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Just a bunch of loach
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 11:26 am
by Nonn
A large school of Homaloptera sexmaculata from the East of Thailand.
Habitat.
Testing our new board. Happy New Year, everybody!
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 11:53 am
by Martin Thoene
wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh!
These are even better than the pics you posted on Petfrd.com.
Happy New Year and thanks for sharing my friend.
Martin.
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 2:04 pm
by Jim Powers
Amazing!! Its always great to see these fish in their natural habitiat.
Thanks, Non!!
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 3:16 pm
by IMCL85
nice pic
wow...
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 5:54 pm
by barbara
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. : )
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 6:02 pm
by Jim Powers
Thanks, Barbara. Nice kitties
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 6:19 pm
by barbara
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...
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 9:31 pm
by Graeme Robson
Superb pictures Nonn.
Graeme.
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 11:24 pm
by Jim Powers
Well, Barbara, you still wouldn't know what I looked like if Martin hadn't shrunk me down to avatar size.
Hi Jim!
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 6:30 am
by shari
Nice to 'see' you
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 8:50 am
by Martin Thoene
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 11:06 am
by prairieguy
Awesome pics -- thanks! All those little smithi's on one rock, and not merely because they're in one of our relatively small aquariums!
scott
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 11:25 am
by Nonn
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.
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 1:48 pm
by Martin Thoene
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.
Martin.
Sensational!
Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 12:58 am
by Mark in Vancouver
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!
Happy new year from here!