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Paul Cimins

26-08-2003 01:13 AM

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I was just wondering what do you guys think what is fair market value for
Rainbow starting with Bosemani .
I paid $14.00 for a two inch fish.

Victor M. Martinez

26-08-2003 03:34 AM

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Paul Cimins wrote:
I was just wondering what do you guys think what is fair market value for
Rainbow starting with Bosemani .
I paid $14.00 for a two inch fish.

Way overpriced, I think. IIRC, I paid about $5-6 for each of my bosemanis.

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Victor M. Martinez

http://www.che.utexas.edu/~martiv

Jim Brown

26-08-2003 04:04 AM

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Paul Cimins wrote in message
.net...
I was just wondering what do you guys think what is fair market value for
Rainbow starting with Bosemani .
I paid $14.00 for a two inch fish.

Lot of factors to consider. Size, health, where you live, type of store you
get your fish from.
I would say a 2 incher for 14 bucks is high.

Jim

RedForeman ©®

26-08-2003 03:03 PM

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3.99 per at petsmart...
"Paul Cimins" wrote in message
.net...
I was just wondering what do you guys think what is fair market value for
Rainbow starting with Bosemani .
I paid $14.00 for a two inch fish.

Victor M. Martinez

26-08-2003 06:12 PM

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RedForeman ©® wrote:
3.99 per at petsmart...

Yeah, but every single rainbow fish I've seen at Petsmart has really mild
coloration. I guess they get them from breeders that don't have really good
stock. It's best to get rainbows either from reputable breeders or wild-caught.

--
Victor M. Martinez

http://www.che.utexas.edu/~martiv

Jim Seidman

26-08-2003 10:02 PM

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(Victor M. Martinez) wrote in message ...
Yeah, but every single rainbow fish I've seen at Petsmart has really mild
coloration. I guess they get them from breeders that don't have really good
stock. It's best to get rainbows either from reputable breeders or wild-caught.

I haven't seen rainbow fish at Petsmart. (And I've been looking
regularly!) I'm curious whether you (or anyone else) has purchased one
of these colorless fish and taken it home, and whether its color then
improved.

The reason I ask is that I've reluctantly purchased other poorly
colored fish at Petsmart, and had them improve tremendously at home.
The most recent example was a rosy barb that was almost gray. His
color steadily improved until, two weeks after purchase, he was a
beautiful deep iridescent red.

I have a theory that the color of Petsmart fish may have more to do
with stress, nutrition, etc. than with genetics. But I don't have
enough examples to say that with any confidence.

Incidentally, I found Boesemani rainbows at Petland, where they were
$12 for 2-inch fish. It seemed a little high to me, but then they're
the first store I've found around here (SW Chicago suburbs) that
carried them at all.

- Jim

Victor M. Martinez

26-08-2003 10:13 PM

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Jim Seidman wrote:
I haven't seen rainbow fish at Petsmart. (And I've been looking
regularly!) I'm curious whether you (or anyone else) has purchased one
of these colorless fish and taken it home, and whether its color then
improved.

The only fish I've ever purchased there were feeder goldfish to cycle the
pond outdoors.

--
Victor M. Martinez

http://www.che.utexas.edu/~martiv

RedForeman ©®

27-08-2003 03:02 PM

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True... on mine, they are weak colors at best... we have a nicer place, that
DID charge $20 per... now they are more like $15 but they DO have some nicer
specimens...
"Victor M. Martinez" wrote in message
...
RedForeman ©® wrote:
3.99 per at petsmart...

Yeah, but every single rainbow fish I've seen at Petsmart has really mild
coloration. I guess they get them from breeders that don't have really
good
stock. It's best to get rainbows either from reputable breeders or
wild-caught.

--
Victor M. Martinez

http://www.che.utexas.edu/~martiv

Josh	27-08-2003 08:33 PM

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ya, In my area I paid like 8-10 for one, so prolly a little overpiced, but
thean again that is in "my" area
"Paul Cimins" wrote in message
.net...
I was just wondering what do you guys think what is fair market value for
Rainbow starting with Bosemani .
I paid $14.00 for a two inch fish.

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