have you ever heard of the term if you have to ask then you probably can't afford it? Well, this may be the case. With everything its supply and demand. The fish out of the river is free, does not cost 400 or 600. Its free!
You guys have managed to troll me into the thread. There are many things in this world that are sold and the price is not disclosed. There are silent auctions, bids and offers as well.
I'm not obligated to post a price on my buy/sell forum as I pay to advertise here, at the same time I can chose not to advertise here. All the people who have emailed me, I wrote back a nice courteous email explaining the current situation with this fish.
Oliver has them listed on his price list but no price either, he told people probably in the 600 dollar range fish, however, he did not bring any in or sell any. The reason we're all guarded on the prices is due to the uncertainty of this fish. We don't know how many more will be available either, it could be 4 it could be 100. If I sold them for 50 dollar profit, and to find out they will no longer be available, I'd be pissed, wouldn't you?
but if I made 300 dollars on a fish and then find hundreds in a month, you guys would probably be pissed. As for prices being high or prices being low., I don't see the stingray keepers, complaining about a wild or captive bred black diamond being expensive at 1000-2000 each, right? And how many black diamond rays are in the US or in the hobby? Probably in the tens of thousands right? How many cichla intermedia do you know of alive in the US right now??? For all the people who seem so confused and perplexed, answer this last question.