After a visit to a local Aquarium/fish supplier, and the shock of seeing a VERY VERY VERY expensive fish I was wondering how much people would pay for a freshwater fish at the most? (and what would that fish be?)

CM

Most I've paid for a freshwater tropical fish is $100 (should have been $150 but when you're getting something ordered in for you you can usually come to 'an arrangement' since the shop has got a guaranteed buyer).

What was the fish? Was actually 3 brazilian butterfly pl*cos (yes @$100 each). I've had one die (I was not happy about it - but thankfully it wasn't the female) and now I've bred 5 replacements (unsexable as yet) with the next batch on the way - hopefully doing better (numberswise) this time.

Do I regularly fork out so much - no, it was a reward to me for finishing my university studies. I'd never contemplate forking out $5000 for one of those Asian arrowanas (I'm not that rich).

My limit is probably about $150 - would definitely be some sort of pleco (not really into the Name Brand discus) and I'd probably be getting 3 of them at the same time (so hopefully I'd get a pair).

Would I ever buy just a single expensive fish - probably not - you eliminate any possibility of natural reproduction.

It'd depend on the fish, the size, quality, whether or not I could afford it at the time, if I had a place for the fish, etc. I'd pay $150 for a nice scarlet pleco for example. Asking how much you'd pay for a fish is kinda like asking how much you'd pay for a car. Could say I wouldn't pay more than 5K for a used econobox. But I'd pay $50K easy for a brand new nice sports car.

I would shell out 5G for an asian if i had 5G as you can triple your investment every year if it is a perfect specimen and well looked after. I certainly would for an red fuision arowana as some adults are being sold for around 100G mark upwards not bad for a initial investment of $6500.