Zoo Negara Malaysia, 2009

My family made a trip to check out our local Zoo Negara. It was quite a fun time, seeing lions, monkeys and lots n lots of birds. Took the opportunity to click a few photos of invertebrates and of course, fishes :) Here's a picture of a softshell tortoise. He's big, as in nearly a foot and a half length! 

Unfortunately for the malaysian public, it lacks the lustre and beauty of our LFS, where everything is well maintained and properly done up. The tanks in this place are really trashed out and not much maintenance goes to it. 

Have you ever seen so much blackbeard algae! I'm wondering if this is a case of fried rice with chicken or chicken with fried rice :) Or maybe it's a showcase of the native algae one would get in Malaysia?? 

Fishes do look healthy and beautiful, unfortunately not much can be said about their habitat and setup. 

Here's a beautiful bujuk. Rarely found in the wild these days...unfortunately, i couldn't get a very nice pic of him. 

Love this photo of an old wise fish, the Red Giant Gourami, or better known as the Sabah Kaloi. He's really a majestic ancient guy... so much character, the Marlon Brando of the fish world, maybe? :)

A tankful of lampans. Notice how scratched up the glasses were?

Alas, thanks to my tank being cracked up, and having lost all my cichlids, I'm reduce to posting other people tanks. Am in the midst of resetting everything so that we can have a bigger house for the cichlids which were all release back into the pond they were caught from. Hopefully if time permits, I'd be able to setup a big 7-8 feet tank for the hoard to leave in :) keeping fingers cross!

Here's a  bit more information for those who wants to see 'em first hand :-

http://www.zoonegara.org.my/

Opens daily from 9:00PM - 5:00PM

Bukit Tinggi Japanese Garden

Alas it's been such a long while since i've last updated this blog. We made a trip up to Bukit Tinggi Resort, late last year. They had a beautiful japanese garden up there with lots of water features. Folks from Singapore were up there taking photos of birds with their super-duper SLRs with extra long lenses and flash. If only our Malaysian Ringgit could afford us more :) 

Beautiful kois in a pond. Love the landscape and all... lots of lovey dovey up here romanticing the place. Also, loads of city folks coming up to avoid the heat. Nice place to spend with the family too, especially with the chilly air n beautiful gardens. Oh yeah, this were taken in the botanical gardens.

Baby fishes... either they have a preggie koi, but they somehow or other look like rainbows... weird :)

As you head towards the Japanese Tea House, you'd come across some of the more meticulously design water gardens. This is just so lovely. If ever I'd have the space and time and initiative and money and brains to cook something like this up right beside one's home...bliss :)

Many artificial ponds in this area. Kudos to Mr Kaio Ariizumi and team for designing and building this site.

Waterfalls part deux. Play of water over rocks, only wish we had something like these much nearer to Kuala Lumpur, instead of having to travel all the way up here. Oh yeah, you could also purchase fish food. They'd sell 'em at the ice-cream shop right smack between the botanical garden and the japanese village. So look out for 'em :)

For more information, do check out :-

http://www.berjayaclubs.com/tinggi/index.cfm

http://www.cameron-highland-destination.com/highlands-berjaya-hills-bukit-tinggi-resort.html