A fishy Sunday in Saigon

Most of you know that I travel for work and most of you also know that I am very much into labyrinth fish. Now my travel brings me regularly to Asia and this also happens to be the region where my labyrinth fish come from AND where they are popular with other hobbyists.

Last year around this time I fell for Facebook and I have joined several labyrinth fish related pages. This resulted today in visiting several hobbyists in Saigon or Ho Chi Minh Cith as it is called officially. I had a great time and I will be bringing back the following:
Macropodus spechti
Macropodus opercularis
Trichopsis vittatus (almost 2x as big as the commercial fish!)
Betta smaragdina
Betta imbellis
Betta mahachai
Betta siamorientalis

Here come some pictures of set-ups and fish. We are lucky in Canada to have all the equipment we need....
And guess what they feed here?! Juvenile boraras (mosquito fish)! A bag full costs the equivalent of 10 cents....

Male opercularis
DSC06012 by Biulu, on Flickr

Male spechti
DSC06036 by Biulu, on Flickr

Don't get yourself a beer belly!
DSC05991 by Biulu, on Flickr

DSC05992 by Biulu, on Flickr

Creative solutions
DSC06001 by Biulu, on Flickr

DSC06017 by Biulu, on Flickr

the plank is used to stand on to reach the tanks in the back....
DSC06039 by Biulu, on Flickr

Very very interesting.

But Bororas as feeders??? Such wonderful, hard to get fish here!

I think a tall guy like me would have some trouble with those bottom tanks.

GaryE wrote:Very very interesting.

But Bororas as feeders??? Such wonderful, hard to get fish here!

I think a tall guy like me would have some trouble with those bottom tanks.

I know! I am thinking of bringing some for @Charlie1

Biulu wrote:

GaryE wrote:Very very interesting.

But Bororas as feeders??? Such wonderful, hard to get fish here!

I think a tall guy like me would have some trouble with those bottom tanks.

I know! I am thinking of bringing some for @Charlie1

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I'm with you on the bottom tanks Gary and my last 25 lbs does not help either ha ha fat old guy that I am.

I managed to bring back a bag of borara feeder fish. At least 30 survived the trip.

@Charlie1 if you are coming to the auction in Mtl this Sunday, I'll gladly bring them for you. Or alternatively I can give them to another OVAS member if you can't make it. Just let me know....

Biulu wrote:I managed to bring back a bag of borara feeder fish. At least 30 survived the trip.

@Charlie1 if you are coming to the auction in Mtl this Sunday, I'll gladly bring them for you. Or alternatively I can give them to another OVAS member if you can't make it. Just let me know....

Wow , thank you!
I intend to be there, if i can`t Jody will be there for sure.
Regards

Here is a picture of the feeder fish

DSC06101 by Biulu, on Flickr

Very nice.

Sounds very nice! I love to see how they do their set ups..
I wish I had seen this topic earlier, I have a mosquito rasbora colony that needs more numbers! :O

Cant wait to see more of your trips

l_l_l wrote:Sounds very nice! I love to see how they do their set ups..
I wish I had seen this topic earlier, I have a mosquito rasbora colony that needs more numbers! :O

Maybe next year... Although I haven't seen these feeder fish in the north....

Biulu wrote:Here is a picture of the feeder fish

DSC06101 by Biulu, on Flickr

Words cannot express the deep appreciation the thoughtful & much appreciated gesture by Biulu for donating these fish to me , Thank you again
It was a great to meet up with some of the Canadaquaria members at the Montreal Aquarium Society auction today, awesome day.

You're welcome! I am glad I could up your numbers after several of the brigittae died back in springtime.

They will need some fattening up but they seem healthy.