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Welfare of Livestock
The welfare of all livestock offered for sale is of paramount importance. This includes fish, shrimps and snails. Please ensure that all livestock are healthy prior to sale and correctly bagged.
Prebooking Livestockfor the auction or sales table
All seller’s livestock must aligned to an auction letter and all livestock must be pre-booked. We do this for two reasons. The first is to understand the health and whereabouts of the rarer livebearers within the UK. The second is that this may become a pre-requisit for all auctions in the future.
The BLA reserve the right to certain descretion when the seller is booking their Auction lots and sales table livestock in on the day.
Please note: We will not accept new auction or sales table livestock lists on the day of the event. Additions to an existing pre-booked list will be accepted at the auction managers descretion.
Seller’s guidelines
Auction Sellers
The BLA requires auctions to start on time to avoid delays at the end of the day.
Seller’s must have their auction lots booked in and with the auction team a minimum of one hour before the start of the auction.
BLA Sales Table.
The BLA Sales table gives the seller a way to sell their surplus aquarium furniture, plants and livestock etc.
Excess livestock can be accepted fish (this includes non-livebearers),shrimp, snails and live cutures.
Sales Table Guidance
Cash only Payments
Please note all BLA events are cash only, there are currently no facilities to take cashless payments. Cheques will ONLY be accepted by prior arrangement.
Due to the influx of counterfeit currency, £50.00 notes will not be accepted at any BLA event.
Sales Table Sellers
Please note that ALLsales table items need to be on the sales table no later than 11:30.
After 11:30, no new sales table items (non-livestock or livestock) will be added to the sales table.
Livestock not accepted at our events
- Fish with inbred deformities, such as “Balloon” types or those with exceptionally “long fins”.
These and other similar debilitating deformities are detrimental to the health of the fish. - Livestock that have been injected with dyes.
- Genetically modified livestock such as “Glo Fish”.
- Any fish deemed inappropriate for sale at a BLA event:
for example ‘tank-busting’ species, and aggressive hybrid fish (such as Flower horn cichlids).