10000.

 

[Project Reef]

Wholesale they go for 2-2500. Mark, what store locally?

I heard that some guy in Japan has an actual spawning pair of these guys.

4 grand is a decent deal, but I'm wondering which store locally can afford even the wholesale price.

 

[goofball310]

PR,

Victor is willing to ship them in if he can find 20 buyers, and you know Victor. He loves to beat prices on any fish. I went to his shop today and got a great deal on a Golden Pygmy, but not as good as your deal.

 

[Project Reef]

LOL, Awww that Victor, he's so sweet.

 

[Schmev]

Why in the hell would there be a market that high on a fish in the first place and still be legal to catch them?

 

[Tahoe Ocean]

I wouldn't see paying $4000. But that's because I'm too poor and there's no way I would have the means of taking care of it unless it was a super easy fish, but with that $tag I doubt it is an easy fish.:eek1:

 

[Craig Lambert]

Only if it cleans house, and does yardwork.............

 

[NewMariner]

I think Id die if that fish died:eek2: :eek2: :eek2: :eek2:

 

[intheband]

i find it amusing that we all scoff at the idea of a 4000 dollar fish...when most of us probably have ten thousand dollar+ tanks that use hundreds of dollars of electricity every month

i guess there really are degrees of insanity