Day 2 - Wrapping everything up...

Having seen not enough, I decided to go back once again to Aquarama 2001. At one particular booth I saw a weird thing, neon coloured Zebra Danios! They were in different colours, neon pink, green, blue and yellow. I was shocked at first, but with close examination, I found out that the fish looked terrible! Parrotfish were also seen in multi-colours at another booth.

<< Ohh.. my! This is very hypnotizing!

I hope they wouldn't create neon coloured Discus. Ohh... I don't want to think of it! With lots of crossbreeding, having neon coloured Discus would not help and it is not natural. It's kind of against Mother Nature.

>> What a crowd it is in here! You can see some of them are Love Tails. It's a mutation I think. No tail at all.

Once again I was at the competition area, this time looking more closely at the winners of the Discus competition. I personally love the Golden Melon from Chai Discus Farm. It won the first prize in Class 2 category. The red colouration on the body at the Discus is very breathtaking. It looks like a tomato, so cute! I went around the next row of tanks and I was back at the Grand Champion tank.

<< The Grand Champion tank

I didn't get a good shot with the Grand Champion yesterday, so I took more photos with it. This time it appeared in my picture. Haha!!! This is fun!

<< Me with the Grand Champ again! You can see the Betta section at the background.

Anyway, I had more time on hand so I decided to get away from Discus for a while and looked around closely. I was particularly interested in the Guppy section. Everyone knows that Singapore is a leading exporter of Guppies around the world. The varieties found at this section were plentiful. There were fully black ones and also some with thin lines like the Snakeskin Discus.

Getting tired I sped off to Chai Discus Farm booth, where I glanced through their collection of Discus one more time. I took a photo with Mr Chai, my "Discus teacher" and left for home.

I was satisfied and glad that the exhibition went well. It was well-planned and it was rather grand. But there was one thing that left me disappointed. I had in mind to take in some wild Discus. There was none at Aquarama 2001. Not even one for sale. I know wild Discus are unpopular among many breeders here in Singapore. I haven't come across any breeder who has wild ones for sale.

To conclude, I have something shocking to share with you. There is an aquarium store close to my home. In there, they have Wild Green Red Spotted Discus for sale. Do you know the price of one specimen? It's a whooping S$1000!!!!! Haha, cool huh?

Thanks for reading about my experience at Aquarama 2001. I really appreciate your kind interest at heart!

Yours sincerely,
Sam