Have Valentini puffers become hard to find?

[Cyanohater]

I have an established reef and think that purchasing a valentini puffer would be okay. Heard they will nip at corals though as I said I don't believe he will do enough damage that's noticeable or kill colonies. I noticed that they were at my LFS awhile back. However now I can't find him on the page. I Aldo looked him up and it appears that the price has raised quite a bit from when I first saw them. Are you still able to find them at your LFS? Are they more pricey-er?

 

[fishski13]

Still see them quite often in all my lfs. Usually $40.

 

[Rham1281]

My Petco has 8 of them at any given time. I'm hoping they keep that up because I wanna get one for my tank when it's set up.

 

[RedFrog211]

Prices are affected by availability, which also fluctuates depending on the season. I’d assume you’d find some again soon

 

[Big G]

My favorite fish, a neat blue spot puffer was a model citizen in the tank for months and then one day, it went smorgasbord on a real nice chalice. Looked like me munching on nachos. . .