Aimara Price
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Wtf? Exactly what I said...... Moves a lot of fish= Walmart = cheaper prices. In my personal experience I'd rather deal with customer oriented vendors like Wes. To each their own. Like everything some will pay more for better customer service. Others just want a cheap price.......
Agreed, I've been going as hard as I can since about 1985, when my uncle had a predatory community tank. I saw the fish and had to have one of everything. Some took years to get, some were easier. I never remember being able to legally own Asian Arowanas. Ever. The only Wolffish I ever remember seeing on a wholesale list was H. malabaracus... Common Wolffish. My Aimara Wolffish was 7" when I got it from Wes. That was about 45 days ago. It came in bold and ate literally 5 minutes after being unpacked(right after a couple of nice gill flares to make sure I knew who was the boss!!! Lol!!!) It was never scared or hid from me. It recognized me as it's food source in about a week or so. It swims around about 30% of the time now. Any time that I'm in the room ,it's nose rubbing on the glass wanting food. I can honestly say that it's not driftwood. You'd just have to own one to see what I'm talking about. They are a completely different fish than a mala. The only fish that gets as tame as quickly as my Aimara Wolffish did, would have to be any member of the Micropterus genus. The Black Basses. If I could buy an Aimara from Petsmart for $500 or from Wes or someone else that I like as well for $6-700, I'd honestly say that I would buy it from Wes. My reason is....I can call,text, or E-mail him and say "Hey friend, I sure would like to have a so&so from the East Bumblef@ck River in Kindom Come, and sooner or later (it's usually sooner)I'd be looking at it in my aquarium instead of in a book or on the web. I can ask him stuff that Petsmart doesn't know, and he has real world knowledge about it or has kept it in the past ,usually. Aimara are just located a long way from civilization is what it boils down to. IMHO, it will be proven that there are quite a few more Hoplias species that are out there and different enough to warrant a separate species name. They just look different to me. Like the upturned head on the H. australis(I think that's the one&how to spell it) . Alot of these different colored ones that we call H. malabaracus sp.are gonna be different species I bet. Just subtle differences that end up costing alot of money to the folks who want them. Just like I paid quite a bit for my Aimara, some other fishgeek might want this new species bad enough to pay the price. Supply and demand. All the time, every day, all day long.
I appreciate all the support I get! Looks, I've been doing this for many years, and one of my rules is I do not collect money or take orders on fish I do not have on hand, simply because I don't know what will die, what may not come in or not come in. I could just mark up 10-20% on fish that are not in my tank and try to make a profit. If they come in perfect then that's good, if they don't , then I have to refund or credit people, and its a mess.
also have to realize, I never hard sell or force people to buy. I never attack other vendors without provocation. As for prices, you ever wonder why its $15.00 for steak at Denny's and $50 at Ruth's Chris.
also have to realize, I never hard sell or force people to buy. I never attack other vendors without provocation. As for prices, you ever wonder why its $15.00 for steak at Denny's and $50 at Ruth's Chris.
You get what you pay for, whether it's fishing lures, vehicles, a very tasty dry aged cut of beef, or whatever. My opinion is if I think about it constantly and keep telling myself to get one, I might as well do it. Who knows, it might be like my Painted Snakeheads(Channa bleheri) that I waited too long to find and buy. Next thing I know, one of my favorite fish of all time can't be owned in the good ol' US of A. It's just money, I can print more. Lol!!! Me buying that Wolffish didn't take one chicken nugget from my daughters. I think it helped the man that caught it, the man that imported it and twisted my arm very hard to convince me to buy it, and finally it helped me. It helps me every day. It makes me smile when I see it, I like to show it off to people so they can enjoy it also ,thru me. It helps everyone and I like it alot more than some green paper in my pocket. Thank you Wes. Regardless of the cost, I really like my fish. You sent the absolute best one you could have to me. Just exactly the size & temperament I wanted. It's Christmas morning everyday I wake up now.
Ah, Wes sells sickly diseased fish. Ha! Lol!!! I think all of the vendors here sell quality fish. Honestly, I've never had a problem with receiving a sick or Doa fish ever in 25 years since I've been buying fish and having them shipped to me. Luckily.
