PRICES IN AUSTRALIA ARE REDICULUS !!!

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Ramesh;2643737; said:
The reason many fish species are expensive here is because of our very stringent quarantine laws which can drive up the price and cost of importing or smuggling exotic animals into the country.
The reason for these measures is because Australia has a very unique and special environment that is kome to many endemic species that have evolved here in isolatation for thousands of years. This has made them vulnerable to exotic species that can introduce new diseases or simply out compete them for often scarce resources.
Your are dead right about many fish being over priced especially common varities and many Natives also but this could be due to a much smaller population and thus market size but I do double take at the prices I often see of what I would call 'feeder fish' or a 'dime a dozen' varities.
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Ramesh already answered your question already...
 
lol555;2642922; said:
Well, Great i ring a few LFS and i see silver arro cost $300, Bichir costs $600, Lungish Cost $800 and even a saratoga cost $90. These are all young and small fish prices u guys in america are sooo luck. i hate use lol
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Well your obviously looking in the wrong place. Although depending on what lungfish, that sounds pretty good.

You can get silver arowanas for $250 here, bichirs for $100-$800 (depends what species), and togas for bout $60.

The reason why all these fish are expensive is because all these fish you have talked about (except the native toga of course) have been smuggled in the country by a gutsy few. Then they are bred in large ponds here in aus, and sold. Even though they are farmed here they are expensive, because smugglers can charge whatever price they want if the fish is popular.

Sometimes the fish are illegal and so it is very expensive. (not always) Asian Arowanas $600-$8000, Snakeheads $300, Clarias Catfish $250.

Lol, one fish that has always interested me on the price is the ornate pim. It is on the legal imports list yet it costs $100+ :screwy:
 
i used 2 work for a mate who owed an aquarium and imported his own fish in.. quarintene takes out a large chunk and also the fees in holding the license for importation of live fish.. which is passed onto the consumer. Stock loss plays a major factor also. give u an example... he ordered 1000 neon tetras... there cheap to buy from the wholesaler and still cheap when u add on shipping and quarintene costs. Out of that 1000 neons... he was probably left with around 600 plus neons. i pulled out several bags from the airport of brown watered dead fish... not enough oxygen... so by the time there ready for sale another 100 or so would have died through the quarintene period.. hence a 10cent fish becomes $3
With all the fish "we" forum browsers like.. australias stringent laws bans all importation of them so people will smuggle them into the country.. price is based upon demand. Plus the costs of trying to smuggle fish into aust is lot more expensive then the standard shipping of legal fish. I have grown out of the cute community type fish and enjoy keeping tank busters .. and there all on the "GREY" list so keeping it isnt illegal but importing them is. suppose no ever said a hobby was meant to be cheap
 
I keep having a dream that I live in south Florida

and can get any fish I want by dredging a canal...
 
Wow....I cannot imagine how much Asian Aros will cost there if they are lega...

I've been to Aus a few time round that I really do not see anything attractive (exotic wise) and prices are really horrid!
 
LOL thats crazy ass prices
 
RockyGold - when you say there is nothing attractive exotic wise, you need to know where to look. We can get most exotics here if you are willing to pay at a premuim price.

My partner is from Singapore and she wanted "star tortoises" same as the ones she had in her country. We located them but at a cost of $3,000 each. I think she paid about S$100 for them back in spore.

Price is high because of the same reasons why asians arowanas are high.
 
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