I remember when my uncle had an arowana and he had a huge tank for it. It was so fascinating to look at. My uncle used to have two but the stronger, bigger arowana killed it’s own brother. My uncle had that fish for about three months or so, and it was healthy and big. My auntie who was living in the same house as my uncle heard a loud thumping noise, like there was something bumping onto the floor rapidly one night. She went to check it out and saw the arowana dead. It had stopped moving. It has jumped out of its tank even though the roof of it was open a slight bit, and that thing was about 5-6 centimetres thick.
Probably the tank doesnt fit for him, when fish jump out of the tank, there is 2 reason for it The tank size too small or the fish has too much excited for they water, they think they live on they natural environment and wanted to explore it out of the glass
I knew an auntie who would be so proud of her arawana. She's say how little it was when she first got it. And how she's been able to raise it to the size today. I remember people saying that having an arawana in your house was good luck. And the longer it lived, the bigger the luck you'd get.
1988: "Some fields of study have not yet existed, I can only imagine how advanced we will be in 30 years from now" 2019: "I am majoring to become a Dragon fish expert"
I went to a local pet store in my area where they also sell regular juvenile silver arowanas for around P1,200 or $25 each. I noticed that in a separate tank, there is a single arowana which looks almost the same but if you look closer, it radiates golden streaks. I was told it’s a Golden arowana that costs P9,000 or around $180. I badly want it!!!!
Welp the color quality of the fish does have to come to the standards first to have a high price. I've seen many low quality arowanas selling around less than 100 dollars.
I live in Malaysia and bout 30 years ago, there’s a fish shop near my school. The shop had a 5 feet long fish which has metallic rainbow color scales and tail. Me and my friend were so fascinated by it and sneaked to the shop after school to watch it swam. It’s so pretty, looks like arowana but have no idea what fish it was. I’ve never seen anything like that till now
@@DSBP1 Lol... None. Both name given above doesn't look like it. It has metallic scales and when it swam around, the scales just look like rainbow color.
They're not that expensive for an albino white one, it only costs around 150-300 bucks. The prices go up for a red arowana (up to 70K) or a golden arowana (up to 300K). But they're extremely hard to take care of, you usually need a very big fish tank for just one arowana, their body is usually long so a big fish tank is needed for them to swim freely. Sometimes, they can get really aggressive also and they tend to jump off the water surface.
I don’t think you know who Emily Voigt is. She spent years with some of the top ichthyologists in the world in pursuit of this fish. She didn’t mistake the price.
People don’t call them dragon fish. They call them Arawana. Plus it’s not a albino that sells for 300k, it’s the platinum cause at any pet store a albino cost $200
@@pluggothesluggo5509 most coat between 300 and 600 dollars, the really expensive ones are usually the ones that won a competition or the offspring of a winner
Asian Arowana is different South American Arowana. You also showed an Australian Arowana. Your research is insufficient that's why the presentation is also inaccurate.
For any of you living near the Amazon River, there's a Silver Arowana. It's quite a nice fish too. And I think this version is LEGAL to own in the U.S.
I used to have a few. They are scared of the color Red. My brother frightened one and it jumped out of the fish tank, happened to jump out of the window, and fell 10 levels to its tragic death.
Mind Data Intelligence how and why are they afraid of red ? But in Chinese myths , dragons that come to attack and eat humans on every Chinese New Year are afraid of loud sounds and are afraid of red . So ..... is this a coincidence? Or is this a fish version of a dragon ....
Samantha Leow Dragons are considered prosperity,good luck in Chinese mythology. The creature you stated is the Chinese Monster nian(年）which was repelled by the colour red and loud noises
I had one too. I was on junior high. I can't understand why my dad's collagues asking me to sell Vegeta (my dragon fish) in riddicilous high price (I was an idiot, I thought it'd just a fish)
I had no idea, I used to see them now and then, small ones, at the pet store here in Canada in the ‘90’s. I wonder if they are still around? I think the problem back then was you needed a huge tank because they grew fairly fast. That’s why I never got one.
You didn’t mention that there are other types of arowana that are legal to keep in the US. The most common and cheapest is the silver arowana, which has a much more serpentine body type (some were shown in the video) and go for about $90 as juveniles. The extra white ones are called platinum and are much more valuable, like the one that sold for 300k. I’ve been into arowanas for a few years but I don’t have the space for a 500 gallon tank yet, sadly. I’ll get there.
