fish updates

Quick updates on things. We've been very busy these couple of days going back/forth to hospital (our dearest mom is hospitalized), so our apologies to any delays of getting back to some of you.

Anyway, 2 tanks of fry already had home since couple of days ago. Thanks to AK, JD, RM. They should be around good 300-400 of fry there, enjoy them guys....

1 tank left, about 150-200 fry, current interest came from DZ, AM, SG, EI, D?, and MT (sorry not replying to you guys yet on this). Unfortunately, about half of this fry went dead this morning. Council had turned off electricity for road work the day before for nearly half a day at night and we didn't realize this till we got back from hospital (been staying there for 2 days). The timing had never came so perfect.....when the temperature dropped closer to 5C at night! Anyway, we're checking them out now and will keep them temporarily at our place till Friday. Guys, chances we will be only able to contact you on the weekend for this (time permitting).

Another bad news, one of the shipments to LH went all dead cause of freezing temperature (and our mistake of not putting 2 or 3 heatpacks -- we were running out of them and forgot about it till last minute due to hectic before we rushed off mom). This shipment took 2 days (we think???) rather than 1 day that we expected....Lucky other shipments weren't affected.....

This won't happen again (not sure if LH was anywhere happy about this, but hopefully she can forgive us for giving her such bad experience). It never happened before, but things are doomed to happen at least once.

Timing has always prevented us to be able to ship fish through courier, particularly FW courier (plus they had been so irregular to get to us that there are times when we waited for 2 darn days to get the goods picked up, or how frequently the missed our shipments making a 1 day delivery becoming 2 or 3 days!). We found that it is alot simpler to send them through AP though it has been mentioned to us recently as "illegal" to send live fish with them (not quite sure about this, but we've been doing that couple of times and the guy at the counter was ok about it). Anyway, perhaps we need to be clear about this to you....if you help us buying our fish, then we find whatever ways to get our fish to you, which may involve getting them through AP or if you're lucky through FW (we never tried AAE but currently there wasn't much of the time available on our side to deal with this atm).

Anywya, we still have 2 large tanks of giant HMPK for those who are interested ($100 for lot of 20-25 fish). A couple smaller tanks here and there, not having time to clean them up yet, but they have some fish too.....We've got lots of heatpacks now (was wondering if we ever consume them all, but we'll deal with this later, same way we need to deal with left over FW coupons later)....This week will be very very busy for us, so we may not able to reply to you at all, but next week we should have a day or 2 available to send the fish.

Some people have been asking for pictures of the fish, again as we said, we can't really take pictures but we will try again to do that later on the weekend (time permitting!!!).

There are currently quite a number (20 pairs??) of very large HMPK that would be ashame to go to pet shop (hmmm....haven't contacted them, but they should be quite happy to get our fish.....). Anyway, they are about 2.5 inches (both males and females) for 3-4 months ones. The younger ones about 2-2.3 inches for 2.5-3 months.

Also, we just noticed that there are very nice long fin females, particularly yellow corn, platinum red, cambo red, and copper females. We didn't notice them before cause we thought they were one of the males (with shorter fins) and they're hiding on the last-row tanks (pretty dark tanks too). This was a surprised cause their size is quite large for 2 month old, so definitely ones of those breeder-quality ones. Oh well, they won't get used by us for a couple of months time, so for those of you out there who'd like to start breeding them, let us know and we'll send them as part of your purchase (but you may still have to grow them till they're 3 or 4 months old before breeding....remember, they are large in body but small mentally!)

Hope the above clear things for some of you who have contacted us (yes, we'll get through the emails soon...please be patience)