The Yasha goby is such a beautiful nouveau iconic reef fish, it’s easy to forget that this fish is not that common or widespread. This fish had its aquaristic debut as recently as 1999 and while they are common in most aquarium markets, there’s still one place where this fish is as rare as the peppermint angelfish.
Australia is blessed with incredibly rich and diverse marine life, and we enjoy their fish and corals very much. However, importing live fish into Australia is mostly a no-go, so when it comes to cleaner shrimp and royal grammas,they need to breed their own.
The Yasha goby is another species which is incredibly rare in Australian waters, and only a handful of fish have ever been collected from this country’s shores. This is why at珊瑚礁秘密澳大利亚a recently collected trio, a pair of fishwithits candy colored pistol shrimp, is priced at AU$4,000!
That’s still $3,000 in U.S. dollars or about a thousand bucks a pop for the shrimp and each fish. With its colorful red and white body colors and with that sticker price, they might as well call this fish the peppermint goby. Mr. Rice put it best when he commented that for that much money you could fly to America and eat a whole sandwich of Yasha gobies and still have money left over.
It just goes to show that rarity and demand isrelative，到您喜欢哪种鱼类，尤其是您居住的地方。毫无疑问，如果该物种不那么普遍，那么西方礁会很乐意支付数百美元，就像某种童话般的哭泣或奇特的神仙鱼一样。因此，下次您在LFS上看到Yasha Goby时，或者如果您现在的水箱中有一个，请感谢您只花费您的晚餐，而不是整个礁石坦克。
