What your most expensive fish?

[ngvu1]

What is your definition of "most expensive"? I would change that to "Most amount of money spent on a fish" ;
To me, most expensive means how much you pay for it and how much joy you get out of that. For example, I got a pink carnation coral for $40. Everybody seeing that coral was like "wow that is so beautiful" . It lasted me 40 days. That is like $1/day, so not very cheap but not so expensive.

Having said that, the most expensive fish would be a wild caught flame angel. I bought it for $32 at a lfs. After acclimating, I dropped it in. I saw it swimming for a few second and poof.... it went behind the rocks. Never saw it again. That was like $32 "gone in 60 seconds"

 

[1.0reef]

I've seen I couple fish offered for around 20K, some koi for far, far more. Obviously not mine.

 

[dieselkeeper]

I just added a female watanabe angelfish. Going to be looking to get a male soon.

 

[loumaggs]

I just added a female watanabe angelfish. Going to be looking to get a male soon.

Inwas going to get these but went for a pair of swallowtails instead

 

[Davesgt]

most expensive saltwater is my maroon yellow stripe breeding pair, my freshwater is my show quality blue eyed pleco ( small fortune lol)

 

[Saltwaterwill]

My most expensive fish is a cardinalfish

 

[p0st]

My most expensive fish was my yellow Foxface. Somehow I'm not that into fish that cost €100+. Corals on the other hand...

 

[loumaggs]

most expensive saltwater is my maroon yellow stripe breeding pair, my freshwater is my show quality blue eyed pleco ( small fortune lol)

Is there a reason those plecs are so expensive? Or is it just supply and demand?

 

[Davesgt]

Well its kinda a long story but to make it short this pleco started being brought to the states in the 70's and then all of a sudden almost stopped being seen about as fast as they were brought in. The collection site of these fish are in Columbia in a district where heavy drug trafficking takes place and gang wars are, so collecting them still to this day is almost impossible! I collect Plecos (L-numbers) and this was a dream of mine to have this fish for some time. To me it has stunning presense

 

[spectra]

I love these... I've only ever seen two and purchased both of them and they became a pair I only see them about once a month

Me to I only really see I if I move a rock or two....my kid does not believe there is a fish in the tank

 

[dieselkeeper]

I also have a female swallowtail that gave the new watanabe hell for 3-4 days. Increased feeding which I think helped them come to an agreement that there is plenty of food to go around.

 

[reeffirstaid]

My most expensive fish has been my Maldives Zebra Surgeonfish. I dropped $ 1,200 on him. In the past I have had several candy basslets, but each time I get one some tragedy seems to strike and I lost them. The first one died when my ozone controller failed and the ORP in my tank shot up over 500 mv and the second one died in a sudden parasite wave.

 

[loumaggs]

I also have a female swallowtail that gave the new watanabe hell for 3-4 days. Increased feeding which I think helped them come to an agreement that there is plenty of food to go around.

I sometimes find increasing the feeding for my tangs just gives me more energy to fight

 

[kaylashires]

Sailfinn tang

 

[Boston reefer]

Can't remember which one was the most, but all of them are pretty spendy.

 

[merlberg]

Here's mine. It cost me a whole new tank set up, new sump, skimmer, chiller, the whole package.

It is so pretty... What kind of fish is tht?

 

[merlberg]

What is your definition of "most expensive"? I would change that to "Most amount of money spent on a fish" ;
To me, most expensive means how much you pay for it and how much joy you get out of that. For example, I got a pink carnation coral for $40. Everybody seeing that coral was like "wow that is so beautiful" . It lasted me 40 days. That is like $1/day, so not very cheap but not so expensive.

Having said that, the most expensive fish would be a wild caught flame angel. I bought it for $32 at a lfs. After acclimating, I dropped it in. I saw it swimming for a few second and poof.... it went behind the rocks. Never saw it again. That was like $32 "gone in 60 seconds"

[emoji102] wait so the fish just literally dissapeared and you couldn't find it -_-?

 

[ngvu1]

I found the remain later.... it was dead maybe on the first day

[emoji102] wait so the fish just literally dissapeared and you couldn't find it -_-?

 

[merlberg]

I found the remain later.... it was dead maybe on the first day

Yikes!!!

 

[loumaggs]

Can't remember which one was the most, but all of them are pretty spendy.

Wow, a girl can only dream of those fish