Banjar

[cropsebride]

Went to my local fish shop today, and they had a banjar red arowana, it was beautiful.
Sadly i dont have a big enough aquarium or e nough money fo rit.
It cost £ 695 and came with a certificate to say it was CITES approved and it was also was microw chipped .

Are all arowana microw chipped ? and do they all come with certificates?

 

[Trentos]

Went to my local fish shop today, and they had a banjar red arowana, it was beautiful.
Sadly i dont have a big enough aquarium or e nough money fo rit.
It cost £ 695 and came with a certificate to say it was CITES approved and it was also was microw chipped .

Are all arowana microw chipped ? and do they all come with certificates?

only endangered species... that is an asian arowana. silver and black arows are not endagered so they are much cheaper and readily available. Endagered species must have paper work to show that they were not caught in the wild but were raised in captivity.

 

[cropsebride]

Thanks for the reply. Was just curiouse as i've never seen on that came with a certificate. It a good idea.

 

[Chaos32]

Wow can"t believe they are selling Banjar reds for those prices in the UK. Back here they are cheap. Where does the cert says it is from? ie. which farm?

IMO, banjar reds / banjar golds are a little bit of a tease. Juvenile fishes look good & look full of potential. When they mature, the look very pale & bare very little resemblance to either true reds nor gold. Better off getting RTGs or even greens lol. Over the years there have been Banjars further enhanced with XBs. The little ones look ok...awaiting the results when they mature.

 

[cropsebride]

I dint see the certificate, i think you have to ask to see it. there was just a sign on the tank that said it came with one.

 

[Chaos32]

Well regardless, the price certainly is steep

 

[DiXoN]

Well regardless, the price certainly is steep

very steep a banjar red over here would go for around £250 from an aro dealer and even that is too steep imo.
RTG's at 6'' got for £350 from arofanatic (a member here called HP) and these are much better fish i think they even come from imperial palace originally.

only asian aros are chipped as they are cites 1 and need a chip and cert to show they are farm bred.

 

[Chaos32]

In KL, banjars reds are only 100+ USD for juveniles. Banjar golds a little more.

 

[cropsebride]

its about 9-10 inch ..Dont know why its so expencive, maybe there hard to find over here, i've only seen 1.

 

[DiXoN]

its about 9-10 inch ..Dont know why its so expencive, maybe there hard to find over here, i've only seen 1.

there was quite a few brought into the UK last year but as you can get a much better RTG for not much more money these days not many banjars are brought in now.
they are not that good a quality red and there was one for sale at around 8'' in durham last week which would have been a lot less money than £600.
whoever is selling at that price is making a killing.