Hong Kong
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I've heard a great deal about it and saw a number of pictures over the years but I have never been there, Asia is not my thing. 
I went to Guanghou China and they had a fish mall there. The mall was HUGE and it consisted of shops with 200 gallon tanks and ponds. The tanks were usually filled with either discus, flowerhorns, or arowana's, and of coarse the ponds with koi. They were very into aquascaping and you could tell that while practicing bad habbits like the HK method you are talking about, they were still taken care of with water changes and constant attention. When you got to the back side of the mall there were people on the ground with plastic tubs. Most were shallow and maybe held 2 gallons of "ammonia". I saw some of the oddball fish in there I will probably never see again, catfish, loaches, characins, and some others. It seems that the HK style tanks were started in HK because of the lack of understanding how it worked with the simpler shops. I base this simply on the thought that,... well It doesn't work with all fish and you must take the time to maintain an overly crowded tank which not everyone had grasped. It will come to them.... eventually.
Aquaria China 2004
What a sight GZ China was. Great food very friendly people. I felt far enough from home to call it a vacation but close enough I could eat at McDonalds. Aquaria China started off with a bang. Asian counters stretched from one end of the auditorium to the next. In the back there was a plethora of show tanks. Arowana's I've never seen before and more Koi I never want to see again. Wish I would have taken some more pictures but I was too excited and forgot the camera on every day..... not on purpose I assure you. There was a downfall to all of this excitement in that at day # 4 (#6 for the fish) I witnessed a vast majority of fish die. You could literally watch a discus in a tank slowly fade from aggressive and determined into seclusion, losing it's prestigious colors, then becoming a remnant of what was once a prize winning adult. Next year I hope to see better conditions for the fish but all in all you can bet your buttons I'll be there.
Aquaria China 2004
What a sight GZ China was. Great food very friendly people. I felt far enough from home to call it a vacation but close enough I could eat at McDonalds. Aquaria China started off with a bang. Asian counters stretched from one end of the auditorium to the next. In the back there was a plethora of show tanks. Arowana's I've never seen before and more Koi I never want to see again. Wish I would have taken some more pictures but I was too excited and forgot the camera on every day..... not on purpose I assure you. There was a downfall to all of this excitement in that at day # 4 (#6 for the fish) I witnessed a vast majority of fish die. You could literally watch a discus in a tank slowly fade from aggressive and determined into seclusion, losing it's prestigious colors, then becoming a remnant of what was once a prize winning adult. Next year I hope to see better conditions for the fish but all in all you can bet your buttons I'll be there.