I bought a baby Golden arowana back in 2007 for 1200 bucks,now its almost as tall as me and countless people offered me 100,000 for the fish which is way more than my yearly income.But i wont sell him as he knows me very well and actually communicates with me very nicely and I love him 🙃🙃🙃😁
and my friend’s dad owns one, and one time my friend was threatening her dad by saying she will fry that fish and eat it if he wouldn’t let her go for a vacation to macau.
i remember arowana fishes becoming super popular in the early 2000s, and a classmate, their family kept arowanas AND gigantic arapaima. They lost the arapaimas when a typhoon flooded their area, most likely they got washed out from their pond down to the river nearby.
I watched a documentary from Korea or the US (I am not sure), but there were villagers who would work really hard to catch a single Arowana to sell as food. One really big Arowana can bring enough money to feed the family for months because it was a luxury food. However, those Arowanas that they catch were big as a small child and beautiful.
In the Philippines, the Arowana is lowkey considered a status symbol at least to the people interested in fish keeping. It's considered good luck for both business establishment and wealthy homes.
There was a fish seller in my city . He was famous and was earning well . He had this fish shown above . He used to believe it used to bring luck for his business . He kept it in his shop but one time they were painting the shop and the tank burst .The fish died and so did the business after that .
Asian arowana are expensive because they're on the endangered species list. Other types of arowana are not that expensive however and are pretty easy to obtain.
high demand and low supply its due to the chinese believing it would bring good luck to them they also are endangered in conclusion its due to high demand low supply
Silver arowana are very common and are from the Amazon River. They're not danger and out of all the arowana are one of the least beautiful and cheapest going for $20-$50 a baaby.
True story. I worked in a petland discount back when I was a teen and they had a little one on sale for 80 bucks at the time. Someone comes in to pays for it and when I go to get it for them I did not know the fish jump and when I opened up the top of the tank the fish jumped to his death. The poor fish hit the floor and was dead. We actually had to save the body.
I worked at an aquarium store that had an Australian arowana (legal in the USA). She was big, shiny, and Mean As Hell. People would walk into the store and offer hundreds of dollars for her, though she had a very clear sign on her aquarium that she wasn’t for sale. What was most fascinating to me was how very aware she was of the world around her. She was half-blind so she’d always turn her body so she could watch patrons with her good eye. There was something very intimidating about her. Like she was simultaneously challenging and judging you. I can honestly see why they’re considered a macho sort of thing to own. Their countenance is more intense than a shark’s.
Emily Voigt is a very talented author and I would definitely recommend The Dragon Behind the Glass. It is an amazing book and she did a very job of telling a truly captivating story just about a fish.
Before you do i suggest you research and ask real fish hobbyists first. Not all are endangered especially if the arowanas in the store are bred and not wild caught.
The Asian Arowana is not endangered nor is the law banning its sale and distribution in the United States appropriate. This fish is legal to own and bred at ornamental fish farms in just about every country, including Canada with the exception of the United States still considering them endangered. A law that hasn’t been updated or reviewed since the late 80s. Thanks PETA. With almost every fish being bought and sold, bred at farms specifically in business for the pet trade, their is no impact on this fishes habitat or its wild numbers. In fact, 100% of hobbyists that buy these fish, prefer the more desirable colored ones mentioned in this video. With most wild Asian Arowana being dull or generic in color. Nobody wastes their time taking them from the wild. In that case, they might as well buy either a Silver or Jardini Arowana. Both extremely beautiful fish that look almost identical to the Asian Arowana as far as body shape. The fact that this fish is illegal in the United States and people have gone to jail for distributing them is just plain stupid when you can simply cross the border into neighboring Canada and get your hands on just about any variety of Arowana you can afford. It makes the US laws look silly. Just my two cents. By the way, I hate when non hobbyists make videos about aquarium fish or the hobby in general. These videos make me cringe. The lack of factual information and exploited common knowledge is hilarious.
PETA Is not the organization that lists an animal as endangered. PETA is a joke. That is IUCN's job. Then there's CITES which is a convention between governments to regulate wildlife trade to protect wild populations. These organizations were formed to protect flora and fauna worldwide. These orgs are run by scientists (experts in flora and fauna) ~ the real experts. The Asian Arowana listed as ENDANGERED under the IUCN Red List. It is also listed in CITES apppendix I which makes it illegal to catch asian aros in the wild and use them for trade, but farm raised individuals are listed under CITES II which makes them ok to trade albeit proper permits are needed for breeding and selling, also depends on each country's laws. Asian Arowana IUCN Red List status: www.iucnredlist.org/species/20034/9137739 / CITES listing: www.cites.org/eng/gallery/species/fish/golden_arowana.html
Asian Arowana are 100%, absolutely illegal in the US. They are on the list of endangered/at threat species. Other types of arowana are not though and can commonly be purchased through normal means.
i think its because climate or weather that not suitable with Asian Arowana since it live only in Asia. I have one MGBB (Malaysian Golden Blue Base) arowana and its not endangered species if u mentioning about ASIAN AROWANA.
