Ornamental fish market in Tianjin, China

[vss]

Some pictures and videos that I just took in an ornamental fish market in Tianjin during a home trip to China.


first some discus

everything is sold in bags

http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/ww299/vincesun/Tianjin/discbags_.jpg


a huge leopard

http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/ww299/vincesun/Tianjin/leo_.jpg



barless redcovers

http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/ww299/vincesun/Tianjin/Redcoverbags_.jpg

http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/ww299/vincesun/Tianjin/redcoverbag2_.jpg




big melon

http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/ww299/vincesun/Tianjin/melonbag_.jpg





albino red cover and throwbacks for less than 10 bucks...


http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/ww299/vincesun/Tianjin/ARGD1_.jpg


http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/ww299/vincesun/Tianjin/ARGDT_.jpg


http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/ww299/vincesun/Tianjin/redcovertank_.jpg


albino blushings are always popular in China for some reason...


9 bucks for a whole bag of adults...

http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/ww299/vincesun/Tianjin/albinoblushing_.jpg

http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/ww299/vincesun/Tianjin/ablushingsub_.jpg

http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/ww299/vincesun/Tianjin/ablushingjuv_.jpg


superveil marbles

http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/ww299/vincesun/Tianjin/supveil_.jpg


live bloodworms

http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/ww299/vincesun/Tianjin/BW_.jpg


arowanas

http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/ww299/vincesun/Tianjin/arowana_.jpg



Kingkong parrots...all in monster size



http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/ww299/vincesun/Tianjin/Kingkong1_.jpg


http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/ww299/vincesun/Tianjin/kingkong_.jpg



one day this tank will be too small for them...

http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/ww299/vincesun/Tianjin/mostertank_.jpg



turtles and scorpions

http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/ww299/vincesun/Tianjin/scorpion_.jpg


some random shots

http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/ww299/vincesun/Tianjin/random2_.jpg

http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/ww299/vincesun/Tianjin/random_.jpg


http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/ww299/vincesun/Tianjin/pop_.jpg


plants

http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/ww299/vincesun/Tianjin/plants_.jpg


http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/ww299/vincesun/Tianjin/pigs_.jpg




Xiaofei :)

[johnnathan]

OMG...

[zman78]

nice pics, looks like the discus are available in abundance and cheap! 10 bucks!! wow, I wish.

[Crockett]

those prices are like a twilight zone episode, I like those barless red covers.

[strawberryblonde]

Wow, that was a trip right back to China for me!!

My son and DIL considered buying discus when they were living in China simply because the fish were all huge, gorgeously shaped and CHEAP! They just knew that they wouldn't want to part with them when it was time to move to Italy, so they chose to purchase big tanks with all the goodies while in china and then had them shipped to Italy to wait for their arrival.

I was shocked at the prices of nearly everything in China. The discus we saw were $8 each for adults, jade was 1/4 the price we pay here...and on and on. Each marketplace specializes in just one type of thing. So you go to the pearl market just to buy pearls...and each store is 7-8 levels of vendors. It blew my mind! LOL

[Skip]

whoa!!
nice!

[dadecountyalan]

if those fish are so cheap there, why are they that much more expensive here???

[April]

Very nice. Cheap but start adding the shipping costs, health certificates, import permits etc , taxes, the price quickly grows.
Thanks for sharing. Pretty cool. I'd love to go there.

[YSS]

Cheap by our standards not their standards. Having said that I need to go to China! :-)

[hedut]

Awesome picture Xiaofei, Thanks for sharing :).

[seanyuki]

Thanks for sharing those pics Xiao Fei.

[zimmjeff]

I think I'm going to cry.

[laborelch]

in awe :-)

[yim11]

很好!

谢谢你

[seanyuki]

+1


很好!

谢谢你

[walan20]

They're almost as cheap as the ones in Beijing. But they're not ^^


Zhen Pian Yi!

[walan20]

Kan qi lai hai shi you zhong guo ren yang yu... LOL

[RebelThunder]

just like back home. :)

in the Philippines though.

[walan20]

I love how overpriced everything is in America, except for the electricity, the water, the gas, the food, the clothes, the cars, the toys, the computers, the drinking water, etc... everything that is manufactered is more expensive in the USA, because with 1 dollar, you can pay someone in China for 1 hour. Haha, with 1 dollar in america... nope.

[Matt0matic]

Awesome pictures, I would love to see a ornamental fish market like that one day!

[Larry Bugg]

Awesome!, thanks for sharing. I've seen the pictures of the bagged fish before but never really thought about it. Do they just change the water in the bags that don't sell daily?

[seanyuki]

Same in fish street in Mong Kok (Hong Kong) they bagged the fish daily b4 shop opens and hang it outside the shop.....the same way as Xiao Fei posted.

[walan20]

Wow I really never knew that Chinese people had discus as pets in America 0.o

[x2h]

原来楼主和walan都是老中，哈哈。这里还有谁是？

[gerrard00]

Awesome photos, thanks for posting them.