BethK
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Uk People... Where Do You Get Them?!
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Josiee
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Josiee
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Got one 
I wasn't after a veiltail, but I think he's really pretty in an ethereal kind of way 
http
/cgi.ebay.co.u...e=STRK:MEWNX:IT
I wasn't after a veiltail, but I think he's really pretty in an ethereal kind of way http
/cgi.ebay.co.u...e=STRK:MEWNX:IT
Curiosity101
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Doesn't seem to be working
dipsydoodlenoodle
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I can't see the link either
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Josiee
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Oh, sorry!
Hopefully this one does
http/cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250689825098&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT
Hopefully this one does
http
/cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250689825098&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT
ArnieStinger
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i've used this one before, so i recommend trying to see if you can get what you need
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With ebay the pics should be of the actual fish, with betta's anyway.
Prob best finding smaller LFS's for nice bettas, well smaller ones round here tend to get nice ones in every now and then, guess it depends on whos running it and their suppliers, and i got the two best ones i've seen
pets at home etc, ones ive been in anyway normally stock pretty poor bettas.
Prob best finding smaller LFS's for nice bettas, well smaller ones round here tend to get nice ones in every now and then, guess it depends on whos running it and their suppliers, and i got the two best ones i've seen
pets at home etc, ones ive been in anyway normally stock pretty poor bettas.
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Josiee
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He came today 
betta fish
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He's a beautiful fish, enjoy! 
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Josiee
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So much character as well! Such a sweetie. And am I allowed to recommend sellers on here? He was brilliant. Included a couple of sheets of care information and what temp, food etc he feeds his fish on as well as two Indian Almond Leaves! Was not expecting that. Lovely guy
Will try and get some photos up in the next few days
Will try and get some photos up in the next few days
fluffycabbage
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So much character as well! Such a sweetie. And am I allowed to recommend sellers on here? He was brilliant. Included a couple of sheets of care information and what temp, food etc he feeds his fish on as well as two Indian Almond Leaves! Was not expecting that. Lovely guy
Will try and get some photos up in the next few days
Sounds good!
There are lots of on-line places to find bettas by the dozens. There are specialized betta sites as others have already referred to, there is Aquabid and Ebay who each end up with lots of listings for Betta splendens since they have a good profit margin for the breeders and even the retailers. A search using your favorite search engine for Betta or for Betta splendens will also return more links than you can shake a stick at. If you include UK in the search criteria, it should limit the result to places where you could actually find bettas you would be willing to buy. One of the difficulties in buying fish over the internet is import restrictions imposed by each country.
I live in the US and any shipment of foreign origin fish requires an inspection at the border. That inspection is quite expensive and is only available to licensed importers of fish. The annual license fee to become an importer is prohibitively expensive for a simple hobbyist and the shipment inspection fee is far more than any reasonable person would pay for a few fish. What that ends up meaning is that people become importers, called "trans-shippers", and take in large shipments of foreign fish. The large shipment helps distribute the cost per fish of the inspection. Once the fish are in the country, the trans-shipper rebags the fish and sends them on to a final destination after attaching a handling fee to each bag of fish. In essence, they take the $100+ fee for the inspection, spread it over 20 or 30 individual orders of fish and tack on a fee of their own for being the intermediary. They also charge for each individual package's shipping costs and their own costs of doing the packaging and shipping. Where you end up, as the original buyer is paying your part of the inspection fee, the cost of packaging and shipping your fish from the trans-shipper to your home plus the cost of the fish you won with a bid and the profit for that trans-shipper, the only reason the trans-shipper exists is to make that last bit of profit. This can mean that a fish that you bid $10 to buy has also cost $10 to ship to the trans-shipper, $5 for your part of the inspection fee, another $10 for shipping from the trans-shipper to your home and another $10 profit to the trans-shipper. When you add it all up, the cost of those $10 fish is now about $45 each to receive. There is a reason that local fish are often cheaper to get into your hands than buying them for almost nothing from places like Malaysia. Please consider buying locally no matter the price difference.