Its like a hobby to us keeping an Arowana and watch carefully how its grow on colours. We also have competition and these fish are the pageant🤣 Need more work to get more results. There are peoples tanning them for 4-6 months and give them centipedes.
My dad had one of those chili red, given to him by a friend. He had to donate it to a local museum because it had gotten too big and he didn't have money to get a bigger tank.
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Makes a video about Asian arowana forgets to mention the ones that are cheaper costing a few hundred or less than a hundred because they must all be as much as a car right?
Calling mum on the phone ☎️ me: mum, please cook fish tonite. Mum: fish? What fish?! Me: huh?! Any fish mum! Coming home looking at my cooked dragon fish.
its a myth where the fish would kill itself to protect any accidents or harm befalling the owner. theyre stories where owners miraculously survives a car crash only to come home to find their arowana dead.
We also call this Arowana and is so much special to be given as a gift, clearly not as special as to own one. It is believed that an Arowana can live so long and the moment it dies, it means that it saved a family member from death. Before in my family, we were gifted two, all from my Dad's Chinese clients (he's a lawyer), one gold and one silver or which we call 'Albino'.. the Albino almost lived to 10 years... And I must say, they are beautiful magical creatures... and we usually keep them in big, and I mean big aquariums and are fed with chicken or beef meat.
Indonesian here The asian arwana used to be so common we'd usually have them as food, like any other fish. EDIT: My uncle currently has one as a pet. Its only expensive because people say so.
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“I got 30 years for drunk driving and killing a family. What are you in for?”
“Fish smuggling.”
"Fish? What kind of fish?"
"300k dollar fish guarded by electric fence,hunting dog and watchmen armed with M16"
@@harryharold1049 Prisoner: Blyat Cyca
Dragon smuggling
@@anonymouskid3596 *Cyka, if you decide to not use cyrillic like some kind of spy
I was the 360th like lol. Like meh name lol
Friend: Hey, can you hang out today?
Me: sorry, can’t. Taking my fish in for a face lift
It sounds like one of those excuses like “I need to walk my fish!” Lmao
When you're rich nothing sounds ridiculous
I remember when my uncle had an arowana and he had a huge tank for it. It was so fascinating to look at. My uncle used to have two but the stronger, bigger arowana killed it’s own brother. My uncle had that fish for about three months or so, and it was healthy and big. My auntie who was living in the same house as my uncle heard a loud thumping noise, like there was something bumping onto the floor rapidly one night. She went to check it out and saw the arowana dead. It had stopped moving. It has jumped out of its tank even though the roof of it was open a slight bit, and that thing was about 5-6 centimetres thick.
The fish suicided?
Probably the tank doesnt fit for him, when fish jump out of the tank, there is 2 reason for it
The tank size too small or the fish has too much excited for they water, they think they live on they natural environment and wanted to explore it out of the glass
Arowana in wild eat insects from the tree branches which are close to water surface by jumping out of the water .......it could have happen
my uncle has a silver one in his 500gal tank he wants an Asian but they arent legal
@@mikesmith-wk7vy ya I know it! asian arowana are so much better looking than a reg arrowana
My dad owns a 24k golden arowana and he loves it more than me
If you're Asian, that's par for the course. Trust me, everything is worth more to them than you :)
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Do you live on the other side of the world?
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I knew an auntie who would be so proud of her arawana. She's say how little it was when she first got it. And how she's been able to raise it to the size today. I remember people saying that having an arawana in your house was good luck. And the longer it lived, the bigger the luck you'd get.
*”I have a $70,000 Fish”*
*_weird flex but ok_*
Not ur best
I like it
_Bob McCoy Lisa Guerrero will investigate the weird flex of the dragon fish
Is that even relevant anymore?
I have a syrian wife I paid $300,000 investing in anthoer country to bring to the US now that's a weird flex
*imagine a fish that is more important you*
Society is very cruel.
More important than you
Not necessarily, your organs can go for more than +2 million
7 billion people+ humans are worthless at this point (if we weren't the apex predators)
My brain exploded
"only found on the black market in America"
Me: Looks shiftily at my local aquarium store that regularly has a few stocked
Probably south American arowana
definitely not an asian, most likely a silver (south american) or jardini arowana (african). Maybe even a saratoga arowana (asutralian).
