Hong Kong's Goldfish Street

[Keri]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3a34ubyvnU I just found this thread while looking up goldfish street on youtube...do they really keep the fish in sealed bags on racks like that?? don't they have a lot of losses??? (I don't know if this is actually the right goldfish street)

[dsaundry]

Nice link Keri...I wonder what their loss rate is too.

cya when you get back VFX. Have a great trip and keep us posted.

[Keri]

(hope I was allowed to post that)

Have fun on your trip, it looks like a pretty crazy place!

[dsaundry]

Yes you can post that..great stuff!!!

[VFX]

Wow Keri, thanks for the link! Yep, that's Goldfish Street alright!

Some things out there just don't seem ethical!

I saw one store sell 2 sea horses to a young kid (about 12 yrs old I'd guess) & his mother. They sold him the seahorses, a small plastic tank (maybe 3 or 4 gallons?), a sachet of sea salt mix & a few bags of live mysis. I'd be surprised if they lasted more than a few days

I asked about the fish-in-bags thing and apparently they sell their livestock so fast that most don't hang around (excuse the pun!) for more than a day or so.

They only seem to keep the really expensive stuff in the display tanks. Thing like speciality goldfish, arowana's & some SW stuff.

I think there was only 2 or 3 SW places last time I was there.

I can still picture that Emperor Angel about 7 or 8 inches long stuffed into a bag barely 10 inches wide... I wanted to take him home there & then!

Anyways, I'll keep you posted!

See you when I get back Darryl.

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[Keri]

crazy, crazy, well I'm glad to hear they don't stick around for long at least. I saw another video with a flower market, I think it may be in the same area, such beautiful plants and flowers, I don't know if I could go and not take anything back either!!

[VFX]

Originally Posted by Keri

crazy, crazy, well I'm glad to hear it doesn't stick around for long at least. I saw another video with a flower market, I think it may be in the same area, such beautiful plants and flowers, I don't know if I could go and not take anything back either!!

There's a crazy flower market near to Goldfish street around Chinese New Year.

Some amazing sights for sure!

If you ever get the chance to go out there during Chinese New Year do it! (normally end of Jan/beginning Feb).

It's bigger than Christmas & New Years put together into a week long party

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[Evil Guppy]

Hi Everyone,

Here are some pics from when I visited there in 2004. Hopefully these links work... if not i'll repost them.

From what I saw when I was there, the Marine fish were kept in tanks and many of the freshwater/tropicals were kept in bags.

[targa81]

Pretty cool... They must have lots of losses though although I suppose if you start thinking about how many sea creatures die in the procurement process the ethics of our hobby might start to be questioned. If you could bring me back a clown trigger though VFX I'd be happy to hold onto some livestock for you until your tank is ready!

[sexyshrimp]

When I visited HK this past summer, I'd go there at around 10 in the morning because I could never sleep in HK for some reason. & There'd be TRUCKLOADS of fish and people would be bagging them here and there and I see people taking the dead ones, and throwing them into piranha tanks or what not or flushing them down the sewer.