~ Happy New Year 2013 ~

Hallo Aqua-lover! A new year arise...here come 2013! how was your 2012? terrible? just forget about it and make a great new start. Awesome? then keep it up for your good job!

New year, new journey...Have you set your new year resolution? don't forget to write down own a new aquarium', 'set a brand new aquascape', 'visit the Aquarium' or any target related with aquarium in your to-do list!!

How about AquariumMalaysia? In 2013, AquariumMalaysia will do more exposure on Aquascaping, aquarium, pond, gardening, and as well as travel! Hope AquariumMalaysia can bring more benefits to aqua-lovers and share more about my aqua-journey!!

AquariumMalaysia wish you have a great new year ahead! blup blur blue....Ciao~

"Happy New Year 2013!"

How are you? High 5!!

Hi, how are you recently? Sorry for the no update for so long, it's because I have tons of course work need to complete in University. Besides, i am going to take a TourGuide License this December, so i have to be very well-prepared for this test as well! But no worries, i will be back soon and will update once i discovered any interesting thing happened around me!

Keep supporting AquariumMalaysia~ High five!

Alien?! nope, it is the Guitarfish!

What?! is that an Alien??

Alien?!?

 I cant believe that...lets observe it carefully~

 Oh...it is a fish in the aquarium...it is Guitarfish~ dont be afraid ya!

Close-up with this "Alien" (Guitarfish), seriously it looks like having a FACE.

The Guitarfish are Family of Rhinobatidae. The guitar are also known for an elongated body with a flattened head and trunk and small ray like wings. The combined range of the various species is tropical, subtropical and temperate waters worldwide.

Starfish (Cushion stars) - Patrick?

Cushion stars - the commonest starfish around the coast and we can found them in tidal rock pools. Cushion stars do 'wear' a wide range colors of 'shirt', from orange, brown, green,blue, purple....

Cushion stars have five arms (but some do have four or six), and they can grow to 10centimetres in diameter - about the width of an adult;s hand. When cushion stars is turned over, they can right itself by stretching out the tube feet on one side, anchoring them to the sea bed, and pulling.

What do cushion star eat? They mostly feed on detritus and invertebrates, which including live coral.

The edited version (Spongebob Squarepants)

"Hi, Patrick. Wait, I'M PATRICK!" (Missing Identity)

 And Spongebob squarepants fan, don't forget to check on PatrickStar fan page as well~

Spongebob bob bob bob...blup, blur, blue~

Stonefish - Interesting and Amazing facts

Opps, this is not stone. This is stonefish! it is a creature that hide from predators and get their preys by using it's special outlook, which resembling a stone. 

Ya, one of the important thing people wanna beware about is, while swimming in open seas, people do mistake it to be just another pebble and step on it, this is really bad, as this do leading to life-threatening situations. Why?! Because of the pressure applied by one'foot will causes stonefish to release a toxin substance from it gland. This poisonous substance is very strong and can causes pain and paralysis, if do not take proper treatment immediately, this can lead to death of the individual. So, when you guys go for your next adventurous swimming session, please take attention! 

Fast Facts

Scientific Name: Synanceia
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Scorpaeniformes
Family: Synanceiidae
Genus: Synanceia
Species: Synanceia alula, Synanceia horrid, Synanceia nana, Synanceia platyrhyncha, and Synanceia verrucosa
Length: Up to 50 cm
Weight: nearly 5 pounds or 2400 grams
Diet: Carnivorous, primarily small fishes and shrimps
Life Span: 5 to 10 years
Nature: Venomous, dangerous and even fatal to humans
Habitat: Coral reef, near and about rocks, mud or sand in tidal inlets
Range: Coastal regions of Indo-Pacific oceans and northern Australian waters

