Wild Singapore Pt 3

Field Trip 7 October 2007Casual trip on a splenden catching trip. One of the last frontier where wild betta still survived. The croaking gourami thrived here. In fact it's one of the biggest I have ever seen from those many trips. Possibly the food source here is plentiful

Some of the flora is simply beautiful to me. Never seen them before cos we live out of kampong some 30 odd years already. Enjoy the view




Mushroom growing on a fallen tree across the stream






A small stream and the main waterways

Road leading to the spenden habitat and biotopes



Some flora in splenden country
Star of the show, Singapore wild betta Splenden. Collected a few pieces

This is an overdue update after a hobbyist enquired on the Singapore Splenden.
This species was collected from an unused plot of land which previously seems like a small village (kampong in Malay language). The splenden was collected in a Military occupied place and this was actually out of bound. As I was only surveying, I figured it wasn't any harm taking a look. I can say from the surrounding, the habitat has been as it was at least 5-10 years of untouch human interferrence.

By Dec 2007, the splendens have grown, matured sexually and ready to breed. I managed to get a batch of fries from this few collected. The male is slightly different from the Imbellis collected, the anal fin is almost red all over whereas the Imbellis is more turquoise blue and the red distincrt anal tip.

Some pictures of the male and bubble nest

Hello Suparat. Hope you like those pictures. Thanks for viewing