Chambered Nautilus

[Mandosh]

Is you tag line a wish list or species you currently keep? To me it looks like a whos who of the hard to find, hard to keep, and even harder to afford.

[chilumba]

Originally Posted by Mandosh

Is you tag line a wish list or species you currently keep? To me it looks like a whos who of the hard to find, hard to keep, and even harder to afford.

No I don't own any of them but maybe onE day they are all deepwater Hawaiian fish. Some of them you probably won't see them in Canada unless I get them!

[o.c.d.]

So why do you have a list of deep water Hawaiian fish on your profile? Is that like a hit list? You're a total Gangster! and you may be the only one in Canada to get them. Yep Gangster! You loco homme

[chilumba]

Originally Posted by o.c.d.

So why do you have a list of deep water Hawaiian fish on your profile? Is that like a hit list? You're a total Gangster! and you may be the only one in Canada to get them. Yep Gangster! You loco homme

Yep you caught me LOL. Just my favorite deepwater Hawaiian fish I plan to own on day and hopefully breed some of them. And letting the captive bred ones for sale to canada first!

[SpateD]

@Chilumba - Good Luck dude. I don't know anyone wanting to spend that kind of money on insane to keep fish. If you were a billionaire, sure. But you're just asking for failure.

http://glassbox-design.com/2009/440f...lparked-at-6k/

[chilumba]

Well actually prognathodes basabei was selling for $4500 to a hobbyist. Holanthias fuscipinnis was $2000 but recently a deepwater diver got a rebreather and collected them and sold for olny $600 each. As for bodianus sanguineus was $2000. But hey who said I couldnèt collect them myself! Right now there are olny two different people collecting deepwater hawaiian species but Briane Greene used to collect deepwater fish of the pacific like the Dr. suess saopfish and olny sold fort $1000. He own twilight aquatics and said on aother reef forum that he will be coming out of retirement! Also in the past week Rob a deepwater diver collected not one but two female genicanthus personatus a a disclosed location at 257 feet. Both went to EZ marines Tawain and were the sold to them for the price of $6500 each.

[jorjef]

Well there ya go, those aren't billionaire prices!!!! lets all buy a few! lol ... Or I could snorkle to Hawaii and get them for free...Hardest part is snorkling through the Rockies to get there...That's a lot of up hill swimming...

[naesco]

Originally Posted by chilumba

No I don't own any of them but maybe onE day they are all deepwater Hawaiian fish. Some of them you probably won't see them in Canada unless I get them!

You know the extreme difficulties in keeping nautilus.
Why don't you see if you can keep one of them alive and if you are successful for a year or so add another one rather than going all out with 8 or so

[chilumba]

Originally Posted by naesco

You know the extreme difficulties in keeping nautilus.
Why don't you see if you can keep one of them alive and if you are successful for a year or so add another one rather than going all out with 8 or so

That's actually not a bad idea in fact I just might do that. Didn't even think about that.

Thank You!