I recently paid $45 including shipping for a simple pair of Betta simplex. There was only one supplier to the US who was a US source on the site that I used. There were plenty of Singapore and Malaysia sources with far lower prices but when I examined the actual cost to me of obtaining those fish, I decided to deal locally instead. If I had bought the foreign sourced fish, I would have faced a fairly comparable total cost but that would have just been the beginning of the comparison. Another consideration, at least for me, was the time the fish would spend in transit. The locally sourced fish arrived 2 days after they were placed in the mails and were in good enough condition that they started trying to breed as soon as I had them in my tank. The foreign sourced fish would have spent about that same 2 days, maybe 3 days, being shipped via air mail to the US along with any other orders the seller was trans-shipping. Another day or two would have been involved in the trans-shipper preparing the fish for final shipment to me. Finally, the trans-shipment would have taken about the same 2 days as my shipment took. The fish would have been in transit for over a week instead of 2 days and would have arrived half starved at least a week later and not anywhere near in good enough condition to start breeding rituals in my tanks on day 1.
I live in the US and any shipment of foreign origin fish requires an inspection at the border. That inspection is quite expensive and is only available to licensed importers of fish. The annual license fee to become an importer is prohibitively expensive for a simple hobbyist and the shipment inspection fee is far more than any reasonable person would pay for a few fish. What that ends up meaning is that people become importers, called "trans-shippers", and take in large shipments of foreign fish. The large shipment helps distribute the cost per fish of the inspection. Once the fish are in the country, the trans-shipper rebags the fish and sends them on to a final destination after attaching a handling fee to each bag of fish. In essence, they take the $100+ fee for the inspection, spread it over 20 or 30 individual orders of fish and tack on a fee of their own for being the intermediary. They also charge for each individual package's shipping costs and their own costs of doing the packaging and shipping. Where you end up, as the original buyer is paying your part of the inspection fee, the cost of packaging and shipping your fish from the trans-shipper to your home plus the cost of the fish you won with a bid and the profit for that trans-shipper, the only reason the trans-shipper exists is to make that last bit of profit. This can mean that a fish that you bid $10 to buy has also cost $10 to ship to the trans-shipper, $5 for your part of the inspection fee, another $10 for shipping from the trans-shipper to your home and another $10 profit to the trans-shipper. When you add it all up, the cost of those $10 fish is now about $45 each to receive. There is a reason that local fish are often cheaper to get into your hands than buying them for almost nothing from places like Malaysia. Please consider buying locally no matter the price difference.
I recently paid $45 including shipping for a simple pair of Betta simplex. There was only one supplier to the US who was a US source on the site that I used. There were plenty of Singapore and Malaysia sources with far lower prices but when I examined the actual cost to me of obtaining those fish, I decided to deal locally instead. If I had bought the foreign sourced fish, I would have faced a fairly comparable total cost but that would have just been the beginning of the comparison. Another consideration, at least for me, was the time the fish would spend in transit. The locally sourced fish arrived 2 days after they were placed in the mails and were in good enough condition that they started trying to breed as soon as I had them in my tank. The foreign sourced fish would have spent about that same 2 days, maybe 3 days, being shipped via air mail to the US along with any other orders the seller was trans-shipping. Another day or two would have been involved in the trans-shipper preparing the fish for final shipment to me. Finally, the trans-shipment would have taken about the same 2 days as my shipment took. The fish would have been in transit for over a week instead of 2 days and would have arrived half starved at least a week later and not anywhere near in good enough condition to start breeding rituals in my tanks on day 1.
dipsydoodlenoodle
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Josiee
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Thanks for the informative post OldMan47
I would put pics up but I can't find the charger for my camera! I'm trying to figure out a way of getting them off my blackberry
I would put pics up but I can't find the charger for my camera! I'm trying to figure out a way of getting them off my blackberry
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