is this crazy money

[Faramir]

Originally posted by isaac newton
Hmmm have oscars ever been breeded in captivity???? A friend of mine has a 75 gal tank and that fish is huge! It hardly has any space to swim around.. To breed these fish wouldn't you need a sizeable tank to house these fish and let alone breed them?

Yes, you do need a big tank, but given that Oscars are not hard to breed, and virtually all the ones you see are captive bred.

Baensch says that Oscars are sexually mature at 4.5", which must help.

 

[somefinnfishy]

Originally posted by Faramir


Yes, you do need a big tank, but given that Oscars are not hard to breed, and virtually all the ones you see are captive bred.

Baensch says that Oscars are sexually mature at 4.5", which must help.

Maybe they should wild catch a few the inbreeding on them has gotten out of control we have more deformed oscars come in as babys and with hole in head as adults. I havent seen 1 perfect oscar in a the thousand we import every year.

 

[cdawson]

Originally posted by ChilDawg
I concur. There is no guarantee of a proven breeding pair breeding in a new tank.

I also agree, when we moved our pair of 6 inch convicts to a larger tank the male beat the female to death.

 

[ChilDawg]

Originally posted by Cearbhaill

"Proven breeding pair" indicates that there has been successful breeding with each other, but I would still want clarification of when, under what conditions, and with what percentage viable fry. Some fish are better parents than other fish

I am under the impression that some vendors sell cichlids as proven breeding pairs if they have done so little as laid eggs together. Of course, female-female "pairs" could lay eggs together, and this would lead aquarists to buy such pairs. Moral of the story: get a clear definition of what the seller means by "proven breeding pair".

 

[OrionGirl]

Ehhhh. There are many fish that sell for much, much more. Rays, koi, discus, many saltwater fish, many rare plecos, cichlids, etc.

 

[ChilDawg]

There was a very juvenile Motoro Stingray in a tank (with Elephant Noses, too, grrr...) at A World of Fish in Richfield, MN, which was selling for $199.99, and that was only one of many at a steep price.

 

[valerie]

The LFs by my house has rays for 800$can

 

[ChilDawg]

Even with the rising exchange rate (no flames, please) that is really, really expensive!!!

 

[SBee]

Jinks and I were at Big Al's a couple weeks ago......and a guy there was picking up his arrowana.....he had it there for some reason........anyways......he nonchalantly told us that it cost him $5,000 (or 3,000 maybe? one or the other) and that he had a collection at home.
This was just a young guy too.....and I couldn't get over how UN-EXCITED he was.....he just seemed like "ya, whatever, thousands of dollars for a fish, ah well"
craaaaazy!

 

[valerie]

yeah arrowna are VERY VERY expensive(except those silver ones i think whish still go for about 150-300$around here). A LFS by my house has a 8000$, a 15000$ and a 20 000$can arrowna.

They are beautiful but i could never justify getting a fish that costed that much. I would rather have a car