WAH!!!!! Guess what i SAW!!

[ranmasatome]

WAH!! today saw something at Macritchie ah!! There was this uncle there releaseing his Arrowana and i was at the wooden zig zag bridge....of course i asked him why he release he say the arrowana old already and its like "doing a good thing" of course....well....there are issues like releasing your pets into the wild...i wanted to say something but...i didn't in the end...afterward kena beaten. Anyway....i followed the arrowana and he was swimming on the surface a bit..then at around the middle of the bridge...i saw from the bottom a small school of snakehead babies come up and start nibbling the arrowana. The arrowana "shake shake" a bit and the snakehead fry all go away...but they came back....this time the arrowan pissed already and splash a bit....then like 2 secs later....from the bottom of the reservoir...this HUGE!!! Mommy snake head came up and WACKED!!(like really hard) the arrowana from the bottom at the belly there...and pull it down...WAH LAU!! Damn savage man!! i look at the unlce and he just walked away shaking his head.... i was like...WAHHHHH...Damn COOL!!..hahahahha.. oh BTW i think it was a gold crossback...bleh..

[vinz]

Sorry dude... I don't find it cool at all. Really sad story.

You should have adviced the old man that the good thing to do was give/sell the fish to someone who is willing to look after the fish. These fishes have lived in confinement for so long that they've lost their natural instinct to fight or avoid potential danger. They won't survive in the wild for long as you saw with your own eyes.

BUT... I understand your position... the fear of being whacked. Something, I'll admit, that parallyses my own do-gooder instinct sometimes too.

[Fei Miao]

That's sad man...

[juggler]

I think the uncle is going home with a heavy heart after seeing all this.

[plantmania]

Snakehead.... one of the super invasive fish. Good to eat though.



Image from this article, picture of fish caught in Singapore
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...nakehead_x.htm

[plantmania]

We should all give our thanks to "irresponsible" , "imature" people who dump fishes into our nature reserves... *sacarsm*

[hwchoy]

at least one species of snakehead is native to Singapore. although the bonytongue (arowana) is not recorded from Singapore it would not be too far wrong for them to be naturalised in Singapore since their natural range is in the peninsula.

[ranmasatome]

Well..Vinz...i kinda agree with you...i mean the whole thing is rather sad...i think i only find the act of natural predation really cool...i don't mean that the arrowana got eaten and so its cool...its just the concept of it and the action that i find cool...although in this case i don't know how "natural" this is. of course...on the whole...it is kinda sad.

As for what is native and what is not...well....that issue is one that can be debated for a long time...i mean...for all we know if people keep releasing arrowanas into the wild here, 300 years from now when they have extablished themselves into the eco-system..who are we to say that they are non-native?? its probably more a concept of time....neh...just my 2 cents...

[vinz]

No worries, ranmasatome. Sorry, I mis-understood you.

[|squee|]

Sad. The old uncle should have given it to one of the Arofanatics people.