Chew Thean Yeang (周天央) or better known as CTY Aquarium is the largest live fish shop in South East Asia. You not only see a great variety of fishes here but also many kind of exotic animals. (Address: 82 Burmah Road, Penang)

There are alot of beautiful fishes here but photo-taking is not allowed.

Yet, don’t know why, my cellphone camera automatically snapped this photo of a very big catfish.

I didn’t get the name of this species. It looks like a tortoise with thorns and a shell covered with algae. Can anyone help me on this? It’s weird! (Update: This is an alligator snapping turtle! It eats fishes! Thx to Ah Shui)

Didn’t get the name of this lizard too! =P

I hope I got it right. This beautiful snake is known as Green Tree Snake.

This species is called Indian Star Tortoise. Right? LOL. See, seems like I didn’t read their names. =P

Those Malayan Leaf Frogs are strange-looking! They really look like brown leaves and they seem to have horns above their eyes.

Albino frogs! I think it was the first time I saw this frog species.

Surprised to see a Sphynx at CTY Aquarium. Well, a Sphynx is a rare breed of hairless cat. Suddeny a guard told me photo-taking is not allowed. Then I realised my cellphone had been taking photos for me unknowingly for quite sometime. =P So that’s the end of the story.

I recommend anyone to visit CTY Aquarium. It’s like a little zoo with many beautiful fishes and exotic animals!

