Any hobbyists who visit Hong Kong should not miss the Fish Street. In the busy Monkok retail district of Hong Kong, there is a street with over 50 fish stores packed within two blocks. The stores are small, but tend to be specialized. There are no big one stop super stores as in US. Specialized stores may sell only one type of fish like Discus, Goldfish, Flowerhorns, Angels, Arrowanas, marine, Odd Balls, Live Bearers, aquatic plants, or only fish tanks, equipment, or ornaments. The non-specialized stores typically sell bread and butter fish with a unique way of prebagging fish and hanging outside. You pick the bags, pay and go as if picking up magazine from a newstand. Even aquatic plants are laid outside and kept moist. I can understand why because during weekends, the fish stores are packed with people picking their favorite fish and no time is waste in netting fish.
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That's cool, thanks for sharing I'd love to visit one day.
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I spent two days in that street.
Allmost gave me a fevre, not being able to buy anything to take with me on the plane.
I enetered every shop, tens of them,mmore than once. Unforgettable experience.
Allmost gave me a fevre, not being able to buy anything to take with me on the plane.
I enetered every shop, tens of them,mmore than once. Unforgettable experience.
Except for angels, discus, common Mbuna and peacocks, there aren't many species African cichlids for sale, and species CA/SA are even harder to find. But Flowerhorns and Blood parrots are common and some of the high grade FH sells for hundreds to thousand $. Of course, high price fish are not prebagged as the turn over rate is slow. Many tanks are packed with fish as if there are more fish than water. But the fish look healthy so there must be massive water change daily. Some of the best tanks I've seen are Nature Aquairum, apparently there is a lot of TLC gooming by store owners.
I hit that place up about once a month. At street level there are not much specialty shops, but when you look carefully there are many more specialized shops upstairs in the same buildings. I have good luck finding almost any type of fish there. It pays to have someone with you who can read Chinese as some of the smaller specialty shops have no English signage.