repto Posted June 12, 2010 Report Share Posted June 12, 2010 here are a few pics I took on a recent 2 day stop over in hongkong.Spent most a day roaming around the mong kok fish and bird markets.Was really interesting and the prices and range of stuff available would make you cry,actually so would the conditions alot of the livestock was kept in!no spca over there!!!I seemed to be too early for the major reptile stores but what i could acertain was they opened later in the afternoons and went on into the evening as the people would call in after work etc?the fish were hardcase and they were busy bagging up stock into small individual bags and pegging them onto big boards out the front where you could pick the one you want.goldfish and koi were jam packed into long shallow tanks by the thousand(literally)There were heaps of different types of baby turtles from red ears @$2 nz to mata matas,reeves,diamond backs,cogwheels,twin hinged box....you name it would have been there somewhere.This all covered 3-4 blocks with shop after shop all the same intermingled with doors that led up dingy ,dark staircases to more shops upstairs.The bird markets were also an eye opener with heaps of live food forsale quite cheap.they had little mesh bags with a handfull of grass and locusts,trays full of writhing superworms??,asian crickets.There was one bloke sitting there and his job was cutting the legs and wings off locusts which were weighed and sold to people for bird food.Can anyone recognise the birds in the pic?looks like a waxeye to me??There were cages jam packed with spice finches forsale which we would never see here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matto Posted June 12, 2010 Report Share Posted June 12, 2010 wow looks like you had a awesome trip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HaNs Posted June 13, 2010 Report Share Posted June 13, 2010 Most shops there open late morning early arvo and stay open quite late. I went to those markets a few years ago, amazing what you can buy there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-town... Posted June 13, 2010 Report Share Posted June 13, 2010 MORE PHOTOS PLEASE :bounce: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ice222 Posted June 14, 2010 Report Share Posted June 14, 2010 Yea I have relatives that live on the street next to a huge fish/pet market so I go have a browse every time I visit them. What I'm most jealous of is that they can get snakes there . Then again not like I can ever keep one even if we had them here, my stepmum's phobic of them and I hear snakes don't fare well NZ even if we could get them. Fascinating just to see fish, reptiles, bugs and other pets you never even heard of though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylefish02 Posted June 23, 2010 Report Share Posted June 23, 2010 The birds are pekin robins i believe quite a common softbill overseas used to be nz and were goin to be imported until stupid maf pulled the plug. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reptilenutt Posted June 23, 2010 Report Share Posted June 23, 2010 still look like waxeyes to me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylefish02 Posted June 23, 2010 Report Share Posted June 23, 2010 well i do not believe they are any species of zosterops pekin robins are widely kept in asia and those look like young pekin robins to me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insect Direct Posted June 23, 2010 Report Share Posted June 23, 2010 i think theyre just green sparrows :lol: nice pics repto, must of been a neat place to visit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted June 23, 2010 Report Share Posted June 23, 2010 The birds are pekin robins i believe quite a common softbill overseas used to be nz and were goin to be imported until stupid maf pulled the plug. yep look like them good little singers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
repto Posted June 23, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2010 nothing at all like the pekin robin I looked up on google?just a plain old waxeye. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted June 23, 2010 Report Share Posted June 23, 2010 young look like a waxeye, no eyering though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
repto Posted June 23, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2010 these had well developed eye ring you can even see it in the pics? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylefish02 Posted July 6, 2010 Report Share Posted July 6, 2010 there just juvenile pekins thats why they have the eyering extremely common throughout asia awesome birds id love to have some i believe aus has them but in very lown numbers another thing aus has but not us Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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