Right
@@alexkarasoulos no mate. Jardini is australian aro
@@wansyahir2943 i realized after commenting, thanks though
I'll stick to my mariwana
Underrated comment AF
Lol
Lmfao
Me 2
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1988: "Some fields of study have not yet existed, I can only imagine how advanced we will be in 30 years from now"
2019: "I am majoring to become a Dragon fish expert"
Hitado Dota I think you sound even less intelligent than him from how you use your grammar
@@kenji9445 what???
We just proved their point, we discovered a new field for fish! 😂
Lmao she’s a journalist and writes about other things as well, I also laughed when I saw they way they credited her
I went to a local pet store in my area where they also sell regular juvenile silver arowanas for around P1,200 or $25 each. I noticed that in a separate tank, there is a single arowana which looks almost the same but if you look closer, it radiates golden streaks. I was told it’s a Golden arowana that costs P9,000 or around $180. I badly want it!!!!
Very good price . I had one about 15 years ago paid $200 for it
Me who has tons of these in a nearby lake:
*s t o n k s*
Vince Dreemurr yup S T O N K S
As an AFRICAN, I completely understand this underrated statement 😂😂😂
S T O N K S
StOnKs
Welp the color quality of the fish does have to come to the standards first to have a high price. I've seen many low quality arowanas selling around less than 100 dollars.
I live in Malaysia and bout 30 years ago, there’s a fish shop near my school. The shop had a 5 feet long fish which has metallic rainbow color scales and tail. Me and my friend were so fascinated by it and sneaked to the shop after school to watch it swam. It’s so pretty, looks like arowana but have no idea what fish it was. I’ve never seen anything like that till now
It's called 'ikan Laga' if I got it right.
Aripaima or snakehead
@@lanloca7687 thanks both. Now I have some names that I can Google for
@@christ2ce so which one is it? You can’t just leave us in suspense.
@@DSBP1 Lol... None. Both name given above doesn't look like it. It has metallic scales and when it swam around, the scales just look like rainbow color.
Now all of this makes sense after 20 years back when my parents traded me with one
*oh*
Are u ok?
😨
You smoking arowana?
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Nah, I'm smoking the "weed" that it swims around in the pond! 🤗
🤣🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😅😆
Of course in Califor n I a
Lets get back to the 1,800,000 Koi Fish 😋
Yup yup
NANI???
The Koi Partner all of my friends who I tell about my koi lol
That was a tuna that was auctioned off, not koi and definitely not for a pet.
kickyouinhalf Maybe you should watch the latest video of business insider about Koi ;)
They're not that expensive for an albino white one, it only costs around 150-300 bucks. The prices go up for a red arowana (up to 70K) or a golden arowana (up to 300K). But they're extremely hard to take care of, you usually need a very big fish tank for just one arowana, their body is usually long so a big fish tank is needed for them to swim freely. Sometimes, they can get really aggressive also and they tend to jump off the water surface.
They mistaken it. It was a platinum arowana. Albino are relatively cheap.
I don’t think you know who Emily Voigt is. She spent years with some of the top ichthyologists in the world in pursuit of this fish. She didn’t mistake the price.
Well here in my country the red chili cost around 2k to 3k USD. Expensive but not 70k. Hmmmmmmm makes me wanna sell it in the US 😂
A fish worth $300,000...... I’m pretty sure I’m not worth that much as a slave.
you nailed it bro bravo!!!
when they are baby's thay cost 300 dollars for one fish.
Because you are not albino maybe 🤣
With the abundant of humans I'm sure people are worth more as parts then a whole lol
You're not
When you don't have any money, everything is expensive not just Dragon Fish
Ramen noodles
Yeah so true.
Imagine seeing someone in an alley giving another person a fish like it's a drug.
People don’t call them dragon fish. They call them Arawana. Plus it’s not a albino that sells for 300k, it’s the platinum cause at any pet store a albino cost $200
Azim Ninja asian people does call them dragon fish
@@greenbean1169 I won't trust what your saying as fact. You can't even have basic Grammer in a 3rd grade level sentence
So this is all false
@@comeonmanagain3313 we *do* call them dragon fish
@@toantruonghuu2833 no we don't
"I can't name my pokemon what I want because the name I chose is too long!"
"Oh, what did you wanna name it?"
