Singapore aquarium

[Brandon Khoo]

I visited the Singapore aquarium today. It's not big but boy, there are some nice fish in there. They have a school of GTs in the main tank which range in size from nice to scary. I was observing them for about twenty minutes. One of the fish must be pushing the six feet mark - I wanted to catch it!

The other amazing fish were their Arapaima which is a freshwater fish from South America. It looks like an elongated barramundi. Some of the fish were just gigantic and I think were over seven feet in length. I wouldn't even hazard a guess at the weight of these things. There is a stocked lake in Thailand where you can catch these and I understand some people have caught them on poppers!

[Wong Kai Zhee]

spore aquarium?

u mean the underwater world at sentosa?

[Brandon Khoo]

I think that is what they call it, Wong.

It is about 1/3 the size of Underwater World at Caloundra and maybe 1/20 the size of Atlantis at Nassau BUT it has a 6 foot long GT and a few others almost as big!

Probably be at AH after 4pm today. Heading home tomorrow.

[Peter Lowe]

WOW - that would be so cool to see, 6 ft GT in a fish tank - awesome. I must go.

See Brandon, not all the travel sucks.......

 

[Brandon Khoo]

I came back with one of the worst bugs I've had for years.   

[Greg Burt]

We might have to put you in quarantine on HI , but we'll take your arsenal of rods along to Marion for you, 

[Chris Tan]

 
Brandon's rods are already on board the Odyssey!

[David Noble]

Brandon...A mate's girlfriend does the marketing for one of Australia's big aquariums.
Apparently 2 of the night time security guards go sacked for taking fishing gear in and using it on the attractions!
I don't know how they got busted, but I think some fish ended up swimming around with hooks in places they didn't previously have them.

Can't blame them for trying 

Dave.

[Brandon Khoo]

Are you kidding, David? That's is just so funny if it is true.Those guys must be really stupid though. That was always going to be a reasonable possibility.

[David Noble]

Yes it's absolutely true...

Here are some photo's I took in Langkawi in January this year.  The floating fish farm had a few interesting things, including this trio of 12-15kg GT's looking very displeased about swimming in a 6ft circle for their lives.   

Cheers Dave

[Mick Cunningham]

i want one in my room ... the fish  tank