Interesting And Amazing Facts About Stonefish 

• Stonefish is the most venomous fish the world. It is also known as dornorn, rockfish, and reef stonefish.
• Though primarily a marine creature, some of the species of stonefish are also found dwelling in rivers as well.
• A stonefish, on average is around 30 to 40 cm long. Some stonefish are also known to grow to 50 cm, though the number of such cases is very low.
• A stonefish has two pelvic and three anal spines buried in its shell. The grey and brown coloured fishes have red, orange or yellow patches on their skin.
• Its name, ‘stonefish’, reflects its ability to camouflage itself with the help of its grey and mottled colour similar to a stone.
• Due to its camouflage properties, many a time swimmers, unable to differentiate between a stonefish and a stone, accidentally step on them, often leading to fatal situations.
• The only prevention that swimmers can take to avoid such poisonous encounters with stonefish is to wear thick-soled shoes and stepping very lightly in water.
• Its glands have neurotoxins at the base of its needle-like dorsal fin spines, 13 of them. The stonefish emits toxins when it feels threatened or is disturbed.
• The amount of injected poison, usually, is directly proportional to the pressure applied on it by an external object. It is an involuntary activity of the stonefish and serves as its defence mechanism.
• Depending on the depth of the penetration of its poisonous spines, the poison takes as less as 2 hours to kill a human being after driving him into severe pain, tissue death and paralysis.
• Once attacked by the stonefish, the individual is advised to seek a medical aid as soon as possible. Temporary relief from severe pain can be attained by immersing the stung area in hot water.
• Traditional approach of restricting the movement of injected toxin by tying a cloth or bandage is not recommended. The treatment involves intravenous narcotic analgesia, local anaesthetic infiltration and administration of stonefish antivenin.
• Once the venom is discharged by the glands it takes a few weeks to refill the glands back with the toxin.
• The venom of a stonefish is made of a mixture of proteins, like the haemolytic stonustoxin, the protinaceous verrucotoxin and the cardioactive cardioleputin.
• In order to reproduce, a stonefish lays as many as a million eggs. In the initial stage of pregnancy, the unfertilized eggs remain inside female stonefish’s body. It then releases these eggs on the sea floor, and the male stonefish fertilizes the eggs by releasing its sperm all over them.
• Once hatched, baby stonefish are released in water where many other fish prey on them. Out of this huge number, only a few survive to maturity.
• Major preys of a stonefish are small fish and shrimps. When they come across, it slowly opens its mouth and swallows them immediately. It just takes about 0.015 seconds to perform the entire attack.
• Bottom-feeding sharks and rays are its predators against whose attacks a stonefish is susceptible. The string of 13 poisonous spines then helps it defend itself in such encounters.
• The conservation status of a stonefish is that of a ‘Non-threatened Creature’.
• Indo-pacific regions have around 20 subspecies of stonefish.
• A stonefish can live for nearly 24 hours outside water.
• A stonefish has a very low swimming speed.
• One weird fact about a stonefish is that it spits water.
• Stonefish is an attraction for aquarists. It is commercially sold on a large scale as an aquarium pet.
• Japanese are known to consume stonefish as a part of their expensive sashimi cuisine.

reference: http://www.interestingfunfacts.com/amazing-information-about-stonefish.html

Chambered Nautilus

I would like to introduce a deep sea creatures, Chambered Nautilus Scientific Name: Nautilus pompilius

"Appearing to be a delicate creature, the nautilus is a brutal predator. Using 90 arms, the nautilus snatches up a shrimp or crab, passes its prey to its mouth, and crushes the crustacean’s shell with its beak. Nautilus will travel up to 1,500 feet each night to feed."

more information: http://www.seasky.org/deep-sea/chambered-nautilus.html

The Cute Spotted Garden Eel

Yes, let me introduces you guys a very cute creatures --- the Spotted Garden Eel (Heteroconger hassi)~

Overview

The Garden Eel, also known as Hass's Garden Eel, looks like a colony of seagrass.The main portion of the Garden eel is usually buried in the sand, and if approached, retreats into the substrate. Several of these eels may be kept together in a 100 gallon or larger aquarium with at least 6 inches of sand, a gentle current, and without aggressive tank mates. Decor should be kept at a minimum. A tight-fitting lid is required to prevent escape.
The Garden Eel diet consists of meaty foods and live foods such as freshwater ghost shrimp or small feeder fish.

Approximate Purchase Size: Small: 3" to 4" Medium: 4" to 7"

Special Threats and Management

Garden eels are the hardest of all eels to keep in the home aquarium. They require lots of special planning and care. These eels need to spread out, so the tank needs to be quite large because if the males are too close to one another, they will fight. The sand also needs to be at least one-half foot deep or the garden eels will hurt their tails by trying to drive into the bottom of the tank when forming their burrow. There also needs to be an artificial current to bring them their live food. All of these factors make garden eels hard to keep at home. Their population remains stable, but if too many are collected in the pet trade and sold in pet stores, they may decline.

Did You Know?

Sneaky snake eels dive deep into the sand, far from a colony of gardens eels. The snake eels then slither their way underneath the garden eels' burrows, attacking them from underneath.

Large triggerfish dive bomb garden eel colonies, digging them out of the sand when the eels try to hide inside.

