What's Your Most Expensive Livestock?

[Fizzicks]

There is a similar deformity in clowns. ORA sells them as "stubbies". Kinda cute imo. Shorten lifespan and frequently sterile from what i understand though.

Ive heard of em!
They (short bodies) only come from captive breed operations due to well, survival of the fittest. Most of the fish in the SW trade are wild caught. And those of course are generally fit specimens.
Now that were seeing a huge increase in captive breeding for SW fish Im sure more will come to market.
My short body red tail was imported from a thai fish farm.
No surprise clowns are the first SB's considering we CB all kinds of color morphs.
Id spend a stupid amount of money on a SB black storm clown!

 

[Forsaken77]

800 bucks for a short body red tail catfish.

For those of you reading who don't keep freshwater.
Its basically a catfish with a deformity making it "stubby"

Does it still get ginormous like other red tail cats?

 

[Fizzicks]

Does it still get ginormous like other red tail cats?

They generally get about half as long. But they're fat AF.
My red tail in particular has a pretty severe deformity so he may be even shorter than half.

 

[Forsaken77]

$260ish for crosshatch trigger.

Not a bad price. I've always wanted one of those! I only found them sold in pairs recently though for like $600.

Someone had a video on a boat in Hawaii that showed dozens of Crosshatches feeding at the surface. You could've just easily stuck a net down and scooped up like 20. Makes me wonder why they're so expensive, especially with most people not wanting to spend over $50 on a fish. This was before the Hawaii ban as well.

 

[smoothmove]

Paid $140 for a <2 inch purple tang . Tang is doing great.

 

[andrew james]

I think Candy basslet

 

[roberthu526]

$300 for a gold flake angle. $270 for a lineatus fairy wrasse.

 

[BigKid4788]

$1700 - interuptus angel
$1500- gem tang

Bought them because not any people have them. I thought bl their beautiful fish

 

[ca1ore]

While I'm not keen on spending premium $$ for corals with silly names that will become commonplace in the hobby once established (well, most will), I do have soft spot for rare-in-the-hobby fish. Gem, Zebra and Black tangs were all north of $600, and my Mauritius Lapillus leopard wrasse was north of $300.

 

[Crabs McJones]

Every time I see these threads, I think it's my wife trying to catch me So the most I've spend was $5 sweetheart

 

[themcnertney]

I think mine is 150$ for my Vlamingi Tang...

 

[Forsaken77]

I think mine is 150$ for my Vlamingi Tang...

Wow, he's big! You have the Magnificent Foxface as well. I find them so much more interesting than the regular yellow Foxface. It took me so long to find one, now I have 2.

 

[Forsaken77]

Every time I see these threads, I think it's my wife trying to catch me So the most I've spend was $5 sweetheart

Too funny ;Joyful

 

[Forsaken77]

They generally get about half as long. But they're fat AF.
My red tail in particular has a pretty severe deformity so he may be even shorter than half.

What do you keep him in? A pool? Lol. I had a giant snakehead back in the day when Petland Discounts chain stores were around. They always seemed to leave out how big the fish actually got (before the internet). He was in a 90 all by himself and only ate large goldfish.

 

[Sea MunnKey]

$300 for this beauty from Reef Raft Canada:

Dude amps ... whereabouts in Buffalo? I may pay a visit to RandyO this weekend ...

 

[Sea MunnKey]

much more for a certain photosynthetic Blue "nepthea" ...

 

[XNavyDiver]

I think the most expensive thing currently in my tank might be the male square anthias. But that was in large due to the shipping charge. I'm pretty sure everything else including all corals were less than 50, most frags were less than 20 a piece. Nothing high end in my tank... so far.

 

[Radman73]

I've been pretty cheap. Paid $80 for an orange-back fairy wrasse. I'll be blowing by that one sometime in the next year or so though. Too many expensive($100-$250), to me anyways, wrasses on my stocking list.

 

[Yuki Rihwa]

The most expensive fish that I used own is Japanese Dragon Moray Eels, it's cost $1400 bucks.

 

[Sea MunnKey]

The most expensive fish that I used own is Japanese Dragon Moray Eels, it's cost $1400 bucks.

Is that the same eel in your avatar? ;Nailbiting