Saw a tiny Sailfin Tang at LFS last night

Bob I · #1 02-26-2004, 03:26 PM

I was at Wai's last night, and saw the smallest Sailfin, or Desjardins in one of his tanks. It was only the size of a quarter. At the most it was the size of a loonie. I almost bought it, as it would probably fit in my 50 for at least a year, but I was afraid to ask the price.

AJ_77 · #2 02-26-2004, 04:00 PM

It might fall under his "All Sizes, One Price" policy... Or is that just for corals and frags?

< NOTE: this is not a bashing post. >

Quinn · #3 02-26-2004, 04:44 PM

Yup, I doubt you'd get any type of deal. I've seen some pretty small tangs out there. He had a clown tang that couldn't have been longer than 2" at one point... maybe they're running out of fish out there. Or maybe the young ones are just dumber and easier to catch.

Delphinus · #4 02-26-2004, 05:07 PM

To be fair, most of what you're paying is the transportation costs, and other overhead. Which is gonna be the roughly same for a 14" fish or a 1" fish coming from the same place on the planet.

Aquattro · #5 02-26-2004, 05:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Delphinus

Which is gonna be the roughly same for a 14" fish or a 1" fish coming from the same place on the planet.

Nay!! You can fit a lot more 1" fish in a box than 14" fish. The box of fish is a flat rate to ship, so the more fish in the box, the cheaper each fish is.

Bob I · #6 02-26-2004, 05:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Delphinus

To be fair, most of what you're paying is the transportation costs, and other overhead. Which is gonna be the roughly same for a 14" fish or a 1" fish coming from the same place on the planet.

Actually I did not intend to start a price bashing thread. I saw a very small fish, and I like small fish. I thought someone else might like it.

Delphinus · #7 02-26-2004, 05:23 PM

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Originally Posted by reef_raf

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Originally Posted by Delphinus

Which is gonna be the roughly same for a 14" fish or a 1" fish coming from the same place on the planet.

Nay!! You can fit a lot more 1" fish in a box than 14" fish. The box of fish is a flat rate to ship, so the more fish in the box, the cheaper each fish is.

Yeah, yeah. Don't get all economic on me now! There should be SOME correlation, but if you spend $100 on 100 fish or $200 on 200 fish but then spend ... I don't know ... $300? $500? $1000? to have the box put on a plane, the cost of shipping is still I bet the major bottleneck.

That's all I meant.

Buccaneer · #8 02-26-2004, 05:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Bob_I

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Originally Posted by Delphinus

To be fair, most of what you're paying is the transportation costs, and other overhead. Which is gonna be the roughly same for a 14" fish or a 1" fish coming from the same place on the planet.

Actually I did not intend to start a price bashing thread. I saw a very small fish, and I like small fish. I thought someone else might like it.

Thats OK Bob ... you buy him and fatten him up and I will take him off your hands in a year

Cheers

DiscusZ · #9 02-27-2004, 02:11 PM

It really depends.. I got a Large Yellow tang there once and it was $49 (This was the nicest biggest tang I have ever seen in an LFS it was almost the size of my hand, and other places i was at the same day (I was looking specifically for tangs) had smaller ones for more money.

Its not a bad thing to ask Bob, you could sometimes be surprised

Pisces · #10 02-27-2004, 03:26 PM

I have a sailfin tang, she (or he) is pretty big now. They're neat fish. She doesn't have much (ok not really any) yellow left. She is more black and white than anything. And, depending on her mood (angry at another fish, or I startle her by coming around the corner to quick) she'll change color.....she can go almost all white, or all back. She looks the best when her stripes are really bold though.

I haven't looked into the process of posting pics here yet. But, if you'd like to see a pic pm me your email address.