For the Seahorse keeper that has everything...

[Carcharodon]

I don't know if posting this here is allowed, but I couldn't help myself...this is by far the most expensive marine critter I've ever seen offered:

http://www.aquabid.com/cgi-bin/auction/auction.cgi?sw&1247708402

This is just for fun...but if one of you do end up buying it I'm going to require a finders fee

 

[Leroy]

I hate to wake up one morning and find it dead. I think it would have ruined my day then to top it off my Maserati would have been stolen.

 

[dz6t]

$99 seems to be a bargain to have for that sea horse
I think if you are not part of New England Aquarium, stay away from that one.
show quality goldfish are more expensive than that, they go for $150 to $1K

 

[FOXYB]

i believe he is talking about the buy it now price of $9800.00

 

[Liam]

i believe those are a protected species,i wonder if it was collected legally

 

[fanaglethebagle]

I'm almost positive you need a permit to have sea dragons

 

[nicks387]

It says it was captive bred.

 

[dz6t]

It says it was captive bred.

Right

 

[Carcharodon]

There are two facilities in autailia that legally export CB animals...I think they generally only sell to public aquaria...I actually saw these guys in Montery a week ago...really, really cool animals.

 

[Joel A]

Right

lol.. we can at least agree on one thing..

 

[fishmom]

They are one of my favorites. I am hoping that they will be less rare in the future!

 

[FMarini]

geewhiz--i hope whoever thinks about owning one of these is prepared.
These are temperate water fish, requiring huge tanks, and lots of live mysids. Even thou they maybe trained to eat frozen stuff, consensus still is they require lots of live foods.
The curator at the dallas world aquarium told me once that the costs of bringing in all the live food just for the leafy seadragon exhibit was more than they pay some of their folks.
A few yrs back a few juvenile leafy seadragons appeared on a japanese website, and the going rate was 5K, they also claimed they were captive bred, and while i've read in the literature that a few places have got them to bred, that pretty much all leafys were wild caught.
let hope they really are captive bred

 

[NH REEFER]

The new Georgia Aquarium has a breeding pair cool animals!

 

[Carcharodon]

According to wikipedia they aren't all that rare in the wild...I guess if they are hard to keep alive in captivity, the high price makes sense so only people that can afford to care for them properly will keep them...I'd love to do a seahorse tank some day but would probably go for lower end ponies...