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Hi all,
Hope everyone’s having a great day. As for me.. well down with flu and cough.. just one of those days..

Anyway, have created a new video for you.. I’ve not updated anyone about my 5 golden arowanas for a while now. They are doing fine! Still fighting amongst themselves though but this is expected. Have good appetite but been getting flak from my wife because of the smell in the water especially if you leave uneaten food in there for too long. So now what I do is when I feed them, I will open the back door and windows and also take out all uneaten food within 30 min. This will help to air the place and get rid of whatever smell that could be lingering because of the prawns that I feed them.

Cheers!
Steven

Hi all,
On 16 October 2006, (yes a long time ago. ) I published a post on my blog about a lawsuit that took place then when an arowana farm in Singapore sued a construction company for $1M.

Please refer here – arowana lawsuit for the original story.

Here is the final chapter in the court case. (only the damages has not been decided by the courts yet.) Please refer to courts decide on arowana lawsuit for the full story.

If for any reason you cannot access that story, I have posted it in full below anyway.

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Feb 22, 2008 The Straits Times by Selina Lum

Appeal court tackles ‘fish and chips’ case
Contractor loses appeal over dead arowanas

A CASE about ‘fish and chips’ came before Singapore’s highest court on Friday.
A construction firm was appealing against the decision of a lower court, which had found that it was liable for the deaths of 31 prized arowanas at a fish breeding farm.

When the firm’s lawyer, in raising doubts about the number of dead fish, referred to the microchips implanted in the arowanas, an appeal judge quipped: ‘It’s a fishy case about fish and chips.’

At the end of the hearing, the Court of Appeal decided that the firm, Lian Shing Construction, was liable for one less fish.

The fish in question had died four months after the bulk of the arowanas perished. It had been sent, close to the death, to the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) for tests.

An autopsy found that it had chronic liver and kidney disease. Arowanas cost between $500 and $10,000 each depending on age, size and breed, say fish enthusiasts.

OTF Aquarium Farm’s lawyer told the court on Friday that some fish can fetch as much as $70,000 each.

The saga began in 2002, when Lian Shing was subcontracted by the Public Utilities Board to carry out drainage works at an area bordering the farm at Pasir Ris Drive 12.

PUB had received feedback that the drainage reserve area was soggy and carried a risk of mosquito breeding. OTF breeds tropical fish for the domestic market as well as for export to China, Taiwan and Japan.

After the works started, the fish farm suffered flooding during heavy downpours. The floodwaters flowed into one of its fish ponds on a few occasions between Dec 2002 and Feb 2003.

A total of 42 arowanas in the pond died over the next six months.

In 2005, OTF sued Lian Shing for negligence, seeking damages for the 42 dead arowanas, loss of future income from breeding the fish, and repairs to the pond. It alleged that the construction firm?s works had caused the flooding.

The court, which also comprised Chief Justice Chan Sek Keong and Judge of Appeal Andrew Phang, dismissed the appeal. A separate hearing will be held months later to assess the damages.

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Please let me know your thoughts below here if any. Can’t imagine if more ponds were polluted and more arowanas died! PAINFUL exercise!!!

Steven

Hi all,

Before I start I would like to wish all my Chinese readers a Happy Chinese New Year. May the year of the Rat bring you wealth, health and prosperity in 2008!

I am actually back in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia to celebrate the new year with my family. It’s good to be back with your loved ones during the holidays! It’s also pretty quiet here during Chinese New Year because everyone’s gone back home for the festive season. Good time to go shopping though.. Less crowd and all!

Anyway, I have uploaded another video for your viewing pleasure. Ok this is not about Arowanas BUT Goldfish! I actually took some photos of them during a goldfish competition held recently in Singapore. (24-27 Jan08 to be exact.) They are really beautiful.. so I thought I’d share them with you.

So without further ado… here they are!

Steven
PS. As usual, do let me know what you think! Cheers!

Hi all!
Happy 2008 and hope that you did not get too drunk ushering in the new year! As for me, I had a noisy new’s year eve at home with some close and noisy friends eating and drinking till the very very early morning! Glad the neighbours did not call the cops!
Also had some great fun playing Nintendo Wii and this new game called Wii Fit! Real cool! You should try it!

Anyway, just wanted to let you know that I created a new VIDEO site thats dedicated to AROWANAS ONLY! This will save you time trying to find cool arowana videos on the internet! Everytime you go there, you will see the latest arowana videos posted on youtube!
Please check it out here … Arowana Video Site

Let me know what you think of the site! I really hope that you will like it! Ciao and talk to you soon!

Steven