Good Score or Ripoff? (Silver Dollars)

[FESHMAN]

Hi, so I got these two blackberry juveniles (I think they're Myleus Schomburgkii) for ~$50 a piece. So, is that their normal price or too much? They're ~5cm or 2". I just want to know if I'm overpaying because I plan on getting 2 more.
I know their tank is small but they're just here temporarily. I also got 4 regular dollars to act as dithers and so far that works great

 

[Ulu]

I have only owned your basic silver Silverdollars, since the 70's. I didn't know there were variants.
(Are those variants, hybrids or morphs?)
No clue here, but I grew some very large silver dollars in just a 30 tall. They outlived every other fish.
Barbs, tetras, cats, angels . . . nothing outlived the Dollars.

I quit when I got my Oscar. It was a different world for me then. My tastes have changed.

 

[krichardson]

Fifty bucks aint too bad for them.I mostly see them going for close to one hundred bucks each.I have four blackberries myself.

 

[fishhead0103666]

I see them going for more than that on a regular basis.

 

[FESHMAN]

I have only owned your basic silver Silverdollars, since the 70's. I didn't know there were variants.
(Are those variants, hybrids or morphs?)
No clue here, but I grew some very large silver dollars in just a 30 tall. They outlived every other fish.
Barbs, tetras, cats, angels . . . nothing outlived the Dollars.

I quit when I got my Oscar. It was a different world for me then. My tastes have changed.

Yeah there are many species discovered under the Myleus genus and other classified as subspecies. To be honest I myself am not very well versed with the sd species, I know the regulars, red hooks, barred and striped. I'm sure there exist way too many more. I think the blackberries are a special locality of the Myleus Schomburgkii (somebody correct me if I'm wrong).

Fifty bucks aint too bad for them.I mostly see them going for close to one hundred bucks each.I have four blackberries myself.

I see them going for more than that on a regular basis.

I think I might treat myself then!

 

[krichardson]

I understand the blackberries are not naturally occuring but rather a created or "designer" strain.