To be fair I have seen VERY good deals at Big Al's. It all depends on what their landed costs are. I got an astounding deal on my S. gigantea when I was prepared to pay as much as 5x what I ended up paying for it. Since then they have imported several more and they have all come in for sale at that same (ridiculously) cheap price, and I'm sure they could have charged whatever price they wanted for them. They do pass on the good prices onto the customers when they get them themselves.
In the case of these percula's, well I have a couple parting thoughts. One, they're very nice true percs, nicer than I have seen at other times. Two, they're larger, so the risk of juveniles that don't make it into adulthood is hopefully past. And three, they're wild-caught, and I think it is correct that WC fish cost more than tank-raised. There has to be an incentive to try tank-raised, or at least a disincentive to try wild-caught.
My $.02 anyhow.
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-- Tony
My next hobby will be flooding my basement while repeatedly banging my head against a brick wall and tearing up $100 bills. Whee!
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