Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 8:13 pm Post subject: GOLDFISH MARKETS in HONG KONG

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Hi Guys,

Just come back from a trip to Hong Kong and visited the goldfish markets, this is a whole street of Goldfish, Arros, Discus etc. What the amazing thing is the amount of beautiful orandas and the prices they go for. Some of them are huge with bodies upto 20cm long with huge heads.

One of the pics has all these Red Cap Orandas and they are $4.50nz and on TM they would sell for $250+. If only you could import them...haha. Anyways enjoy and post any comments I will be happy to answer.

Absolutely amazing...

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Ok still having probs, only onme picture showed up?

Wow thanks for sharing, there are some beauty fish, but gee they packed in like sardines in a can

Wow thanks for sharing, there are some beauty fish, but gee they packed in like sardines in a can

Theres places that pack more fish in a small space, saw 2ft fish in a tank that where only cm's longer than the fish.

i would like to quote "Gordan Ramsays" favorite saying "**** Me!"

You get a chance to go into china? It much worse in there

Yes its quite amazing, those big orandas where only 2 years old and cost $60 nz, they were hugggge. Its amazing how they bag up those tropicals and leave them like that all day.

OMG!!!!! any fishy persons dream looks amazing have heard heaps about china and stuff having several "blocks" worth of JUST FISH!!!!

The fish market we saw in Hong Kong (probably the same one as above) was a whole street of just fish.

They also had several streets of craft stuff - shop after shop just selling buttons, bows, ribbons, lace etc

The fish market we saw in Hong Kong (probably the same one as above) was a whole street of just fish.

They also had several streets of craft stuff - shop after shop just selling buttons, bows, ribbons, lace etc

Near Nathan road?

Theres one big market. It even on the local maps!

Yeah that was it. 8)

We also visited the nearby ladies' market, flower market, bird market, electronics market and jade market, to name a few. We stayed just off Nathan Rd opposite the Temple St night markets (our favourite)

They must shift a lot of stock if they are pre-bagged

Yes the Goldfish market fulls up a street in Mongkok, you take the MTR to the Mongkok station then go out exit b2, its easy to find and yes its next to the ladies market. There are probably around 100 goldfish shops on the street and down the alley ways. Truely amazing place, I just wish I could have bought the bloodline back

Two Words: OVERSTOCKED!

Two Words: OVERSTOCKED!

.... GUMP :lol: thats one word, or else you would have hit that realy wide bar down the bottom of the keyboard :lol:

Funny, they are only overstocked when they are for sale...

Eureka

Look at the planted tanks in the Background though!

yea it baffles me on how they keep so many fish in each tank and still have enough oxygen...

heres a question for you experts, i have an oranda and his head growth is covering his guys so he cant really see anymore. I heard you can snip away at the wren? is this true?

Look at the quality of the tank of red cap orandas and work out how many fish were culled to end up with a tank of that quality (considering they would have kept the best ones to be future breeders). I would be surprised if there were that many red cap orandas of that quality in the whole of NZ.

I agree and that was only 1 of many red cap tanks, I was quite in ore

that's not only market we got in CN!!! :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

should of put them in your bag... LOL JK