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So, like many of you I'm sure, I love to browse online retailers and just see what cool livestock is available. Most of the time, I can understand the pricing of rare, unusual fish but tonight I stumbled across this...

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Uhhhhh..... what? This has to be a typo, right?

If not, it may be one of the most ridiculous things I've ever seen in all my years in the hobby. $4k for a grey fish with a few brown dots that will likely spend 90% of its time in a hole at the back of your aquascape... What is going on here?!
 

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Apparently this is what they look like either full grown or male coloration?
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They must be extremely rare, after a quick Google search the only things I can find for sale of this species are pictures
 

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So, like many of you I'm sure, I love to browse online retailers and just see what cool livestock is available. Most of the time, I can understand the pricing of rare, unusual fish but tonight I stumbled across this...

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Uhhhhh..... what? This has to be a typo, right?

If not, it may be one of the most ridiculous things I've ever seen in all my years in the hobby. $4k for a grey fish with a few brown dots that will likely spend 90% of its time in a hole at the back of your aquascape... What is going on here?!
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Common man! :cool: That's a beautiful fish.
 

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This is a drab female. Apparently they are common fish. I wouldn’t pay more than 30$.
I paid $30 for a drab female once and needed a shot of penicillin.
 

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So, like many of you I'm sure, I love to browse online retailers and just see what cool livestock is available. Most of the time, I can understand the pricing of rare, unusual fish but tonight I stumbled across this...

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Uhhhhh..... what? This has to be a typo, right?

If not, it may be one of the most ridiculous things I've ever seen in all my years in the hobby. $4k for a grey fish with a few brown dots that will likely spend 90% of its time in a hole at the back of your aquascape... What is going on here?!
You don't understand special fish. This particular fish has a little lighter brown spot behind his eye. Come on
 
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