*"Emerald Violet Fusion Super Red!"*
No one calls arowana dragon fish
It's called dragon fish in Chinese
It is also called dragon fish in Vietnamese
In Malaysia "dragon fish" or "ikan naga" refers to arapaima.
The local name for arowana is kelisa and it's use interchangeably.
Yea dragon fish is different from arowana
Yes there are
We don't say dragon fish in English lol. Just arowana. And only some are expensive
"some" wadduyumean
I speak english and I call it dragon fish
Yeah i live in indonesia and regular arowana only cost 400$
@@pluggothesluggo5509 most coat between 300 and 600 dollars, the really expensive ones are usually the ones that won a competition or the offspring of a winner
@@mikechrist9699 what ?!?! in north africa , silver arowanas cost 12$
When a fish is a celeb and you're not
Why Dragon Fish Are So Expensive? because the Chinese says so. LOL
Lauden Clear you don’t need to be racist.
@@ancient8221 💀
@@ancient8221 bruh how
yuhyun kim you should read it Again 😂
Why koi fish are expensive because the japanese said soo
Asian Arowana is different South American Arowana. You also showed an Australian Arowana. Your research is insufficient that's why the presentation is also inaccurate.
NiX aKi I saw that too
Doesn't really matter anyway ... all i wanna know is how does it taste?
NiX aKi im just done setting my tank up and I’m buying a jardini soon lol 😂 this video is incorrect in so many ways
Ahahaha so damn true!. Thats what happens when u get non fish people to talk about fish.
good on you mate
For any of you living near the Amazon River, there's a Silver Arowana. It's quite a nice fish too.
And I think this version is LEGAL to own in the U.S.
"asian marijuana"
Yes, thank you! That's what I kept hearing too!
And at these prices, that fish better come with its own bong.
@@maxcovfefe maybe the fish itself is a bong
😂🤣👍
Just saying I'd smoke it😂
THATS WHAT I THOUGHT!!😂😂😂
I’ve never heard Arowana called Dragon Fish.
Because in Chinese language it's called Dragon Fish.
Like word by word. Dragon 龙 fish 鱼。
Not the one that leap over the the dragon gate though.
It's does in south east asia
Asian arowana (dragonfish) is a variety of the arowana species. All dragonfishes are arowanas but not all arowanas are dragonfishes
you guys missed the joke
I'm pretty sure that the one that was sell for $300,000 was not an albino but a Platinum witch is more rare than an albino
Local fish store has 2 platinums for 300 each...
@@christopherodle14 yes I saw a two headed platinum one for 50.000
@@christopherodle14 Yeah.......no, they are silvers
Christopher Odle those are silver arowana not Asian arowana
@@christopherodle14 definitely not platinums. Platinums are very rare silvers and are very expensive
This is the only fish I know that perpetually looks like a sadface emoji trying to kiss you.
Marc Shanahan yeah the trapdoor style mouth makes them look grumpy all the time, lol. Kind of like bettas.
*Hotel server* : what fish fry you want to order sir ?
*BILL GATES* : YES
Dragon fish is pretty tasty
Asian arowana pliss and make sure the red one
@@woowwoow6543 what you mean
@@sssbznzn for Asian arowana, more red the colour more high the price
@@woowwoow6543 oh if that fish is more red colour it is more costly ? Oh ok but millionaires don't worry for miney
"so what you in for"
"I tried to get a fish into the U.S."
I used to have a few. They are scared of the color Red. My brother frightened one and it jumped out of the fish tank, happened to jump out of the window, and fell 10 levels to its tragic death.
Mind Data Intelligence 👏👏👏
Mind Data Intelligence how and why are they afraid of red ? But in Chinese myths , dragons that come to attack and eat humans on every Chinese New Year are afraid of loud sounds and are afraid of red . So ..... is this a coincidence? Or is this a fish version of a dragon ....
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That never happened
Samantha Leow it’s not dragons it’s a Monster
Samantha Leow Dragons are considered prosperity,good luck in Chinese mythology.
The creature you stated is the Chinese Monster nian(年）which was repelled by the colour red and loud noises
Imagine going through training to be a security guard, just to guard a fish worth more than you make in a year
was wonder why it was so expensive until i heard the word "endangered"
When he said we are talking murders and midnight fish snapping I laughed so hard lololol.
My family had one, it lived for about 12 years, when my dad bought it, it was the size of a finger and in its final years, it was giant.
I had one too. I was on junior high. I can't understand why my dad's collagues asking me to sell Vegeta (my dragon fish) in riddicilous high price (I was an idiot, I thought it'd just a fish)
I had no idea, I used to see them now and then, small ones, at the pet store here in Canada in the ‘90’s. I wonder if they are still around?
