My most expensive fish $ 1300.

[Gamegurl564]

Gorgeous fish!!
I was just watching an Arrowana competition from Japan.
$1300. would be a low price there.
You should check it out, some of those fish were amazing.
Every color you could imagine

 

[WhistlingBadger]

If we legalized arowana, the prices would go down...
(Is that too political?)

 

[Lajos_Detari]

I thought wild caught are more hardy fish less prone to desease than captive bred discus.

The medicine you find in your LFS or Internet always dosent work on most occasions. I find most of my fish dead when I use them.

But like I said seeing a fish for the 1st time that you want will convince yourself more to have it and buy it for home.

Wild caught fish may have stronger genes as they are not mass bred from the farms, unlike the current Neon Tetras or Guppies which have weaker genes.
But wild caught fish are prone to be infected with parasites in the wild.
Also, since they eat "live food" in the wild, they may get internal parasites.
They also don't get gill flukes which are "immune" to most medications which happened to some Cichlid fish(Blue Ram, Discus, Red Head Tapajos, etc) that are bred from the farms.
I suspect the farms are unable to "cure" them from the gill flukes and they are being passed down to the fry.

 

[Lajos_Detari]

I could get snotty about people spending too much on fish, but I'm not sure how I'd calculate the prices on the fish I went to Gabon for and brought back. There was a whole other experience tied into that though...

I guess you will have a totally different appreciation for the fish if you visited the place where the fish came from unlike people who just buy them from the lfs.

I've never been into large fish. I find that create a too sharp focus on how small our tanks are for their needs. Put a shoal of amandae/embers in a 75 gallon, and you can imagine you're seeing a fish in nature. To do that with a large fish, you have to glass line and flood a house. It doesn't work for me - I always feel sorry for the big fish.

Fully agree.

 

[Lajos_Detari]

Gorgeous fish!!
I was just watching an Arrowana competition from Japan.
$1300. would be a low price there.
You should check it out, some of those fish were amazing.
Every color you could imagine

Yes, high grade Arowana are very expensive.

But they also have low grade and smaller Arowana such as the 4" silver Arowana which are being sold for about US$10.
There are times, I was tempted to buy it.
By the way, Arowana is more suitable for a big pond as they grow too large.
Even a 6ft tank is considered small for them when they grow to adult size.

 

[Lajos_Detari]

The medicine you find in your LFS or Internet always dosent work on most occasions. I find most of my fish dead when I use them.

Actually, some diseases are easy to diagnose but some are difficult, and sometimes the fish may have multiple diseases.

If they have multiple diseases, you may need to treat those that are more serious/urgent unless you can mix the medications.
Some medications cannot be mixed, else you will kill them.

To really succeed in curing them, you will need a correct diagnosis + the correct medication, correct dosage and correct duration of treatments.
If you overdose, you may kill them.
If you don't treat long enough, the diseases(parasites, bacteria, virus, fungal infections) may return and become even stronger or become immune to the existing medications.

Some medications can also be too strong/harsh and if the fish are weaken from the disease, they may not survive the harsh medication.

Some medications become less effective when the parasites can hide under the fish's mucous(example: gill flukes) and become protected by the fish's mucous in their gills.
Or if you have sand/soil in your tank, the parasites can hide under them and become protected from the medications.

Lastly, if you have plants in your tank, the plants may absorb the medications making them less effective to the disease.
So, for effective treatment, using a bare tank is the best.

 

[GaryE]

If we legalized arowana, the prices would go down...
(Is that too political?)

They'd rapidly become extinct, which would solve the demand problem...