Start in the Middle or The PreRamble

I make no excuses. Logic gates are not functioning - no ANDs or ORs, NANDs or NORs - so we have this mess of input, throughput and output; this all-in-one enregistrement in that DeleuzeGillian sense of my fishy encounters. Thus created is the licence for me to go on and from nowhere towards nothing, with idiosyncratic hyperlinking. My assumption, dear Reader, is that we are so used and immersed in the hyperlinking, Google-searching condition that you would be un-lazy enough to go find out about the fish I refer to, or other obscure references. That would, in turn, privilege me to be the lazy one such that I would not need to strive to maintain accurate description of fish or have to explicate profusely. Don't take it personal, I just take this blog as a pet (haw-haw) project.

I have only two fish. For now. I have to be responsible, despite my already-given karmic transgression in keeping them. I tend to like 'ugly' fish (I prefer the term, "lookers") which tend to have maximum length on the maximal end of tropical fish size scale. Therefore, until I have settled where I'm actually going to stay put, at least for the next few years which in turn, would permit me to have proper tank setups that will be stable [The U-Boat Project or Unrocked Boats], I will care only for my plecos (these South American sometimes-armour-plated suckermouth catfish/the Locariidae family of the Siluriformes) and counterBorg the desire to assimilate more fish into my life.

It is better to specialise, since 'generalisation', in general, is often perceived as bad form and intellectually unsound. So I will focus on liking ugly big fish. Specifically catfish, but more broadly, The Oddballs (in aquarist-speak).

Here's my desirable-fish list as of this moment, not ordered in any way including classification:

1. Plecos, plecos, plecos (specifically from Pterygoplichthys and Panaque genera)

2. Asian catfish families (especially, the Bagridae and Pangasidae family)

3. Lophiosilurus alexandri

4. Wolf fish (and I mean the freshwater kind, Hoplias malabaricus)

5. Ikan betuk, what the Malays call the climbing perch (Anabas testudineus)

6. Polypteridae family (specifically Polypterus delhezi and the related Erpetoichthys calabricus)

7. Elephant nose fish, specifically Gnathonemus petersii

8. Black ghost knifefish (Apteronotus albifrons)

9. Fire eel (Mastacembelus erythrotaenia)