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RE: Travel report
Hi Nonn,
Great to hear from you again. Interesting to hear that the Malaysians are
farming killifish. As we have seen the number of male bettas sold here in
the US vs. females, I can understand why the store only carries Males. As my
friend keeps reminding me "Most people do not breed fish." 90% of our hobby
is composed of people with one fish tank usually about 10 gal. in which they
keep several species. People on this list are way off the main stream of the
hobby. This is not a bad thing. But if you are a pet shop and your
clientele do not breed killifish what are you supposed to do with all of the
females? Also if you do not ship females you are less likely to spawn your
own competition.
It sounds like breathable bags are not yet perfected, I suppose that is why
most wholesalers do not use them.
Best regards,
-RJ-
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-killietalk at aka_org [mailto:owner-killietalk at aka_org]On
Behalf Of Nonn Panitvong
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 12:42 PM
To: killietalk at aka_org
Subject: Travel report
Hello,
I'm back here in Thailand already. 90% of the fish made it here fine.
Thank you for everyone suggestion. Here is what I learn from this trip:
- Breather bags do leak. about 5% of them will leak in the first 5
minutes, 3% after about an hour and 2% will leak after several hours. If
you plan to use them, pack you fish and lay all the bags on newspapers for
at least an hour or so, then look for the wet spot(s) on the newspaper and
replace the bags.
I didn't have time to do this with those fish I pack in the last fews hours,
which resulted in a lot of leaked bags on top part of the cooler. This is
how I lost my fish.
- When the bag on the top part leak, water will go down to the bottom part.
Breather bags will not breath through the water so if the bottom of the
cooler is flooded the fish on the bottom will die too. Leave the water hole
at the bottom of you cooler open and make sure that nothing is blocking it.
You might be better of having a piece of yarn that you lay down across the
bottom of the cooler and stick the end out of the hole to lead the water out
or better yet elevated bottom of your cooler by a piece of foam or lighting
figure egg crate.
-You can double bagged the breather bag. Infact, many fish should be save
had I have time to double every bags.
-It will take you 2 days to pack several hundreds fish in individual bag
with new water and this will kill your back.
-I didn't lost any fish that the bags didn't leak nor being flooded.
Thanks to Karl, Eric, Darryl, and Larry who help me filled up my last minute
wish list.
I'm still trying to settle in, sorry, that I havn't reply many of the
e-mails.
BTW, apart from Aplocheilus panchax, I saw all males N. palmquisti, N.
foerchi, N. guentheri, N. rubripinnis, Fd. gardneri, and Crom. bitaeniatum
about 30 of each in our local fish store today. The fish were badly miss
labeled. It took me a while to convince the owner of the store that I know
what I'm talking about and that his fish were miss labeled. Oh
well.......not that I'm an expert but the GAR were not Crom. loenberggii for
darn sure. We just started but we are getting there. ;-) The fish were
said to be imported from "Killifish farm" in Malasia. I spent half of my
day in that store talking to the owner. He agreed to order me some new fish
with FEMALES.
Regards,
Nonn Panitvong
http://www.panitvong.com
http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/thaikilli
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