Buying Bettas Online?

[DarkPride]

ok sounds really stupid to me though i dont understand it very well,
how dose it work? lol i mean bringing home 1 male in a sealed cup, or bag makes them pretty upset, most of the time it takes me a good day or so to calm them down, with a bit of stress meds lol, though in saying that i have never had one die from bringing them home,
but really sending them by mail? even marked fragile?

also dose anyone know of a Australian site for buying selling online?

 

[Liquid skills]

hi buying bettas online isnt that bad but it is better to know the person first and to see pictures a site that may suit you is aquabid

 

[DarkPride]

hi buying bettas online isnt that bad but it is better to know the person first and to see pictures a site that may suit you is aquabid

saddly most of the people on aquabid are in the usa, pretty sure all ill get from that is a $30 belly up,

i think if i did order i would have to find a Australian only site

 

[Fishy friend2]

You can get beautiful fish from Thailand through the transhipper in Australia. I've never personally shipped or received fish. But I'm going to send one of my bettas a couple states over, on Monday. And in a week or two my Betta pair from Thailand should arrive In the mail

 

[OldMan47]

It depends a lot on your local import restrictions. Here in the US I would need to buy an importer license at huge costs per year, then I would need to pay for a health inspection for each shipment, whether it was 1 fish or 1000. That cost would almost make sense for the 1000 but would be completely impossible for a single fish. If I bought a fish from, let's say Malaysia, I would need to hire someone that does regular fish imports. That person would already have the importer license so I could combine my order with lots of other people and maybe make the cost per fish for the inspection not too bad. In that case I might only need to pay as much to the trans-shipper as I paid for a premium fish. Where does that leave me? I pay, let's say $50 for a truly superb fish and pay the trans-shipper the same amount. I now have a fish that has been in transit for a week or so to bring back from the edge of death. He is worth $100 to me already although he might fetch $30 in the local market. I find it better to find one of two cases. Either I can find a fish that I like locally or I can find one within my own country that is as nice as I want. In either case I will get that fish legally and for maybe half the actual cost of one from Thailand. (yea I know I switched countries) If you want to try your hand at smuggling, you can try to bypass the trans-shipper but don't forget the penalties involved in smuggling. The lawyer, solicitor, alone will cost much more than the fish and the time in prison cannot be measured in money.

 

[DarkPride]

lol i think i would do it all by the book, if i was going to order or sell, though i dont think it is too much here for a live export import license,

though hell, i think i would only like to have them sent inside aust considering it could and most likely would kill the fish in transit,