Reasonable price for full size denison barbs?

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To my happy surprise my LFS has full size dennison barbs...at $35 each. This seem about right or bloated pricing? The barbs are around 5-6 inches each and fairly thick. I have had no luck anywhere finding adults...everyone has tiny 1" - 3" juveniles (which would make perfect snack crackers for my O).

What are their water requirements? I really wanted to add some to the main tank down the line.
 
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I picked up my school at the local Petco there only 899 each I had to grow them out and now the big ones are running about 4 in maybe 5 but that is a screaming deal

as soon as our contract gets settled and I can set up my classroom tank I'm going to try to pick up another half dozen or so then grow them out all winter in the 90 and put them in the 450 with the rest of the gang next fall

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Jexnell said:
A word of warning... if it fits, it's lunch...
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The pricing sounds good though, like you said tiny ones range $15/20 each. Full grown @$35 is a deal. Cheapest I have ever seen adults are $50 each.
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I thought of this pic when I posted. I took a red crayon and recolored Toni...:ROFL:

My tank has a lot of 'cover' and plants...at least I tell myself that will help!
 
FINWIN said:
I thought of this pic when I posted. I took a red crayon and recolored Toni...:ROFL:

My tank has a lot of 'cover' and plants...at least I tell myself that will help!
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At 35 a pop that is a very expensive gamble I personally would never risk it with a large cichlid
 
celebrist said:
At 35 a pop that is a very expensive gamble I personally would never risk it with a large cichlid
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Yeah, agree on second thought... I could eat at a restaraunt for $35 bucks. It's hard finding dither type fish that the O can't eat or get so big they add to the bioload or create space issues. Could care less about silver dollars, they seem rather ugly and skittish to me.
 
FINWIN said:
Yeah, agree on second thought... I could eat at a restaraunt for $35 bucks. It's hard finding dither type fish that the O can't eat or get so big they add to the bioload or create space issues. Could care less about silver dollars, they seem rather ugly and skittish to me.
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What size tank is your Oscar in one thing I've discovered is when you put silver dollars in a big enough tank they're actually quite chill

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Dennison prices are a joke, you'd think, or at least until you dig into how rare they are in their natural habitat. They are endangered and it's only our hobby that is keeping them going. I paid, if I remember rightly, about £45 for six 2" individuals about 4 years ago, i'm from the uk, that's £9 each!. The very same LFS today when I went in for my frozen bloodworm had 1" tiny tiny dennisons on sale for £12 each. And to think you need at least half a dozen for a happy group then that's quite an outlay.

On a plus side though, they are a quite a long lived fish, maybe 7 years, and they are a brilliant, lively, colourful addition to any tank. However, they do require a good length in a tank, 6ft is ideal. As a shoal they will use the full length of the tank to dart about.

And yes, at those prices you don't really want them ending up as food!
 
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