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lz said on October 26, 2008 4:00 am
Argh so sad the guard stopped u! X(
The creatures are sooooooooo cute!! XD Hahhah I love the way u describe them, especially the ‘frogs having horns on their eyes’!! XD
irvine said on October 26, 2008 6:16 am
i didnt knew there was a hairless cat! good job eunice. do it more often. hehe
wanderus said on October 26, 2008 8:36 am
I recently saw hairless moles at the Smithsonian National Zoo in DC! I wonder how they’d do with the hairless cats. =)
TNH said on October 26, 2008 10:09 am
how good if youo can sneak in you camera..then you can take a lot of good shot..haha..
Borneo Falcon said on October 26, 2008 12:54 pm
I never knew or heard about this aquarium before. Wish I had more time in my next visit to Penang. I wish I could venture to the Toy Museum there
dede said on October 26, 2008 9:04 pm
Eunice, we have similar big aquarium here in Singapore,.. what i mean is under water world!! its that comparable?..great pictures…
spoolartist said on October 26, 2008 11:48 pm
hahaha… sneaky sneaky you! well, if you probably told him it was for an award winning blog, the guard might have changed his mind… who knows, he might be one of the people who comments here! lol…
great interesting post, as usual!
dong ho said on October 27, 2008 10:57 am
wow! some species are unique. the tortoise with algaes on its shell is what i like the most in this set. im not good at determining these species as well.
thanks for the tour to the biggest aquarium.
Jasper Jugan said on October 27, 2008 12:31 pm
oh it’s in malaysia! i thought the big one is in hong kong
alex said on October 27, 2008 2:26 pm
the sphinx!!! i love cats but i find that hairless one freaky
Macky said on October 27, 2008 10:33 pm
nice place to see new species .. wow
dede said on October 28, 2008 11:33 am
morning eunice,..since you are working on travel photo blog,,don’t you consider about include other Asian place of such Thailand or Bali on your blog. I think there are lot of interesting things as well. sorry just a suggestion heheheeeee, have a good day..
eunice said on October 29, 2008 10:41 am
@Iz: Haiz… didn’t manage to take a pic of the sphynx’s face. My English is poor so I anyhow describe with my Eunish (Eunice’s English) LOL!!
@Irvine: Haha! I often do that, hope no one fines me. =P
@Wanderus: I didn’t know there are hairless moles!
@TNH: Haha! If I take out my camera, it’ll be too obvious that it’s a camera!!! XD Anyway seems that the lights used in the animals’ tanks are special ones cos the pics appeared blurry even I tried to take at different angles.
@Borneo Falcon: The admission fee to Toy museum is not cheap I think. CTY aquarium is free admission. ^^
@dede: A comparable one is Qianhu aquarium in Lim Chu Kang. In fact I also took photos from there but I haven’t posted them here yet. However, Qianhu does not keep exotic animals like the sphynx, indian star tortoises, and other reptiles.
@spoolartist: LOL!
@dong ho: My favourites are the sphynx, that dunno-wat-thorny tortoise and that Malayan leaf frog!
@Jasper: Hong Kong has a bigger one? I didn’t know that. This CTY is only biggest in South East Asia. =)
@Alex: Haha yeah. Wonder how a hairless cat feels like. XD
@Macky: Yeah =)
@dede: Thanks for your suggestion. I guess there are plenty of places that I need to cover on too! However I have not been to Bali before. I went Thailand many years ago and photos taken at that time were not digital. You can contribute your photos too if you want. XD
dede said on October 29, 2008 1:19 pm
Eunice, hahahaaa,.i wasn’t think of posting some photo in a blog,…if i knew that i am in “BLOGGING” now, i should take a lot pictures…and i don’t even know where there are been kept heheheee…
oh ya,.to me mybloglog and blogcatalog are no much different in term of log in. at most, I use mozilla firefox as my internet broweser. I left it with password enable, meant that keep log in,..so i dont need to re-log in. its ok la because only myself using this notebook,..heheheee…one awhile I its need to be refresh too…
eunice said on October 29, 2008 2:01 pm
@dede: Ic, cos I got more traffic from blogcatalog that’s why. Anyway they don’t help me much in term of traffic. =P
salingPUSA said on October 29, 2008 5:07 pm
Those animals look scary.or maybe I’m just not into reptiles and all those big strange fish….so this is in the famous place they call PENANG aye? Hope I can go there one day….
eunice said on October 29, 2008 5:46 pm
@salingPUSA: Hey what’s “aye”? =P Yeah it’s famous, South East Asia largest live fish shop.
Mei Wah said on October 29, 2008 9:40 pm
eh, got such building in Penang? i didn’t know about this at all…
p/s: btw, congratulations on your new blog!!! i visited it already and i had a good laugh… but i didn’t have any funny pictures to submit to you YET, but if i do, i will submit to you immediately!
eunice said on October 29, 2008 11:08 pm
@Mei-wah: Hey thanks for your visit! XD Waiting for your pictures!!!
Lifecruiser said on October 30, 2008 6:56 am
Wow! That is one huge fish store. The green snake has an unbelievable green color. If I ever go to Penang, I just have to look it up!
jean said on October 30, 2008 8:15 am
whoa! wish i could go there someday….
Cuckoo said on October 30, 2008 12:32 pm
Oh this is so big !!
I have seen many aquariums… some under water as well. But this one…
eunice said on October 30, 2008 3:59 pm
@Lifecruiser, Jean, Cuckoo: This CTY live fish shop is more than just a fish shop! =D
Forever HL said on October 30, 2008 4:31 pm
omg…
so many weird weird animals….
蕾蕾~
calvin said on October 30, 2008 5:31 pm
yuckie….that is one weird fish. looks like a block of stone. and the cats are just……undescribable. double yuckie…
阿谁 said on October 31, 2008 3:14 pm
dat shld be a alligator snapping turtle..
eat fish de…
very fierce n cut bite off ur fingers!
eunice said on October 31, 2008 5:27 pm
@HL: yaya alot of strange looking animals! Exotic!
@calvin: LOL!
@阿谁 : Wah! Clever boy ah you! I heard that name before! Thanks alot for your info!! Didn’t know it’s so fierce!
Mark H said on November 3, 2008 6:52 am
Weird critters. Mobile phones can be so difficult to control when they want ot take photos of interesting things!!
eunice said on November 3, 2008 11:35 am
@Mark H: yeah LOL!!!
denny said on March 30, 2009 4:49 pm
Lol i love CTY ,i went to there before !
denny said on March 30, 2009 4:56 pm
i will take the name for u guys lol …
Vijaya Krishnan said on January 23, 2010 1:33 pm
Rare and precious creatures…
Thanks a lot for extracting them from theirs to our universe…
haiti said on June 12, 2010 6:18 pm
wonderful
gawin davies said on August 4, 2010 7:17 pm
its a great and wonderfull place to do pets shoping…wonderful and great to be in CTY AQUARIUM PENANG… smiles

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