The ‘foliage garden’ at the Botanical Gardens had a nice water feature, and I can never resist hunting for critters in a water feature. Rather than the normal, native shrimp or anabantids that belong here, this pond looked like the result of a pet shop explosion — lots of fancy line-bred guppies and some other hybrid/domestic livebearers, all of them native to Central America.
I wonder, is Singapore so devoid of natural predators that helpless, conspicuous fish like this really have a foothold? Or is someone actively (yet meaninglessly) maintaining the fauna of this one pond?
