Fish keeping is actually growing in Singapore, driven by the aquascaping, vivarium and terrarium trend. One of the fish store owner told me that despite the growing aquarium interest, people don't really talk and discuss about their aquariums online anymore like the old days (as you can tell from the numerous old forum posts). He said that maybe the purpose of fish keeping currently was to rekindle with nature, ween off the internet and just relax. That's why nobody is online. When he asked customers whether they are in some online community, most of them said they are not in one.
I kind of agree with his view. Additionally, I get most of my information from google. There is so much free information available that there is very little need to ask anything on the forum. I also uses reddit for general questions and pretty much only use this forum for local stuff (like where to buy malawa shrimps ) Now imagine a small country with a percentage of locals hobbyists (Even smaller) spilt across multiple social media platforms...
Fish stores that don't follow the trend closes will get replace; it just how business work. eg. My local wet market fish store (Not even google-able) which is super old will probably close too...
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