Sorry again for the crappy pictures. This is a platinum bichir that they had at my LFS. Kind of hard to tell in the pictures but it is actually very white with black eyes. It was priced at about $230.
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Sorry again for the crappy pictures. This is a platinum bichir that they had at my LFS. Kind of hard to tell in the pictures but it is actually very white with black eyes. It was priced at about $230.
The store I work at just got one too ours is going for $200 another local store has one for $250 they're all coming from segrest.
Edit: Just realized this was at Gerbers that's the other store I mentioned they must have lowered the price.
Edit: Just realized this was at Gerbers that's the other store I mentioned they must have lowered the price.
Hey, you’re in Cincy! Nice to see another member so close. What store do you work at?
Around the area here, I know of Gerbers, Aquatics and Exotics, and Aquatics Galore. I frequent Gerbers, and I’ve made the trip down to Aquatics and Exotics, but I haven’t been up to Aquatics Galore yet. It’s on my to do list?
I'm actually all the way down in Northern Kentucky. I work at World of Pets. I usually hit all those stores you mentioned but I've never been to aquatics galore either.
Obviously I have to say Gerbers just based on the scale of it. Then I might be biased but I think we do a good job at getting some of the weirder stuff in down here at World of Pets we always have a few good oddballs in.
Aquatics and Exotics is probably my favorite besides those two just to see some bigger monster fish. But I've never seen anything that really blew my mind besides the fly river turtle and shark tank.
A flashlight fish? I'm surprised that made it to a fish store! I hope someone had the proper care conditions to keep it alive and healthy, because I'm assuming they're not easy to keep because of how deep in the ocean they live. Do you know more about it?
Anomalops katoptron was the species while they can live deep down this species actually comes up at night and feeds off the reefs so while it can't live in a brightly lit tank it doesn't really need any special care they happily ate brine and mysis shrimp. I actually kept one for awhile until I ended up doing around a 50% water change and it ended up dying the next day. After being otherwise healthy for a two or three months. I've never been able to find a cheap one again otherwise I'd love to try again I could see the pale eyespots from across the room at night.
Edit: I like to keep my rarer fish after they die so I still have him in a jar somewhere. Juusst in case they become extremely rare even in the wild someday.
That's so cool! I hope you can find another cheap one soon!
