Hetty Posted November 17, 2007 Report Share Posted November 17, 2007 Hi everyone I've kept bettas before but had to give them up when I moved. I'd like to get into breeding them now. So, a few questions - I've noticed we can legally import them from America? is that right? no quarantine issues? Where should I look to buy a good pair of bettas? not a petshop I guess? I'm in Sydney if anyone is selling nice bettas. Cheers :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hetty Posted November 17, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 17, 2007 I've had a look and I really like this one: http://www.aquabid.com/cgi-bin/auction/auc...&1195290319 But it'd be $60 by the time it got here. Would this be a good investment? Or something like this? (auction ends very soon). Cheers :dontknow: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeni Posted November 17, 2007 Report Share Posted November 17, 2007 MY guess is that someone will send you a pm if they have some for sale.. There are lots of breeders who use this forum.. Why import them yourself if you can get them here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hetty Posted November 17, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 17, 2007 I read that it's good to get stock from overseas to breed something different, but I'm happy to buy locally if anyone has some nice bettas for sale :dontknow: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bettarazzi Posted November 17, 2007 Report Share Posted November 17, 2007 Hi Hetty. Welcome to AAQ. All imported fish do have to be quarantined. While it is legal to import from the US the trick is finding someone who will quarantine the fish for you. Many of us buy fish off AquaBid. Generally you should look for sellers who list Jodi-Lea Matheson as their Australian transhipper. Jodi doesn't import from the US so just skip all the US sellers. Look for Thai, Malaysian, Singaporean or Indonesian seller. You can find more information about importing bettas, AquaBid and transhipping in the Classifieds forum and the Transhipping sub-forum. As a general guide you can expect a matched pair of imported bettas to cost you between $100 to $120 this includes quarantine costs and shipping. I have some imported bettas for sale which you can find by clicking here. Apart from those I have some others for sale which I haven't taken pictures of yet (partly because I'm tempted to keep them for myself ). They are: a Yellow halfmoon pair, a Red halfmoon pair, and a Melano halfmoon (with a steel blue halfmoon female). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dreamer Posted November 17, 2007 Report Share Posted November 17, 2007 Hi, Welcome to the forum. I am just starting breeding myself after being in Betta's for about a year. I have decided to try & get my first breeding pairs from Australian breeders as after looking around alot I feel that alot of the Australian stock is equal in quality to the imported stock anyway...afterall most of them are from a matched pair of imported fish In saying that though I have to admit looking on aquabid can be very addictive...there are soo many beautiful Betta's there and I am sure one day I will eventually give in to the lure of the aquabid Betta Leah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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