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Best Y. sidthimunki price ever!
Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2009 12:55 pm
by Martin Thoene
Dropped into a local Chinese owned shop today and saw a dozen really cute and healthy 1" TL Yasuhikotakia sidthimunki going for CDN$3.99 each or 3 for $10.
I have never, ever seen this species so low priced anywhere.
Martin.
Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2009 4:07 pm
by bookpage
Well, did you buy all of them?
Great find. Wish I had been there with you.
Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2009 5:57 pm
by Diana
That is so low there is something wrong. Maybe as simple as mis-identification on the shipping list or other related mistake.
I have never seen them under $12 USA, and this was a group buy, organized by an aquarium club. In the stores they are starting to come down from the $20 each that was common a couple of years ago, but nowhere near 3/$10!
Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2009 6:58 pm
by Katy
We got ours for $8.99 each, but they are awfully skinny (have lost one of 12, the rest are fattening up quickly, though)
I can't believe that price! But adding up the gas to get up to Toronto.....
Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2009 7:08 pm
by Martin Thoene
Diana wrote:That is so low there is something wrong. Maybe as simple as mis-identification on the shipping list or other related mistake.
I have never seen them under $12 USA, and this was a group buy, organized by an aquarium club. In the stores they are starting to come down from the $20 each that was common a couple of years ago, but nowhere near 3/$10!
Sure, there was something wrong. They were labelled
Botia sidthimunki ! But that's all. No, they were beautiful specimens, obviously well fed and healthy. I bet I could have scored the dozen for $35......but I'm not in the market for that species.
Martin.
Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2009 6:37 am
by JonasBygdemo
I found sid's on a Swedish shop's page, and they wanted like $15 for one, so you've found quite a deal!
Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2009 8:33 am
by Mike Ophir
hehe Martin,
I recently came across a few Sids priced at $5 each at a local Petco....interesting trend
Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 8:46 am
by Marcos Mataratzis
Lucky you...
Here in Brazil you will never find them as low as US$ 30 each.
Re: Best Y. sidthimunki price ever!
Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 9:47 am
by Ken
Martin Thoene wrote:I have never, ever seen this species so low priced anywhere.
Martin.
When I first got into the fish biz, the import price for these was about .20 which made them a .99 retail item. Of course that was more than 30 years ago.
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 10:04 pm
by Batch