Buying Goldfish
Only in the Philippines would you expect a vendor to be selling goldfish from a motorcycle with a side cart.
This mobile tropical fish store on wheels was well planned. Two large black rubbish bins held the water and tanks were set up on top on a piece of plywood. There was a battery operated pump to keep the water aerated and to pressurize the bags once the fish were sold.
At the end of the day the water from the aquariums was poured back into the bins with the unsold fish and brought home.
This entrepreneur had found his niche and had purchased a new motorbike that runs around 70,000 pesos with his profits. He had first rate customer service and some nice healthy fish.
There was none of the crap that you often find at some local stores – complete with sales rep slumped over, half asleep at the counter or busy texting on their cell phone, trying to avoid potential customers if at all possible.
No, this guy was a hustler!
I like to support guys like this, and decided to get a fish tank and some fish to liven up my apartment
I selected 4 red swordtails (15 pesos ea), a black molly (15 peso), and a Siamese fighting fish (25 pesos). Fish food cost 5 and 7 pesos – I got the pellets and the flakes, a plant (20 peso), and the medium sized fish tank (150 peso) and headed home in the driving rain.
“Mongo” – the janitor fish.
Selling Goldfish
New location
The fish guy has moved his operation to a cool place under the trees near the city hall.
This Styrofoam box is full of freshly hatched minnows.
They still set up the mobile fish selling stand a couple of times a week but this is new the head office :)
Good luck!
tropical fish dealer in Ormoc City
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Hey dp
you kept that bugger quiet. Please dont tell me u gonna fatten em up and fry em for xmas dinner ahah Only jokin just incase any Greenpeace readers.
DP,
Those fish are the lucky one’s to be taken home as family “PETS” as most that size get “MASHED” into some kind of fish paste in the Philippines and eaten.
MG
Wow,
I was wondering what those red things in my omlet were…
dp
… one of the little guys jumped out of the holding tub while i was cleaning the tank.
Beth and I tried for about an hour to revive it, and did get a few wiggles out of “Little Red” but the little guy had been out of the water too long.
you can really get attached to thee little fish…
bummer
dp
I upgraded to a 20 gallon fish tank now…
we have 43 fish:
10 silver dollar looking ones
14 sword tails and mollies
16 zebras
1 janitor fish (pacostamis)
1 red tail shark
1 siamese
…however
one of the swordtails had a pup this morning – we put it in a separate tank and named it “Christmas”
…actually we found 4 new ones upon closer inspection – might have to get another tank :) The hard part is finding someone to watch the fish when I go on extended forays into the countryside!
dp
hi, like this one. where did you find the aquarium pet vendor? and any advice for starter. my first aquarium ready to be delivered next week is a 50-70 gallon in size. I would like some help on the type of fish i could put for breeding and for “pet” purposes. Thanks. Nice shots here also.
Hi Cheryl,
This goldfish vendor sets up outside Guisanos Supermarket on his off days. He also drives a truck for Pepsi or Coke when he is not working at selling these tropical fish.
I have a lot of respect for a guy like this who uses his imagination to fill a niche market and helps support his family with the additional money he earns.
He gets some fish from a dealer n Cebu but raises a lot of them in tubs in his back yard. The red swordtails are one of the easiest to raise.
I have had a few of my sword tails reproduce and I keep the new born fish in separate tanks so they don’t get eaten.
To raise these fish as a business would probably require more work than most of us are willing to put in. I had 5 tanks but spent so much time away from home that I decided to give them all away in the end. One tank went to the Barangay Captain and 2 or 3 to my friend Dave down the street.
I still have a couple tanks and go over to Dave’s house to get my favorite fish to keep me company when I plan to stick around for a few months.
Good luck with your project!
dp
hi good day…where can we buy variety of fish in cebu city?Coz i’m planning to buy some…thanks a lot…
I’ve seen this person before , in fact I buy fish from him.
He sells in the Mini Forest Near the Old Ormoc City Hall!
Hi Marc
Right you are! He sometimes has both booths open but I prefer the one under the trees by the old City Hall as you mentioned.
There are a lot of nice plants for sale in that area too :)
cheers
dp
uhm where does the fish vendor live?does he have goldfishes too?