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Market july 2011
Chatuchak Market Bangkok
Some photos from my last visit to the pet section of the Chatuchak Market in Bangkok.
The main market Chatuchak Weekend Market is one of the worlds biggest of its kind, and you can buy everything from clothes, plastic toys and sunglasses to furniture, paintings and sculptures. As the name implies the main market is only open saturdays and sundays.
The pet section is open all days in the week, and is a must see if you are visiting Bangkok.
I have visited the market several times during the last four years, and one alarming trend I have noticed, is the increasing number of short body breeding forms available. Earlier these sad looking man made freaks was limited to Fancy Goldfish and Balloon Mollys. But now many more species is available. I have so far seen short body forms of Blood Parrots, Clarias sp., Glossolepis incisus, Melanotaenia spp., Moenkhausia sp. and Trichogaster leerii. Many more will probably be available during the coming years.
Chatuchak Weekend Market
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Angelfish
This is weird.
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Carassius auratus auratus
Fancy Goldfish.
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Carassius auratus auratus
Goldfish with weird body shape.
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Catlocarpio siamensis
Siamese giant carp.
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Distichodus lusosso
Longsnout Distichodus.
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Hemibagrus sp.
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Hymenocera sp.
Harlequin Shrimp.
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Lepisosteus sp.
Gar
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Myxocyprinus asiaticus
Chinese Sucker Carp.
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Neocaridina heteropoda var. "red"
Red Cherry Shrimp.
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Ompok eugeneiatus
Borneo Glass Catfish.
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Oryzias mekongensis
Mekong ricefish.
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Oryzias mekongensis
Mekong ricefish.
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Oryzias mekongensis
Mekong ricefish.
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Panaque sp.
Another very larve Pleco.
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Panaque sp.
Very large Pleco.
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Poecilia reticulata
Full Red Guppy.
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Polypterus sp.
Bichirs.
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Schistura sp.
Unknown loach.
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Toxotes blythii
Archer fish.
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A small plant shop
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Barbs, Cichlids and Goldfish
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Big fish
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Blod parrots and Astronotus ocellatus
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Blue Flowerhorn
Called Titanium or Thai Silk.
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Crowded
A tank full of different Malawicichlids.
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Fancy Goldfish
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Flowerhorn
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Malawi cichlids
Sold in bags from the sidewalk.
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Rainbow fish
Short body type
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Rays, puffers, eels and catfish
Sold in bags from the sidewalk.
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Saltwater tank
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Saltwater tank
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Saltwater tanks
Outside a shop in JJ Mall.
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Sharks
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