In the fall of 2019, I had trouble reserving my flight from Narita Airport to Bangkok multiple times due to a typhoon, and I finally arrived in Bangkok four days later than planned.
Well, the damage caused by the typhoon in 2017 was not as great as it was for the people in the affected areas, but it was stressful to have my plans go awry.

Well, when you arrive in Bangkok, the first place you should go is Chatuchak Market, also known as Sunday Market or Weekend Market.
It's been almost 30 years since I started coming here.
Its appearance has changed greatly from the past, but for some reason I feel nostalgic for its old, dirty appearance.

A new shopping mall called Mix Chatuchak opened in Chatuchak Market at the end of August 2019, making it even more crowded.
Chatuchak has long had a shopping mall called JJ Mall, and when you get tired from walking in the pet area without air conditioning, the cool building inside is a great place to help you rehydrate and rest. I got it.
The area, which looks like a series of barracks and many shops, is hellishly hot during the day, and if you don't take a break in a cool place, you could suffer from heatstroke.
It's great to have more options for rest areas.
What's more, the pet area that I concentrate on looking at is located in the vast Chatuchak market, right between JJ Mall and Mix Chatuchak.

Now, there were rumors that once this pet area, Mixed Chatuchak, was built, it would be demolished and people would be forced to move into it, but so far it seems to be okay.

Currently, only a betta fish shop called Inter Fish, which is well-known among betta fish enthusiasts, has this mix of Chatuchak.
The other betta shops are doing their best and doing business in the area they have been in for a long time.
However, when I looked into the store for the first time in a few months, I noticed that things were changing little by little, such as relocations and new stores opening.
Among them, the one I have been working with for a long time is an old man's shop that specializes in wild foods.
The shop, which cannot be described as very clean, has no particular lighting, so if you catch a fish you are interested in, you borrow a flashlight from the shop owner and shine it yourself.It is a very old-fashioned shop.
That said, the owner of this restaurant has a good eye for fish, and I have absolute trust in him.
How many fish have come to you as models from here?
Whenever I pop in here, the owner always approaches me with a smile on his face, and when he sees new fish, he removes the partition between the tanks and shines a flashlight on the flaring fish to show me.

This time, there was an unfamiliar colored fish in the aquarium near the entrance.
At first glance, the impression is that of a young, slender mustard gas plastic cut.
this is? When I asked him, he said it was Yellow Splendens.
Indeed, if you ask me, it has the body type of Wilde's Splendence.
It looks like the red color has been removed from the body and fins and replaced with yellow.
The center of the tail fin is elongated, and many individuals have a spadetail-like appearance.
Here, I asked the shop owner a few questions.
Is this fish pure wild, or is it an improved breed created by crossbreeding?
If it is an improved variety, how was it created?
The answer is that it is an improved breed, and a male wild Splendens was crossed with a female Plakat Mustard Gas, and over several generations they created a wild-type Splendens with no red pigment.
When I asked where the original wild splendens came from, I was told that it was unknown because the fish was made by a friend of the shop owner.
Judging from the elongation of the tail fin, I suspect it's a Benjarong, which I've seen a lot lately, or one from Phu Rua or Don Mueang, but I think it's more likely a Benjarong.

Fish that are hybridized between different species and are called hybrids or aliens by Thai people have been popular in the past few years, but recently, breeding has been carried out to incorporate these colors into wild strains using placat females. It is about to take place.
Before the Yellow Splendens introduced this time, the Yellow Inveris introduced in this column was also created through a similar crossbreeding process.
What was disappointing about this Yellow Splendens was that only the males were released, perhaps because the breeders were afraid that they would be bred.
Regardless of whether they breed or not, when purchasing wild bettas, enthusiasts should definitely buy them in pairs.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who suddenly loses the desire to buy when I'm told that they only sell males.

In order to introduce it in this column, I purchased only the male for photographing, but if it were normal, I would have passed on it.
Although they are not betta fish, we occasionally see ovoviviparous killifish species such as Micropoechilia picta and Palae in Chatuchak.
However, for over ten years now, only males of these two species have been sold.
The same goes for export, with only males being exported and never females.
It is true that ovoviviparous killifish are easy to breed, so if you sell them as a pair, they will probably be bred quickly.
However, I think it's more realistic to choose that the pair will sell better than to be afraid that it won't sell as a result.What do you think?

In the case of Yellow Splendens, it seems that females are not released only in the early stages, but there is no need to worry about them being bred by enthusiasts, even if they are in the same industry.
Even if you ask me the price for just the male fish, it's very affordable, and I don't think there are any out-of-focus breeders who would try to make a profit by breeding such fish.
Perhaps in 2020, Yellow Splendens will be sold in pairs and available in Japan.
Since it is a plain color, it is difficult to say that it is a fish that will appeal to everyone, but it is likely to be included in the Wild Splendens lineup, so if you see it, please take care of it.
I feel like these varieties will soon disappear from the market unless someone carefully maintains their lineage.