I think the problem back then was you needed a huge tank because they grew fairly fast. That’s why I never got one.
You didn’t mention that there are other types of arowana that are legal to keep in the US. The most common and cheapest is the silver arowana, which has a much more serpentine body type (some were shown in the video) and go for about $90 as juveniles. The extra white ones are called platinum and are much more valuable, like the one that sold for 300k. I’ve been into arowanas for a few years but I don’t have the space for a 500 gallon tank yet, sadly. I’ll get there.
I wish you good luck in getting a proper tank for the little dragons
I bought a baby Golden arowana back in 2007 for 1200 bucks,now its almost as tall as me and countless people offered me 100,000 for the fish which is way more than my yearly income.But i wont sell him as he knows me very well and actually communicates with me very nicely and I love him 🙃🙃🙃😁
0:42 that's my neighbour lmao poking the aquarium
😂
and my friend’s dad owns one, and one time my friend was threatening her dad by saying she will fry that fish and eat it if he wouldn’t let her go for a vacation to macau.
So basically because one hairless ape said to another hairless ape, “this fish is cool now”.
i remember arowana fishes becoming super popular in the early 2000s, and a classmate, their family kept arowanas AND gigantic arapaima. They lost the arapaimas when a typhoon flooded their area, most likely they got washed out from their pond down to the river nearby.
Thats horrible
Usually they're not that expensive tho only the very rare ones. they're usually in the hundreds of dollars
Very true only the top quality fetch those price
600USD is still expensive to me for a fish, I rather spend that much for a dozen Games
I don’t know it’s very expensive to own an Asian marijuana in Canada I mean if you want to go to panda cross back probably run you a few grand
@@johnappice4619............. What...?
*when you have a pond full of these fish*
S T O N K S
Black market: it's free real estate
lol if people found out your house would be stormed
When u can breed the fish
E V E N M O R E S T O N K S
Who thought a eating fish will cost for thousand dollars one day😂
Stuegeon and its caviar is a good example
Or lobsters and scallops
Nowaddays, Capybaras can reach a pretty high price as exotic pets
In my childhood se used to hunt them with an air rifle and make empanadas
I watched a documentary from Korea or the US (I am not sure), but there were villagers who would work really hard to catch a single Arowana to sell as food. One really big Arowana can bring enough money to feed the family for months because it was a luxury food. However, those Arowanas that they catch were big as a small child and beautiful.
In the Philippines, the Arowana is lowkey considered a status symbol at least to the people interested in fish keeping. It's considered good luck for both business establishment and wealthy homes.
There was a fish seller in my city . He was famous and was earning well . He had this fish shown above . He used to believe it used to bring luck for his business . He kept it in his shop but one time they were painting the shop and the tank burst .The fish died and so did the business after that .
i believe this....vry relatable to stories i heard in my country Malaysia
The one boomer who is now immortal because he use to fillet and eat them for dinner: 👁👄👁
3:56 "If you have an itch for a dragon like pet, go for something safer" Its legal in my country sooo...
Answer-No reason they are expensive for no reason.
Asian arowana are expensive because they're on the endangered species list. Other types of arowana are not that expensive however and are pretty easy to obtain.
high demand and low supply its due to the chinese believing it would bring good luck to them they also are endangered in conclusion its due to high demand low supply
@@hiiguys4773 No reason, expensive for no reason....I agree still.
The answer to most of this videos is Chinese people
@@ZachBroughton humans caused them to be endangered. By gluttonously hogging them down and not letting them replenish
They have a Silver Arrowana at PetSmart for 90$ from Brazil
Silver arowana are very common and are from the Amazon River. They're not danger and out of all the arowana are one of the least beautiful and cheapest going for $20-$50 a baaby.
@Joe Try jardini arowana, they look exactly like the Asian arowana, but it mouth is alittle bit different then the Asian arowana.
@@GottaGoFastr hence the cosmetic surgery market! Lol.
@@souathao55 they go down to 12$ where i live
silver here cost only about $10 baby and super red is $400 and RTG with certificate is $200.
"That's an amazing Lamborghini, not to mention your $2M house, what do you do for a living?"
"I sell fish"
That's because they cost a lot of money
duhh
"And thts how the bearded dragon started going endangered".
That woman literally woke up one day and said: I'm gonna be a Dragon Fish Expert
In borneo, before we knew its price, we ate it whenever we found it
My local pet store has these big aquariums instead of a table.. And they have this fish in it. Never knew that it was this rare..
