I am a Chinese, in the mainland of China. I have experience on goldfish and tropical fish trading. So happy to find so many ornamental fish lovers here. :lol:

Hi Roy,

Welcome to the New Zealand Fishroom.

Saw you had registered earlier and wondered when you would post.

All fish lovers here... both fresh and marine.. with lots of Goldie keepers.

Hope you enjoy your visits.

Tell us a bit about the hobby over there

Bill.

Thank you, Pegasus!

Sorry for my poor English. It really need me much time to read the posts! Also, to write in English make me headache. I was trying to find if I can type any Chinese here!

I have experience only with freshwater fishes. I would like to know firstly how big is the market of freshwater fish here in NZ.

Hi and welcome Roy. Not as big a market here as in China! Sorry I don't know any Chinese.

Hi Roy and welcome. I think you do very well with your English.....much better than I could do with Chinese :-). Hope you enjoy looking at what everyone has to say and I am sure everyone will be interested to know what type of fish are available in china compared to what we can get here.

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Translation.....welcome, glad to have you with us.

OH, we have so many kinds of fishes in China.

Also some tropical fish are local breeding. Guppies, Gouramies, Angel fishes, Neon Tetra, Barbs, we have even Oscars! Are there any oscars in NZ?

In Beijing, you can find some big Aquarium shops and more popular are the aquarium booths in the flower markets. They have many electronic controled tanks full of water plants or coral reefs with nemo.

Hi again Roy,

I second the above... "No probs with your English"..

Great stuff that you have learned a second language.

Oscars... Yes.. we have lots here, as we most fish species.

The ones you don't "generally" see over here are such fish as Piraha.. Tilapia... and such, plus many fish are restricted like Koi Carp (although many have them).. and our fisheries control board (MAF) are very strict about what is allowed here due to many reasons.. but it all boils down to protecting our waterways and restricting unwanted species into the country.

Certain plants are also on the restricted list.

At the head of te main site you will see a "FNZAS Homepage" title on the right.

Click on this and you will go to another part of the site.

You will find some details of restricted fish.. plus a breeders list... plants and so forth.

Hope that helps, and hope you find lots of interest here

All the best.

Bill (Pegasus NZ)