Fire fish

[CleanYourTank11]

Anyone saw or heard of this Helfrichi before, cool but packing some price tag. $1300

 

[Lenny718]

Beautiful fish but in my opioion not 1300 beautiful lol

 

[CleanYourTank11]

Absolutely correct on that my friend... How's your new setup?

 

[BKLYNREEF123]

Beautiful but way too much money IMO.

 

[cmantis]

CYT dont hate. You know you want some polynesian fire in your tank. Plus its only 1299 not 1300.

 

[Lenny718]

Absolutely correct on that my friend... How's your new setup?

It's doing good Allan, I can't take a decent pic to save my life though lol

 

[reefs4life]

When did they get to be that much? Helfrichi fire fish used to go for around $70 if I'm not mistaking

 

[CleanYourTank11]

@ ,Cmantis you always have some skimmate coming out of your mouth lol but y eah your right you know I envy the rareness,good to dream my friend.
@BKLYNREEF, totally agree I wonder if it will hold that price tag and if we start seeing more numbers of them.
@Lenny, good to hear minus the pictures lol running leds?? I should probably just check your thread haha
@reefs4life it's similar to the "Helfrichi" but collected in deeper water in Polynesia. Looks like it hasn't sold yet, I'm going to do some reasearch.

 

[reefs4life]

I don't see how the fact that it was collected in deeper waters in Polynesia makes him worth $1,230 unless the ones from there are immortal lol

 

[CleanYourTank11]

I don't see how the fact that it was collected in deeper waters in Polynesia makes him worth $1,230 unless the ones from there are immortal lol

Haha I hear you, I know deeper water fish are always a little more money due to various factors in collection but still it's definitely a crazy $ for a type of fire fish. I've never really done hardcore searching for fire fish but personally I have never saw that type until yesterday so I'm assuming it's a new find or very rare.

 

[albano]

That price actually includes airfare to Polynesia to personally pickup the fish.

 

[cmantis]

They have been popping up for a bit now. Colors and size are slightly different.

 

[reefs4life]

Haha I hear you, I know deeper water fish are always a little more money due to various factors in collection but still it's definitely a crazy $ for a type of fire fish. I've never really done hardcore searching for fire fish but personally I have never saw that type until yesterday so I'm assuming it's a new find or very rare.

But Helfrichi are not new, like I said, the regular ones are about $70 if that hasn't changed also. The whole new thing about these is the fact that they are Polynesian but I don't see what will make them look all that different and justify the extra cash. Not to mention, I never like the whole idea of deepwater fish in a shallow tank for the rest of their life. Not that putting a fish in a glassbox, in general, is all that kind, but from deepwater where it's dark and conditions are generally different than the bright lights of our tanks is more of a shock IMO

 

[AudiSportB5S4]

Really pretty fish. I have had the common firefish and now have the purple. I like how that one seems to be a combo of the the two!