The video: this fish is really expensive
My grandpa: HAVE THREE BIG DRAGON FISH.
So that's why they're worth so many bells in Animal Crossing!
True story. I worked in a petland discount back when I was a teen and they had a little one on sale for 80 bucks at the time. Someone comes in to pays for it and when I go to get it for them I did not know the fish jump and when I opened up the top of the tank the fish jumped to his death. The poor fish hit the floor and was dead. We actually had to save the body.
Was that the only one left?
I worked at an aquarium store that had an Australian arowana (legal in the USA). She was big, shiny, and Mean As Hell. People would walk into the store and offer hundreds of dollars for her, though she had a very clear sign on her aquarium that she wasn’t for sale.
What was most fascinating to me was how very aware she was of the world around her. She was half-blind so she’d always turn her body so she could watch patrons with her good eye. There was something very intimidating about her. Like she was simultaneously challenging and judging you.
I can honestly see why they’re considered a macho sort of thing to own. Their countenance is more intense than a shark’s.
Good to know they got a “dragon fish expert” 😂 it’s called an Arowana
Do you gave stupid
Emily Voigt is a very talented author and I would definitely recommend The Dragon Behind the Glass. It is an amazing book and she did a very job of telling a truly captivating story just about a fish.
I thought it was very good too.
I could imagine a robber mistakenly braking in into these please thinking it was like a bank only to be confused by all “worthless” fish
looks like I'm gonna sell my Arowana
btw I only got it for like $4
I live here in the Philippines
Saan pre?
Looks like you'll only be getting $4.50 then 🤣🤣
it will be probably silver arowana its damn cheap
In Asia IT’S DIRT CHEAP I lived near a place with a bunch in a nearby river
thats not arowana, what you have is a tadpole
I got a pet tuna. 😂
No you don't
@@cooliipie You must be fun at parties
Tuna are hundreds of pounds and can grow to the size of your bed, so no you don't
*_Weird flex but ok_*
Same I put mine in a can
What are you in for? " i caught the wrong fish"
He forgot to mention that only the Silver and Jardini Arowana are allowed in the US.
"How many cars do you have? "
"Nah, I keep fish..!!"
me: buys 40000$ fish
my mom: FISH IS ON THE DISH
Next video "The leader of arowana" how this guy makes millions smuggling fish from asia to us by plane.
This actually makes me very sad as I see them sold at fish shops in the U.K. I never knew they where endangered I’ll spread the message!
Before you do i suggest you research and ask real fish hobbyists first. Not all are endangered especially if the arowanas in the store are bred and not wild caught.
Are you aware of supply and demand? It can help counter endangerment. Look it up, Karen.
Karen .they are not endangered. Western media always wants to stop asians from doing business .
I used to own 2 black arawanas that I bought as juveniles in the mid 90s for $40 a piece and they were legal.
Tom Nook isn't paying me enough for the ones I catch
The Asian Arowana is not endangered nor is the law banning its sale and distribution in the United States appropriate. This fish is legal to own and bred at ornamental fish farms in just about every country, including Canada with the exception of the United States still considering them endangered. A law that hasn’t been updated or reviewed since the late 80s. Thanks PETA. With almost every fish being bought and sold, bred at farms specifically in business for the pet trade, their is no impact on this fishes habitat or its wild numbers. In fact, 100% of hobbyists that buy these fish, prefer the more desirable colored ones mentioned in this video. With most wild Asian Arowana being dull or generic in color. Nobody wastes their time taking them from the wild. In that case, they might as well buy either a Silver or Jardini Arowana. Both extremely beautiful fish that look almost identical to the Asian Arowana as far as body shape. The fact that this fish is illegal in the United States and people have gone to jail for distributing them is just plain stupid when you can simply cross the border into neighboring Canada and get your hands on just about any variety of Arowana you can afford. It makes the US laws look silly. Just my two cents. By the way, I hate when non hobbyists make videos about aquarium fish or the hobby in general. These videos make me cringe. The lack of factual information and exploited common knowledge is hilarious.
Jacob's Aquarium It's all about having the corect permit.
