Richard Posted January 28, 2003 Report Share Posted January 28, 2003 Well... I am currently on holiday in Borneo at the moment... went to a LFS yesterday... they have quite a lot of fish there... cheap too... they also have freshwater lobsters and prawns... i was really tempted to buy a whole lot of fish... when i remembered i was only on holiday... and i dont have a tank to put the fish in anyway... There was this tank with 3 huge fish... an oscar, what looked like a pacu (about 2 feet) and one of those cichlids ( i dunno which one...i am not good with cichlids...it is the blue one with stripes....is it a frontosa or something?) They also had heaps of silver arowana's, about 4 tanks full... each tank has about 20 arowana's... some tanks are 5 inch ones... some with 7 inch ones... small ones selling for about nzd20, bigger ones about nzd35... you could buy 7 and put them in a community tank here for not a lot of money... They also have really beautiful goldfish.... really big and round... and with funny growth on the heads.... very cheap... and there are also japanese koi... parrot fish... there was one really beautiful discus... really bright colours.... there are a lot more shops around the area i wanna visit... just going around the area i live in... i have seen 5 shops... and i have only been to one... so i might go looking again tomorrow.... might buy some fish feed... maybe even a filter pump... they are really cheap here... i will keep u guys updated... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted January 28, 2003 Report Share Posted January 28, 2003 Lucky you! Just don't be tempted to try sneaking any fish back into NZ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted January 28, 2003 Report Share Posted January 28, 2003 Honest, officer, that's a bottle of borneo wine. It's like tequila except it has a live fish in the bottom insteadof a dead worm! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajbroome Posted January 28, 2003 Report Share Posted January 28, 2003 Richard said... >I am currently on holiday in Borneo at the moment... What part? I grow lots of plants from that area... Andrew. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted January 29, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2003 I am in Sarawak (East Malaysia)... the city's name is Kuching... it is at the northwestern tip of the borneo island... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajbroome Posted January 29, 2003 Report Share Posted January 29, 2003 Richard said... > I am in Sarawak (East Malaysia)... the city's name > is Kuching... it is at the northwestern tip of the borneo > island... Ah, yes, I know it. Been meaning to go there myself one day. I met the guy who runs this place: http://www.malesiana.tropicals.com.my/ when I was in the US in 2000. Have bought some stuff from them since then. Seems like an interesting place to visit. Andrew. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howard Norfolk Posted February 1, 2003 Report Share Posted February 1, 2003 If you're in Borneo, you may be interested to read: http://aquarticles.com/articles/travel/ ... orneo.html The author, Earle Shim, was brought up there and visits often from his new home in Canada. The article describes the aquatic environment in Borneo and the wide variety of fish to be found there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted February 1, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2003 interesting how he could hand carry fish onto the plane to Canada... don't they have any restrictions? I assume this is not possible in NZ as you need to have a permit to bring fish in??? Am I correct? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howard Norfolk Posted February 1, 2003 Report Share Posted February 1, 2003 In Canada we have no restrictions on importing aquarium fish because not many let free in the wild would survive a -40f cold snap! (With one exception. see: http://aquarticles.com/articles/travel/ ... _fish.html ). A popular thing to do is go to the Amazon and bring back wild caught fish, and of course we can bring fish across the US border. We do have a few recent problems with introduced fish - Atlantic salmon escaping from fish farms on the Pacific coast, Russian snails let free from ships' ballast in the Great Lakes, and so on, but aquarium fish haven't caused a problem. New Zealand has complicated quarantine regs. that I wrote about in my article about Gordon McKay in the People section of Aquarticles, and Bermuda has tough regs. that Craig Morfitt wrote about in the Travel section. Howard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted February 1, 2003 Report Share Posted February 1, 2003 Richard, no-one in NZ is allowed to import fish (or any animals) without a quarantine licence. If you want a particular fish you have to ask an importer to get it for you. This might get a bit easier as there a more import facilities now so more competition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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