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Post by Martin Thoene » Fri Nov 03, 2006 12:48 pm

Took some more pics today.........

Gastromyzon zebrinus

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Gastromyzon scitulus Note pectoral fin "fences" in male, absent in female. Leading edge of fin looks to be very slightly squarer in male, but no way as clearly as in Sewellia. I checked all mine today after discovering this yesterday. All of them have the feature except this obviously way fatter female.

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Pseudogastromyzon cheni Female. This one has almost no red in the dorsal.

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Gastromyzon ocellatus. Love the way their scales are so defined.

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Post by Emma Turner » Fri Nov 03, 2006 12:53 pm

Great pics! Particularly like the ocellatus. 8) 8) 8)

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Post by Jim Powers » Fri Nov 03, 2006 1:07 pm

Very cool!! 8)
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Post by Martin Thoene » Fri Nov 03, 2006 1:19 pm

Couple more G. scitulus.............

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Female doing her Plecostomus impression :wink:

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Oh, by the way. I've decided that I hate male P. cheni. I have lost SO many potentially great photos today because some stoopid macho cheni decides that just before my finger depresses the shutter, he will come blasting into the picture and scare the nicely posed subject away :x

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Post by Graeme Robson » Fri Nov 03, 2006 1:48 pm

Information lounged or is that logged into memory........ 8)

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Post by angelfish83 » Fri Nov 03, 2006 3:23 pm

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Absolutely exceptional piece of rock there. Nice fish too. :wink:
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Post by Martin Thoene » Fri Nov 03, 2006 4:41 pm

More exceptional geology......with things stuck on them...... :wink:

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Post by angelfish83 » Fri Nov 03, 2006 6:26 pm

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Those hillstreams are really gorgeous. And so fat!

If you're into rock with striations through it like that. Like the 'rainbow rock' that BA's sells, you can get it at about 1/10th the price at BETZ just up the road north of Finch on Kennedy on the east side. Its a big yard with rocks in it. Not much presentation.
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Post by Emma Turner » Fri Nov 03, 2006 7:30 pm

That first shot from the 3rd batch of pics is awesome. 8) Should be included on the species index. :wink:

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Post by Martin Thoene » Fri Nov 03, 2006 7:46 pm

Way ahead of you there! :wink:

It is quite stunning if I say so myself.

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Post by Mad Duff » Sat Nov 04, 2006 5:05 am

Stunning pictures as always Martin :)
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Post by dlenn » Thu Nov 09, 2006 11:10 am

We've decided that some of our Cheni and our new Wui are allergic to the Camera. One of our males has just become mature (we think) and has lovely tubercles. Every time I reach up to the shelf above for the camera he vanishes.

The females don't seem to mind too much. Though they can be flightly too sometimes.
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Post by helen nightingale » Thu Nov 09, 2006 11:54 am

Martin you make me wish i was assimilated
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Post by Jim Powers » Thu Nov 09, 2006 12:30 pm

dlenn wrote:
We've decided that some of our Cheni and our new Wui are allergic to the Camera. One of our males has just become mature (we think) and has lovely tubercles. Every time I reach up to the shelf above for the camera he vanishes.
I think they learned that from the wui. They are very shy fish.
By the way, I still haven't seen either of mine eat any brine shrimp...only bloodworms.
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Post by Mark in Vancouver » Thu Nov 09, 2006 12:35 pm

helen nightingale wrote:Martin you make me wish i was assimilated
Just you wait, Helen. It'll happen eventually.
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