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Puff-Faced Freshwater Snake for Sale!

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Cute juvenile Puff-Faced Water Snake (a.k.a. Banded Water Snake) around 25cm to be sold at RM70 (COD Penang) ! Easily identifiable by the pattern on its head (Baker, 2013), Puff-Faced Water Snake is a tame and non-venomous (Toxinology, n.d.; Weinstein et al, 2011) snake that rarely bites people. In the wild, this species inhibits freshwater ponds and stream, but you can keep them in fish tank with shallow water. It feeds on live crustaceans, frogs and fishes. Contact us if interested, first come first served!

Around 25cm

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Interesting fact:
All 14 species of freshwater snakes in Malaysia are harmless to human but the opposite is true for all 22 species of saltwater/sea snakes (Lim, 1990). Nonetheless, disinfection is advisable as for any animal bite.

Sources:

1. Baker, Nick. (2013). "Puff-faced Water Snake". Ecology Asia. Retrieved from www.ecologyasia.com/verts/snakes/puff-faced_water-snake.htm as at 7th August 2013.

2. Toxinology. (n.d.). Homalopsis buccata. Retrieved from www.toxinology.com/fusebox.cfm?fuseaction=main.snakes.display&id=SN1536 as at 7th August 2013.

3. Weinstein, Scott A.; Warrell, David A.; White, Julian; and Keyler, Daniel E. (2011). "Venomous" Bites from Non-Venomous Snakes: A Critical Analysis of Risk and Management of "Colubrid" Snake. Elsevier Insights.
4. Lim, B.L. (1990). "Venomous land snakes of Malaysia". Snakes of medical importance (Asia-Pacific region). Venom Toxin Res Group 1990, pp. 387-417.

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Update on Snails Breeding!

In the last few months, we have tried to breed the Sulawesi orange snails and Assassins snails , and here's some of the baby snails' photos!

Sulawesi Snails' baby

Assassins snails' egg

Preparing the Good Luck Marimo Pair!

The New Revolution in Aquarium Filtration System!

Okeanos e-aquarium proudly introduce you the Bactercel System Rotor's series aquarium filter! Bactercel System Rotor's seires aquarium filter is an submersible bio filter that come with compact design, the filter rotates when connected to an aquarium air pump and efficiently collect waster materials of the aquarium, it has three layer of filtration material including sponge, rock and a layer of compressed wire sponge, all are removable for cleaning.

Bactercel System Rotor's series aquarium filter is a product made in Japan, it come in two size, the smaller version "Rotor S" is suitable for tank below 39 cm while the "Rotor M" is suitable for tank between 39 cm to 60 cm.

Set Up Procedure:

1) The Rotor System will look like this once remove from the box, there are no other accessory in the box.

2) Remove the air stone which is located at the back of the system, put it aside first as it will only be use later.

3) Remove the black joint stick which connect the rotation wheel and the main body. To remove the black joint stick, gently squeeze the end of the joint stick and push it from the back to remove it.

4) After removing the joint stick, you can easily remove the rotation wheel. The rotation wheel itself can also be open to clean the sponge inside. The sponge can be replace by other sponge too.

5) Next, separate the main body to put in the air stone mentioned earlier.

6) The main body will look like the picture below after separation.

7) Put in the air stone and combine all the parts back. Lastly, connect the Rotor system to an air pump.

Our Discus and Angel fish's outdoor tank!

We would like to share some pictures and video of our angelfish tank with all of you! Angelfish are fascinating fish and they will come to greet you in front of the glass once they recognized you! They require large tank to thrive and variety of diet to ensure healthy growth! We feed them the Sinkable Discuss Food as staple diet and occasionally tubifex worm and water flea.

A true beauty among the fish!

This pair had bred in the past.

Feeding Time's Video

June's Megamall Exhibition's Photos

On June, we have been invited by Megamall Penang to attend their Mega Street launching on 8/6/13 and 22/6/13! We were very happy to have the support of those clients who came to visit us , thanks!