In the wild, a small percentage of garden eels get a disease called blisterhead. Their head swells up much larger than their body. Blisterhead is caused by an infection from a parasite.

resource: http://sea.sheddaquarium.org/sea/fact_sheets.asp?id=108

Asia Home Garden

Today i went to Midvalley for "Super Home Ideas" Exhibition...surprisingly i get introduced to redeem some gifts, which are special water bottle from AsiaHomeGarden!

With 3 different cool design (Bamboo , Bonsai & Evergreen)

If you be at Midvalley, feel free to drop by the redemption counter and get these cool Water Bottle! It still not late! because the exhibition held until 17 September (Monday).

I just log on their webpage Asiahomegarden.com , that is a cool website with all about Gardening and DIY stuff! If you like to transform you home open space into charming garden, then this is a great channel for you guys! and don't forget to log on EasyPumpShop if you want to know more about water pump product!

~Wish you have a Green Week ahead~

Pony - Captive breeding Baby seahorse)

If you like to know more about Pot-bellied Seahorse , then u must not miss this post!

This is Pony, the baby of Seahorse. The baby seahorse is raised as they are born in its natural cold water environment.

Pony are the minature size of their parents and fed with newly hatched artemia at least 4 times a day!

Pot-Bellied Seahorse

Ahar~ here comes my special photos captured from my Aquaria KLCC journey.

This is Pot-Bellied Seahorse (Hippocampus abdominalis)
Distribution: Australia and New-Zealand

Fun Facts!

• The Pot-bellied seahorse is one of the largest seahorse species in the world reaching up to 35cm.
• Male seahorses are different from females by their crown, shorted snout, longer tail and BIG bellies.
• A male seahorse gives birth, making him the ONLY animal in the world to do so. (The BEST animal papa)

  He try his best to enlarge his belly to attract the girls~

 Sleeping~ z..z..z

wanna see how the baby seahorse? click here => "Pony Pony"

Wishing you all have a Wonderful weekend ♥

Happy Malaysia Day, Hari Malaysia!

Hai, 16 September is our Malaysia Day! This is the Day to commemorate the establisment of the Malaysian federation on the same date in 1963. And the celebrations are held at various parts of the country!

 “Janji Ditepati Rakyat Sejahtera”

source: http://www.tourism.gov.my

Aquaria KLCC - part 3

Hi Aqua-lover, i believe you have a good day today! and lets continue my journey at Aquaria KLCC.
In the part 2, the journey end with the Butterfly House and now i am moving on to the Oceanarium where you can see the creatures of the living ocean very closely. In Oceanarium - a giant 'aquarium', there are Giant Blotched Fantail Ray, Sand Tiger Shark, Green Turtle and many more.

The Oceanarium - This journey is experienced through a 90 meter transparent underwater tunnel and a moving walkalator to take you on your adventure beneath the depths.

 one of the shoot into the Oceanarium

 Cage Rage! - You can dive in with a custom made cage placed under the water, and do you dare to get close up with the sharks and other ocean creatures?

For more information: http://www.aquariaklcc.com/adventure/cage-rage

 The Aquatheatre - This is a-must-watch in Aquaria KLCC! you can see how the divers feed the fishes and how the huge and small ceatures in action. 3.00pm daily, don't miss that!

The Children were so excited with the feeding show...included me too!

After the amazing show...i went to "Weird & Wonderful", where you can see all cute and weird creatures of the deep sea. Photos? i will post them in future post.

Coral Discovery - a living reef tv! i wish to have such aquarium in my home~

 20 minutes before 4.00pm, i was already waiting in front of the Piranha Tank. Because i cant wait to see how the feeding of Piranha will be!

 Piranha - golden shines on their body

They can't wait for the food... 'we want food! we want food!'

O..O / OMG

I had recorded a video on the feeding of Piranha. i will post in aquariummalaysia soon as well. 

Aftert my Aquaria KLCC journey, i enjoyed very much in every part of it and of course i learnt alot about fishes, creatures, aquarium and ect. But the story of this Aquaria KLCC journey doesn't end yet...because there are still many photos and videos will be upload soon!! Stay tuned!!

Don't missed the Part 1 & Part 2 as well.

for more information about Aquaria KLCC:-

Webpage: http://www.aquariaklcc.com/
Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/AquariaKLCC 

add us in Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Aquarium-Malaysia/245377712246621

Cheers~ Blup..blup..blup~

Aquaria KLCC - part 2

Woohoo~ How are you today? Have fun? Welcome to Aquariummalaysia again.
Lets continue my Aquaria KLCC journey - part 2!! if you guys miss the part 1, please log on here => http://aquariummalaysia.blogspot.com/2012/09/my-visit-aquaria-klcc-part-1.html

after the electric fish tank, then i proceed to "The Stream" which you can see some fresh water creatures, eg: Otter, Water rat and ect...

the bathing fat water rat...they really fat~ XD

Too bad is, i didnt take much photo of them before i go to the next region "Jewels of The Jungle". 

