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Post by Nonn » Sun Jan 01, 2006 11:26 am

A large school of Homaloptera sexmaculata from the East of Thailand.

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Testing our new board. Happy New Year, everybody!
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Post by Martin Thoene » Sun Jan 01, 2006 11:53 am

wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh! :shock:

These are even better than the pics you posted on Petfrd.com.

Happy New Year and thanks for sharing my friend.

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Post by Jim Powers » Sun Jan 01, 2006 2:04 pm

Amazing!! Its always great to see these fish in their natural habitiat.
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Post by IMCL85 » Sun Jan 01, 2006 3:16 pm

nice pic :)
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wow...

Post by barbara » Sun Jan 01, 2006 5:54 pm

nice to see the fish au natural (i suppose that is spelled differently but...) anyway also nice to see you for the first time, Jim. : )
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Post by Jim Powers » Sun Jan 01, 2006 6:02 pm

Thanks, Barbara. Nice kitties :)
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Post by barbara » Sun Jan 01, 2006 6:19 pm

isn't amazing that we all worked together for so long and had no idea of what each of us looks like, our ages, or any of that....? well, mostly we didn't!! or do i mean most of us didn't know that about each other...
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Post by Graeme Robson » Sun Jan 01, 2006 9:31 pm

Superb pictures Nonn. :D


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Post by Jim Powers » Sun Jan 01, 2006 11:24 pm

Well, Barbara, you still wouldn't know what I looked like if Martin hadn't shrunk me down to avatar size. :)
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Hi Jim!

Post by shari » Mon Jan 02, 2006 6:30 am

Nice to 'see' you :)
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Post by Martin Thoene » Mon Jan 02, 2006 8:50 am

More pics from Nonn here:

http://www.siamensis.org/webboard/webanswer.asp?id=5341

Fab as usual!

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Post by prairieguy » Mon Jan 02, 2006 11:06 am

Awesome pics -- thanks! All those little smithi's on one rock, and not merely because they're in one of our relatively small aquariums!

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Post by Nonn » Mon Jan 02, 2006 11:25 am

Guys, sorry for the wrong ID, this is H. sexmaculata, according to the expert at WWF Thailand.

Btw, I woulnd't say it is common to see them congregrate in this number as in the picture. However, I've seen Homaloptera hanging out together in small school of 3-5 many times, espeacially in a stream where preferred rock space is limited.
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Post by Martin Thoene » Mon Jan 02, 2006 1:48 pm

Parralel threads Nonn!

http://forums.loaches.com/viewtopic.php?p=386#386

The fish pictured within the thread, you had ID'd as Balitora sp. :?:

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Sensational!

Post by Mark in Vancouver » Tue Jan 03, 2006 12:58 am

I'm getting Martin and myself some sound walking shoes, some unsound wading shoes, and some plane tickets!

Nonn - these photos make so many of us so happy! Please continue!

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