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By the way, these images really shows how the loaches devided their ecological ninche. The Schistura at the sand and gravel bottom of the stream, the Balitora on the rocks in fast flowing area and the Lepido in the still water silty part of the stream.

http://www.siamensis.org/new/images/webboard_images/TravelPics_post_06222.jpg From Klong Larn National Park, KamphangPhet Prov. http://www.siamensis.org/new/images/webboard_images/TravelPics_reply_05351.jpg http://www.siamensis.org/new/images/webboard_images/TravelPics_reply_05353.jpg http://www.si...

I currently have 2 of this loach in my big community tank, together with all the cyprinids and botidae, including B. sidthimunki, they seems to co-exist well with all other fish. Only fight to each other once in a while. Other wise, they doesn't seem to bother others fish.

Mr. Lerdsuwa thanks for bringing the link to this forum. These pictures are from the second Suriya River survey. We went full-team this time, and managed to get atleast 5 new species and 1 new family record for Thailand and very much likely a few new fish species not known to sciene. Better yet, the...

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The total distance from where we parked our car at the last ranger station and the closest paved road is approx. 85 km., yet it took us about 8 hours to drive, that is how we get back up those hill. :D Yes Martin that is exactly how its work, the woman is using that tool as a rice mill. I will post ...

mikev wrote:Great pic.... If I may ask: what is the topfeeder on the right? Blackline rasbora?

A Poropuntius...I'm not sure what species it was as I couldn't capture any.

Btw, can you see B. kubotai and B. berdmorei in the picture?

Probably the fisrt underwater shot of one of the most popular loach around. This is Suriya River (The Sun River) which originate in Thailand and flow north to meet Salween river in Myanmar. It is one of the most remote and most difficult to access river in Thailand. From Bangkok I have to drive 5 ho...

Most of the cave fishes in Thailand are protected species, included the Schistura spiesii in Martin's post. I have spent many hours in various cave fish habitat, sometimes alone and I would say that they doesn't seem to do much. I mean, this is only a few hours observation. Most cave Schistura , in ...

Keep them in school of at least 5, this is how they live in nature. The upper fish can be medium size Cyprinids like Devario, medium size Puntius like the sp. Odessa and Tigerbarb, Danio maybe a little bit too small. Keep in mind that this is one of the most aggressive loach out there and they maybe...

Being in the tropic, all source of live-foods are available to me at cheap price. I feed my fish with mostly frozen blood worm and about once or twice a week they get dancing adult brine shrimp. If it is really picky them I drop in live tubiflex worm with a risk of introducing disease with it.

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 wh...

A large school of Homaloptera sexmaculata from the East of Thailand. Habitat. http://www.siamensis.org/images/webboard/11200692522.jpg http://www.siamensis.org/images/webboard/112006233214.jpg http://www.siamensis.org/images/webboard/112006233245.jpg Testing our new board. Happy New Year, everybody!