Fish market in Brazil

[greg y]

No offense intended by this post, I just thought it was weird to see these monsters in the market today. I'm visiting family in Brazil.
 
Huge Pacu and some sort of large catfish.

[Ron]

Interesting how geographical location influences what we think of fish at a market. Thanks for sharing.

Were there any turtles at the market?

[greg y]

No, never seen any turtles, they're really big on beef here.
The bakeries are amazing too.

[mibwb]

Too bad you don't have time to go live fish collecting and bring back some nice ones.  I can think of a few I'd look for.

[JG]

Reminds me of when I lived in West Africa and saw fish for sale that we keep in the hobby. It's all about perspective I suppose.

[greg y]

Too bad you don't have time to go live fish collecting and bring back some nice ones.  I can think of a few I'd look for.

I didn't do a lot of research but I did google it and it appeared that Brazil's rules for that were a lot harder than other South American countries. I'm going to try to hit a pet store and maybe the Aquarium here in Sao Paulo. I'll take photos and report back.

[mibwb]

Sounds like it'll be interesting.....take lots of pics.  Get prices, that should be interesting too.

[Joefish]

I was always told that pacu are a staple food fish in parts of SA.  Tom-ba-Qui was the name used.

[greg y]

Ok, so I hit a couple tropical fish - aquarium stores today. Both pretty high end with impressive coral and saltwater displays. I was a little disappointed in the lack of S. American - Central American fish and cichlids. One store had some monster arrowannas, cats and snakeheads but not many plecos at all. I'm thinking the main aquarium in town would likely be a disappointment as well so I'll probably skip it.

Here's a few pics, I'll post more and a few videos when I get back in town.

[greg y]

Four more pics

[Ron]

I was a little disappointed in the lack of S. American - Central American fish and cichlids.

I think you've got to take a step back. In S. America, S. American fish aren't exactly exotic. They eat those S. American fish. Go into a US LFS and how many bluegill, redear, pumpkinseed, bass, various darter species, etc, do they have?

[greg y]

I expected more tetras, angels, plecos etc...
Anyways, here's some pics from the second store.

[greg y]

And here are 4 more

[mibwb]

Thanks for sharing...

[danielratti]

They could go catch there own plecos and other fish themselves....