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? :)
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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
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A small pond outside the house would be nice for your cichlids or you need a bigger house for your hobby ;-)
ReplyDeletewei! U're still around blogger! :) Apa khabar! Yeah, would need a bigger house to house a pond actually! I guess an aquarium tank would suffice. How ya doin?
ReplyDeleteBuy the corner unit next to mine in Lake Edge la, then we can put a big pond into both gardens
ReplyDeletelol....i think it'd be cheaper/easier to rennovate my house n make a moat around it! :) I've gone the cheap n bought a 6x2x2 tank liao!! Hehehehehe!! here comes cichlid haven II!
ReplyDeleteI think one of those tanks in zoo negara was set up by my friend. Unfortunately, the zoo does not upkeep the tank well. Even my friend was disappointed when he visited it.
ReplyDeletesad reality man.... some were quite nice tanks, n yeah, noone to maintain. Probably need to get Takashi Amano to setup one of his mature tanks that doesn't need pruning :P
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