My name is Atison Phumchoosri. I am a Thai and was born in Bangkok in 1942. I finished my primary and secondary school in Bangkok and further my study in Germany where I became a cameraman and worked in an international news agency covering war stories in Loas,Cambodian and Vietnam. After hard and dangerous job for 4 years I gave up and turned myself into farmer ever since.

        In 1952 I was 10 years old and started seaching for betta. I went almost everywhere to find good fighters, in rice fields, in canals or even in swams in Bangkok. Thailand those days had a population of only 18 millions and there were rice fields and canals everywhere, especially in Bangkok.The place where I went very often was Sathorn Canal and Wireless Canal.

        Bettasplendens I got from these two canals were of excellent fighters. Fighters in different parts of canal are different in their braveness and most of my good fighters came from Wireless Canal just besides the American Embassy. But there are much less canals and almost no rice fields in Bangkok nowadays. I believed that most of the fighters I obtained those days were of imbellis species and rarely betta splendens. I raise and quit breeding betta several times due to my education and occupation overseas.