Very rare fish

[Dadof4]

Another way to look at it is, do we get a few and attempt breeding? Apparently small and shrinking ecosystem....

[BushFishRox]

Another way to look at it is, do we get a few and attempt breeding? Apparently small and shrinking ecosystem....

If you have knowledge of their breeding habits/needs then sure. But since they are rare that is unlikely, and again should be left to professionals, who have biologists on site.

[sevenyearnight]

I looked it up, I thought the same thing too about offering a rare fish to the hobby world, and this fish is listed Least Concern, as it's IUCN Red List Status . I think it's just a difficult fish to catch.

Am I the only one that thinks that fish just really isn't awesome looking enough to be 5K?
Does it sing? Maybe that's it, it's a singing fish. I'd ship it back though if all it knew were Justin Bieber songs.

[J-P]

on another forum the go through that site on a regular basis and pull / link all the odd ball high ticket fish like this and make jokes about it. I am surprised that no one had seen this previously.

[Flutter]

Hopefully it is just rare in the trade.

[El Scorpio]

Why make a down payment on a house when you can have an Australian flathead perch?

[Reaperpilot2014]

Liveaquaria tends to be quite pricey, but they are good on their 14-day arrive-alive stay-alive guarantee. I've bought several fish from them before, and once, they even extended the guarantee to 30 days as I struggled to keep one of their fish alive. Even so, I could never justify spending that much on a fish unless I were going to attempt breeding them in a professional setting.