30-09-08
Yes, it is under ground if you consider his house as level G. It's no black market selling bettas illegally but Pak Cik Lan or known as Cik Le, in a 'Kelantanese' dialect, is one of the breeders in Kelantan. To be more specific, in Kota Bharu, his house or betta crib is located at Jalan Tok Semian near to my grandmother's house. Actually he lives next door. Hence, it's easier for me to come and visit him the whole week during the festival season last 2 weeks.
His house is actually near to the 'Masjid Negeri' of Kelantan and a 5 minutes walk from the town of Kota Bharu. He keeps and breeds his bettas under his wooden village house and also being kept with other animals such as his cats and some 'ayam serama'. He uses ketapang water but the ketapang water has a light sense which does not look dark and browny. In his crib, he keeps and breeds most butterflies betta and less solid color betta. Furthermore, it gives the betta hobbyist like me more choice instead of having a headache to choose from the same colour or type. His price is quite reasonable or maybe I got a reasonable price due to the 'orang kampuung' purposes since I first came with my uncle.
He's in his 50's yet he is still healthy and regularly make water change for his fishes. He said that there were some other hobbyists from Kuala Lumpur that recently visited his crib to buy bettas. He actually buy his new bettas all the way from Penang and breeds them back in Kelantan. He sells quality betta for a nice price. As quoted by Ai(Garuda Funky):-
"Cheap= No good and Good= No cheap!"
"But FREE is the best!"
So, good bettas never come in good price OK? So, I bought a total of 5 bettas to be brought back home in Kajang which only two of them belongs to myself. A pair of Red's was bought by my friend Fath a.k.a DonPhatz and a blue butterfly was bought by Shukri a.k.a Shukdx. I actually stored the bettas at his house for a week before bringing them back home with a total of 12hours journey from Kelantan to Kajang which resulted stress to these magnificent creature. Well, sorry for that my friends. Next time, we'll find a much safer way for you guys to be transported. :p
So, he also feeds and care his fishes with a traditional way. It is not dangerous to let those blood sucking mosquitoes lay their eggs on an uncovered stored water since his bettas will enjoy eating the larvaes daily. He even breeds in a basin which he puts water lilies or locally known as 'bunga kiambang' at the surface of the 'breeding tank' and finally breeds his bettas with some wood plates which will shade the basin to give a dark sensation of the breeding process.
The outer view of his crib. Wonder where is his bettas? :-?
A rack of 'Low but not so low" quality bettas. Sold as low as RM10.
The place of expensive show-off bettas. Name your price.
Care to learn the traditional way of multiplying your bettas?
FLARE! FLARE! FLARE! KILL! KILL! KILL! DIE! DIE! DIE!
CAUTION: This is not Cik Le's betta. A guest came and brought his betta to be shown off.
DonPhatz solid red devil betta! It's a male of course. :p
I also couldn't believe my eyes! Yup, it's a pineapple tri-band. But sadly, it has already been SOLD OUT! Sorry for the picture because he was jarred in a plastic cup.
A 'tembaga' Halfmoon. Nice fins and rays.
He's White! He's nice! Yet he's not my Dandruff. Maybe he's one of Dandruff's platinum white siblings.
What type is he? Perhaps a dragon white-red butterfly Halfmoon.
Phantom in his squared-plastic tank. Swim free my friend!
Stop that wriggle mr giggle! (Still not sure of the real motive of this caption)
Fly away my little butterfly! Fly as high as you want! Flying without wings~..weekkkk!!!>:p
A close up view of phantom.
Looking bubbly anyone? hehe..
Cik Le's tri-band champion. cute and aggressive. Is he a Thai flag? :-?
"I'm a Cambodian!", said this little fella when I was hardly trying to snap his picture.
The 'other side' of this so called Thai flag champion.
So, he also feeds and care his fishes with a traditional way. It is not dangerous to let those blood sucking mosquitoes lay their eggs on an uncovered stored water since his bettas will enjoy eating the larvaes daily. He even breeds in a basin which he puts water lilies or locally known as 'bunga kiambang' at the surface of the 'breeding tank' and finally breeds his bettas with some wood plates which will shade the basin to give a dark sensation of the breeding process.
So, these pictures below shows you a couple of shots taken by me using my digital Olympus FE-320 camera and also using my dad's Sony Alpha DSLR. As the saying goes, pictures will tell you a thousand of tales. So, enjoy it!\(^v^)/
The outer view of his crib. Wonder where is his bettas? :-?
A rack of 'Low but not so low" quality bettas. Sold as low as RM10.
The place of expensive show-off bettas. Name your price.
Care to learn the traditional way of multiplying your bettas?
FLARE! FLARE! FLARE! KILL! KILL! KILL! DIE! DIE! DIE!
CAUTION: This is not Cik Le's betta. A guest came and brought his betta to be shown off.
DonPhatz solid red devil betta! It's a male of course. :p
I also couldn't believe my eyes! Yup, it's a pineapple tri-band. But sadly, it has already been SOLD OUT! Sorry for the picture because he was jarred in a plastic cup.
A 'tembaga' Halfmoon. Nice fins and rays.
He's White! He's nice! Yet he's not my Dandruff. Maybe he's one of Dandruff's platinum white siblings.
What type is he? Perhaps a dragon white-red butterfly Halfmoon.
Phantom in his squared-plastic tank. Swim free my friend!
Stop that wriggle mr giggle! (Still not sure of the real motive of this caption)
Fly away my little butterfly! Fly as high as you want! Flying without wings~..weekkkk!!!>:p
A close up view of phantom.
Looking bubbly anyone? hehe..
Cik Le's tri-band champion. cute and aggressive. Is he a Thai flag? :-?
"I'm a Cambodian!", said this little fella when I was hardly trying to snap his picture.
The 'other side' of this so called Thai flag champion.
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