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Hi, I caught this Schistura from Pachy river, in western Thailand. Any idea which species this might be? http://www.siamensis.org/images/webboard_images/FishesPics_reply_114761.jpg We found a lot of this species, which I also cannot ID but found only one of the above species. http://www.siamensis.or...

Did the guys told you that when we went to catch the S. balteata the stream was already full of young fry? In my opinion, for all these small fish living in fast stream, the best time for spawning would be the peak of dry season and that would be during this time of the year or a little bit earlier....

Nice loach, one of my favorite. Now if I know that you can pick up fish from Neil's, there can be many more interesting thing go your way.

Thanks for the kind words on Aqua, guys.

I just met Hans G. Evers of Amazonas last week. I told him I felt bad about Aqua everytimes I saw Amazonas....darn I wish I can read German.

Thanks for the lengthy explaination Martin. I've been thinking that we have a better photographs of a few species published, and have been wondering why the editor selected those pictures instead of one supplied by LOL contributor. Anyway, it is one of the best fish book on my shelf and I'm honored ...

Where theres no sense theres no feeling ! :lol: 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 :wink: Hope my babies are still ok ??? They are all fine and I hope you head have healed. For the statem...

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

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 spla...

Check out this one as well!

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

They are hard to come by even in their country of origin.

US$0.14 paid to the kid just caught it from the river!! hahahah

ํYes, image was taken under water. Just rocks, gravel, and sand in the stream, and marginal plants, which certainly the Nemacheilus have nothing to do with.

This is N. ornatus .

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I just wanted to add from Blue's comment : Third, crushed coral, although already dead, is still a part of delicate tropical coral community and ecosystem, by removing it from nature sure effect the balance of the system in some way.

Hi,

Some of you already got it right, the loach in the last picture is Serpenticobitis zonata!!!