Most expensive live aquaria divers den freshwater fish $1900

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Prior to these two fish, I think the most expensive fish I've seen is that Goldie pleco from south America on Divers den.. The one that has three different color patterns based on what stage it's in. Can't remember exact name or number. I believe it was $1,000 for it.

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I looked at their non divers den clown loaches. The prices actually aren't bad for the non quarantine divers den stuff. Like small clown loaches are $11 something. Their prices have gone up on Divers den (as with everything these days though the $11 isn't that much more Ethan I remember the price before). The Diver's den clown loaches they have now for 3 for $150 used to be 3 for $75 not too long ago.

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So small is 1.5-2". Those cost $14 at imperial tropicals. The next medium size is like 2-2.5". This is where their price gets high.. imperial tropicals has 3-4" ones for $30 .

 
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I think their biggest customers are really wealthy people who own saltwater aquariums, so they’re probably able to charge so much due to some of those customers spilling over into freshwater fish. It might actually help them to put huge markups on some fish, since a lot of their wealthier customers probably want to brag about how much they spent on them.

I also want to add to this that they might also have a general markup that they apply to all of their fish and that people just dont notice it when they markup neons x amount of times or x percent but do notice it when they apply that to the more expensive fish.
 
My biggest issue with them isnt necessarily the price of the fish, since they seem to have a positive reputation, but actually how they handled the shipping. When i went to buy a bunch of different items from them a few months ago they had a shipping charged on each individual item, as if they were shipping each item individually when these were things (fish and plants mainly) that absolutely could have and should have been shipped together. Why you would charge to ship each fish and each shrimp and each plant individually, i have no idea.
 
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