Believe it or not, this is what Arowanas go for around here

[DEUCE22]

Duece 22 what stores in the OC are slangings Aro's for 8 bucks. If you know the store holla at me. Here in LA a "baby" Aro goes for like 22 easy.

down here in westminster. place called 405 tropical on goldenwest and bolsa. they aren't on sale right now but the last time i was there like 2 days ago they had them for 13 bucks but, that's still pretty damn cheap. they have baby jardinis there at around 3'' for 30 bucks a piece.

 

[yodaLBC]

Damn, that's a robbery !

 

[taelee]

That's at Congressional Aquarium in Rockville, MD. That guy has been there for awhile!

 

[goestonemoa]

man thats a week price for a silver at that size i got two 8" silvers for 50$ from my guy.
and i can buy 16" silvers for like 100$ any day of the year

 

[Lhop1980]

@Taelee lol Yep thats them. Finally a native! So yeah you can attest that they have some outrageous prices.

 

[Yumu]

That little guy will go for like $40-$50 by me.. Depends on how much rent the store is paying.

 

[Sickfish]

I get silver aros for free all day long!

 

[Jon M]

Nope thats for him. They always keep one in that tank around that size. Plus its only like a 10 gallon. I know it sounds crazy but thats just how they get down. www.congressionalaquarium.com I could name a ton of other ridiculously priced fish there too.

At least it's 4.5" in a 10 gallon tank. There's a jerk here who's store is going out of business (thank god) and he has a full size (I'd say 10-12") matured albino Oscar in a 10 gallon tank with no heater (temp is at 71 and you can see the shattered glass shards from a used to be heater all over the substrate in the corner) and a few dead rotted fish around the filter intake in the tank and bloated floating pellets that look like they've been sitting at the surface of the water for a day or two. Plus the poor O looks like he's starting to form some nasty HITH or recovered from some (which I doubt in the poor conditions he's in).

Makes me want to save him but I'm stocked up. PLUS knowing all this the moron is trying to sell this O for like 40$! He should give him away for free to someone that knows what they're doing before he kills the poor guy. (chances are he's already too far neglected though)

 

[valderi123]

that's one pricey aro

 

[pi-eyed]

Silvers that size around here(michigan) are $60-sometimes more depends on the lfs. The 13" + are 125$ and the 20"+ are around $200.

The higher dollar amount may land the aro a more suitable home with better informed owners--I don't know could go both ways.


-----Chris