New fish

This boy was in Thailand on Saturday, and come Tuesday he was in Stalybridge, poor buggar lol
He's currently in a quarantine tank where he will stay for about 4 weeks before he gets put into his permanent home

Awwwww bless him - silly question, are all fish imported then?

No not all fish are imported.

This boy was gifted to me by a friend as I had stopped buying imports, I think all the travelling lowers their immune system.
There are a lot of betta breeders in the UK now so Ive started buying UK bred. I'm hopeing that as they were born here they will be more resilient and hopefully have a longer life span.

That's good news - it always makes me panic when any animal is shipped from outside the UK - I often wonder where they have taken them from (so to speak)

These fish are bred in Thailand and Indonesia and then shipped into the UK. They literally have 100s I jars not much bigger than a jam jar or milk bottle. Once they get to about 4 months old they go up for sale and can be shipped to a lot of countries

oh dear, don't like the sound of that - poor fish

Does fish have a name yet xx

No not yet, I may name him Mika after my favourite ex F1 driver x

I like that name

Another new addition

Beautiful - what breed of fish is he/she - do you have a name for fishie xx

It's a betta splenden and no name yet.

Ohhhh I like the sound of that breed xx

Gorgeous fish, still enjoying your hobby I see.

Mika Hak? You should call the 2nd one Lewis, Jenson, or Mansell lol

Yep Mika Hakkinen, not sure what to call my other yet.

My other fish are called: Blade, Logan, Genghis, Malakai, Wladimir, Vitali and two yet to be named