  Over the weekend I resurrected a very old passion. The long pond beside our house was finally up and running, and ready to be populated.
My parents immediately dumped twenty fledgling&nbsp;koi in, and realised that they spent most of the time huddled in a corner at the floor. The useless creatures.&nbsp; After several trips to a&nbsp;fish farm in pasir ris and a row of specialty aquariums in serangoon north,&nbsp;I came back with&nbsp;fifteen archer fish,&nbsp;five mud suckers, a pearl arowana and a silver arowana, two gar pikes, and what is known in chinese as a "white nine-fin dragon".
I realised that with every purchase the inhabitants were becoming increasingly carnivorous,&nbsp;and really, there's no escaping the past. I've spent the last ten years keeping almost every conceivable breed of freshwater carnivore available illegally in Singapore, short of crocodiles and pirahnas. &nbsp;Already, delirious dreams of clever pond&nbsp;partitioning are brewing in my head for an alligator snapping turtle, an indonesian fire-peacock snake-head, some Thailand leaf tigers and not to mention&nbsp;our decade-long family talisman of fortitude,&nbsp;&nbsp;the very alive and insatiable long-neck turtle who is now impossible to carry because he will stretch around and bite your fingers off. 