PETA Is not the organization that lists an animal as endangered. PETA is a joke. That is IUCN's job. Then there's CITES which is a convention between governments to regulate wildlife trade to protect wild populations. These organizations were formed to protect flora and fauna worldwide. These orgs are run by scientists (experts in flora and fauna) ~ the real experts. The Asian Arowana listed as ENDANGERED under the IUCN Red List. It is also listed in CITES apppendix I which makes it illegal to catch asian aros in the wild and use them for trade, but farm raised individuals are listed under CITES II which makes them ok to trade albeit proper permits are needed for breeding and selling, also depends on each country's laws. Asian Arowana IUCN Red List status: www.iucnredlist.org/species/20034/9137739 / CITES listing: www.cites.org/eng/gallery/species/fish/golden_arowana.html
Asian Arowana are 100%, absolutely illegal in the US. They are on the list of endangered/at threat species. Other types of arowana are not though and can commonly be purchased through normal means.
i think its because climate or weather that not suitable with Asian Arowana since it live only in Asia. I have one MGBB (Malaysian Golden Blue Base) arowana and its not endangered species if u mentioning about ASIAN AROWANA.
“What do you do for a job?” “oh I guard fish”
Sounds about as reasonable as bitcoin
I'm dead😂
the number of mouths that fish can feed...
Jesus did a miracle feeding 5000 w/ bread & fish.
This fish can do a miracle for 5000 too!! 😃♥️🌿🐳😇
Why does everyone hate on Bitcoin when they have no knowledge or experience of it?
@@sirgerald6846 it's how the NPC brain works
Look at the butt hurt bitcoin bros going for zero
My cousin had arowana before. Didn't knew it cost thousands of dollar.
Noah Sebastian Only certain species and high quality ones ... you can get a silver arowana for as low as $50 , sometimes even cheaper
@@tanariondancy2892 still worth money
motiwor rahman never said it wasn’t 👌
@@tanariondancy2892 okay..
Its like a hobby to us keeping an Arowana and watch carefully how its grow on colours. We also have competition and these fish are the pageant🤣 Need more work to get more results. There are peoples tanning them for 4-6 months and give them centipedes.
1st Date:
What do you do?
I'm a cosmetic surgeon.
Oh, what's your specialty?
Fish.
What?!?
*when you realize some Asian fish is more expensive then you*
You can get the fish way more cheaper in Malaysia 👌🏻
Yeaaaa
My dad had one of those chili red, given to him by a friend. He had to donate it to a local museum because it had gotten too big and he didn't have money to get a bigger tank.
should have sell it then buy a bigger tank
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Makes a video about Asian arowana forgets to mention the ones that are cheaper costing a few hundred or less than a hundred because they must all be as much as a car right?
Calling mum on the phone ☎️
me: mum, please cook fish tonite.
Mum: fish? What fish?!
Me: huh?! Any fish mum!
Coming home looking at my cooked dragon fish.
People have gone to jail for smuggling bearded dragons
Did she just say the fish will jump out of the tank to save their owner??
its a myth where the fish would kill itself to protect any accidents or harm befalling the owner. theyre stories where owners miraculously survives a car crash only to come home to find their arowana dead.
Asian myth. There's also this myth that aros will trade lives with their owners - dying instead of the owner
Insider: "this fish can cost up to $70k"
Me: *just done eating at a restaurant in SEA with an arowana aquarium* im standing beside a fortune!!!
So exotic carp?
@conan263 What kind of sophistry the fengshui expert say that arwana do but koi can't?
* Exotic CRAP
conan263 it's Arowana. Nobody calls it the dragon fish.
conan263 but I am Asian. Maybe is it because in the US where I live, nobody calls it a dragon fish?
These are not in the same family as carp.
You thinking of Koi?
He said dragon fish way too many tines in this video
lmao yea it triggered me , iwas like GODDAMIT IT'S AROWANA
hatim soudani yea it was triggering me
Jordan Vann every time they do, I keep thinking of my dragon goby lol
We also call this Arowana and is so much special to be given as a gift, clearly not as special as to own one. It is believed that an Arowana can live so long and the moment it dies, it means that it saved a family member from death. Before in my family, we were gifted two, all from my Dad's Chinese clients (he's a lawyer), one gold and one silver or which we call 'Albino'.. the Albino almost lived to 10 years... And I must say, they are beautiful magical creatures... and we usually keep them in big, and I mean big aquariums and are fed with chicken or beef meat.
Indonesian here
The asian arwana used to be so common we'd usually have them as food, like any other fish.
EDIT: My uncle currently has one as a pet. Its only expensive because people say so.
I think the wild still has plenty of them, just maybe not with those striking colors that would make hunting harder and getting hunt easier
it's 80 dollars in my local fish store. forget it I was talking about the silver arowana
2019: "Why dragon fish are so expensive?"
2099: "Why humans are so expensive?"