In this region, we can see varities of Reptile, Amphibian and Insect...

 Gliding Gecko...gecko gecko~ look, he is so handsome!

 Chinese Fire-Bellied Newt - Yo~ High 5!

 Seriously, they are hyperactive!

Shhh, i am hiding myself~ 

i think it is sleeping at the moment, so i edited with some cartoon inside...nice dream~ 

Here comes the coolest one...

He even can fall asleep anytime anywhere..z..z..z~

Sorry that i do not take enought photo in this section, this is because either my old camera cant take a good shoot or i was so amazed by all of the creatures and forgot to take photo. There are more animals in this sections like, Souhth American Coati, all sort of insects, and Frog life cycle exhibit as well.

So after that i proceed to the level 2, where the real excitement getting started.

Once you go down to the 2nd level (The Flooded Forest - creatures of the wetland), u will see a huge tube-shaped tank full of freshwater fish!

 healthy fishes swim round & round in the aquarium

 ignore my ugly face XD

 two big-sized Araipaima

whats? huh..? whats at my back?

After that, my aquaria journey proceed to The Coast, where you can see some creatures of the reef. 

There are 2 tanks, where you can see the fishes from the top...

 and the fishes are very happy and healthy.

 ~Large Nose Boxfish~

It always seek for kisses...muacks!

After "The Coast", there is a small Butterfly House right before the Oceanarium. Inside the Butterfly House, you can closeup with so many butterfly...that is great! And one of the special feature of this Butterfly House is the room temperature is maintained in around 27'C to ensure the Butterfly live healthy and happily.

I like to touch Butterfly.

Alright, the next post of my Aquaria journey is getting more excited! i will go to the Oceanarium to see the creatures of the living ocean, and there will be a feeding show in Aquatheatre! (This is one of the most popular show in Aquaria KLCC) and also the feeding of PIRANHA~! wow! Stay tuned.

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Have a Aqua-loving week!

Aquaria KLCC - part 1

Hey guys! i have been visit Malaysia's best aquarium last week - Aquaria KLCC! That was an eyes-opened trip. I was really enjoy throughout the trip, the service was very nice and they are very friendly as well!

Reception counter @ Aquaria KLCC

The receptor is very friendly and he do remind me about the feeding show!

Entrance fees is affortable. 

Adult: RM35(with MyKad) ;  RM45 (w/o MyKad)
Child: RM25(with MyKad) ;  RM35 (w/o MyKad)

Senior Citizen: RM25(with MyKad) ;  RM (w/o MyKad)

*since i am Student, by showing my student card so i get a special discount with RM30 per entry^^
(so if you are student, remember to bring your student card for the discount!)

My Aquria KLCC journey started at around 1pm...

The first part of Aquaria KLCC is the Piranha Tank, just right after the entrance. I was just took a small glance of it T.T...because i get attracted by the Touch Pool O.O, which is a tank designed in DNA structure shape. It allow me to upclose with the Reef Creature. I was so excited to touch each of them!

 DNA Touch Pool

 I have no idea why they keep moving in the tank non-stop, but i am sure i was disturbing them that time. HAHA XD

 The soft cute sea cucumber~

Well explained of the creatures by demonstrator. So i try to touch this...Bamboo Shark~!

it is so obedient when i touch it, just like a cat. 

 It looks like a fake one? Believe me, this is real Starfish. 

(But not the one with blue and orange, those are fake.)

After have fun touching them, so i go to the next tank...the Electric tank! 

 Curious?? Yeah, lets see whats inside the tank...

 O..O Electric...Electric Eel! (Electrophorus electricus) its scientific name cool right? electro...electric~
Seriously, i have no idea why it is so cute (although others might says it is so ugly.)

 it do move its big body when i come near, perhaps it is welcoming me??

Too bad is i can't see the feeding of electric eel, as it only feed on every Monday, Wednesday & Saturday (11.15am), so i move on to the next station. Next stations are "The Stream" & "Jewels of the Jungle", its all about the creatures of the fresh water and the land-bound animals.

Part 2? log on : http://aquariummalaysia.blogspot.com/2012/09/aquria-klcc-part-2.html

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