Loaches Online Forum

the thread was Mr Tree's of their study of Kalimantan, but what i thought might be of interest to us are the location pics and the fish.
the pics are superb.
http://bbs.nature-china.net/viewthread. ... a=page%3D1

mick

Lol Mick I read through this while eating my lunch today and have just linked to it over the way. Incredible eh?

Very interesting! Thanks for sharing Mick. Some beautiful fish, I kept looking for the gastromyzons.

Check out this one as well!

http://www.siamensis.org/board/11698.html#41

there's some interesting rasbora species in there too

Tanja, did you see the nepthenes and CPs?

Nonn I loved all the pics but found the cf. balteata and Hampala shots particularly amazing.

Thanks! mickthefish and Nonn.

Pictures of your page always delight me,Nonn.

It's the site which is here from the past, so there should be a lot of people who know already in LOL.
But there may be a person who doesn't know yet, so the following site is introduced.

Some Gastromyzon
http://www.ibanorum.netfirms.com/Horst_linke3.htm

HEAVEN ON EARTH - BORNEO
http://www.ibanorum.netfirms.com/

There are much attractive Bornean nature and page of a picture of the river fish in this site.

Thanks odyssey, i've been on Michael Lo's site alot, his photography and location shots are always superb, as are his flora and fauna pics.

mick

Some very interesting behavior of Hampala from this locality. We were taking these shots in a protected part of the river, where a lot of tourist often come to swim. So the fish get used to people and they would follow us around as we swam or walked thus disturb the gravel in hope that we would splash out something from the substrate. One time, I fliped over a rock and found a little Schistura sp., and while I prepared my camera to take the picture of it, a large Hampala swooped in and sucked it down the throat before my eyes. Poor loach, one amazing moment.

Neil said the same thing yesterday on the phone nonn, he said they were like lightening getting the fish. he told me some of the wonderous fish that he'll be getting soon.
i'm going up to his shop in a few days i hope he took some good pics of the fish caught.

mick

Did he tell you the part that I hit his head with my casting net??? hahahha

no nonn, but now i know i'll ask how his head is and see what he says. haha

mick

Where theres no sense theres no feeling !
Best part was that by rebounding the net off my head we caught 5 pcs of the poropuntius ,
Better than most of the headers ive seen at Anfield Nonn
Hope my babies are still ok ???

helen nightingale wrote: Tanja, did you see the nepthenes and CPs?

Thanks for pointing it out. Amazing to see Nepenthes in the wild. Wow!

And the cat was amazing too. And the Halfbeaks. Wow!

Those Hampalas were seen making sucking movement on the substrate as well [on different trip]. Perhaps they know how to make a comfortable living in headwater streams where lots of food are hiding on the floor.