Hello,
I got my halfbeaks from two places. It's actually mentioned on my
web page describing my aquarium, if you want to see some more pictures. There's some on that page, and some nice ones on the
page about the plants I used. There's a larger picture on my fish
photography page as well.
Watching halfbeaks swim over a stand of vallis is really cool, and you can easily imagine you're snorkelling across a seagrass meadow in some tropical lagoon.
But to cut a long story short, I got the first batch from Maidenhead aquatics in Wembley and the second batch (which are the ones that are
Nomorhamphus ebrardtii, from Hertfordshire Fisheries in How Wood, not far from St. Albans. This latter place was out of them when I stopped by about 3 weeks ago.
If you live in the UK, a very useful resource is
Tropical Fish Finder. You can search for specific fish, and then find out which stores have it in stock. It only includes stores that are working with the site, so there's a lot of stores that are missing (for example the whole Maidenhead Aquatics chain) but it does include some of the really good places like Wildwoods and Wholesale Tropicals. Both of these, apparently, have
Nomorhamphus liemi liemi in stock.
I'm really impressed by halfbeaks, and highly recommend them... they aren't your grandmother's livebearers! They're seriously cool fish.
Cheers,
Neale