Was It A Good Trade?

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ultimatejay said:
Usually at that size you can't give them away
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100% correct. And to compare what a hobbyist should get and what a fish store should get is apples to oranges. Even though most lfs owners love fish/aquarium keeping, they are not in the trade to keep a cool fish for some time to sell it off with no mark up.
 
You've been trying to sell it for quite a while. No interested buyers at 200 bucks right? IMO your lucky you sold it.
 
acttr
most people want smaller size aros but some people want them big right away so they can put them in their big tank right away...
but where I'm from a 15 inch sells for $70
 
they are very common here
 
Agree that big fishes seems to have a low demand as very little people got the space for em.
Therefore i guess its a good deal since u even got money for em? =)
 
Yup large Aros are hard to get rid of even for free so your lucky to get $130 for a large Silver. This also applies with large Asian Aro specimens. Last year I tried selling my near 2ft AA+ grade Crossback Asian Aro posted for $1000 obo for months. Had no takers until I dropped the price down to $800 then I started having offers at well under that price. At such low cost offers I ended up keeping it. Even a 6" AA grade Crossback Asian Aro would sell for $1500+ in Canada doesn't mean it's gonna sell at double or triple the price when it gets larger. Noone wants a large old Aro where it could die sooner then later from health/age issues. In the end there are a few ppl out there willing to pay the price but majority of them won't. Two years ago I even gave away my 3 x 2ft high shine silvers for free cuz I couldn't sell them. Noone locally has the tank space.
 
OdOePiKe said:
acttr
most people want smaller size aros but some people want them big right away so they can put them in their big tank right away...
but where I'm from a 15 inch sells for $70
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but they also go 4" for 40 around us. I never seen them that cheap Justin unless they needed to get rid of them.
 
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