Yeah 3600 for a conspic isnt awful, if you wanna see crazy expensive look up the ballina angel. Chaetodontoplus ballinae, it lives among the conspiculatus but has a very small breeding population so the fish is rarely seen. When seen it usually goes for $70,000-$75,000.
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$3,000(not 3,600) for a Conspic is pretty high. It was more than even DD normally sells them for however because it was a small specimen. Almost all Conspics that come in are 6-7 inches or more and this one was smaller(5 inches I believe).
Ballinae angels are not legal to sell because they only inhabit a small area around Ball's Pyramid near South Wales. They are actually quite abundant in the area, but they only live in that small area. The area is double protected, because Ball's pyramid(very small island that is literally a sharp pointed rock coming out of the water) is protected and so is a very large area around it which is near Lord Howe Island. On top of that double protection, the species itself is protected so I don't know where you would have seen one for sale.