pictures of a habitat in sabah with neogastromyzon sp

[ch.koenig]

hi
here the pictures taken in sabah by pascal sewer in august. the place is at kota maradu




and that's what comes with. do you know names?



this one is special: a fish eating mantis. no joke!!!



that's all for the moment.
cheers charles

[OneWay]

amazing photos and I am officially jealous

[Matt]

Fantastic images and love the mantis. The Betta should be B. ocellata and the fish in the pic to the left of it looks like an Esomus sp. I think the weird-looking one on somebody's hand might be a Neostethus??

[ch.koenig]

thanks for the help
the betta is ocellata. ps has plenty of and I bougt some. they are as large as 12 cm, great predators. I have posted a picture somewhere.

[Jim Powers]

Great pics!!
I would love to find some of those neogastromyzons
some day. I always looking to see if I can find one that has hitched a ride in a shipment of gastromyzons.

[plaalye]

So much interesting stuff lately, Thanks Charles!! Keep it coming.

Great pics!!
I would love to find some of those neogastromyzons
some day. I always looking to see if I can find one that has hitched a ride in a shipment of gastromyzons.

Me too Jim. I check every shipment of "Borneo suckers" that my LFS gets but so far nothing new.

[Emma Turner]

Great pics. The Neogastromyzon are really special.

Emma

[ch.koenig]

thanks emma
yes I do the same. a have one LFS where I found viriosus (one after one) or the last zebrinus, for them I'm the "flossensauger-jäger" ("bellysucker-hunter"). as long as I can't change the mix-situation I try to enjoy it. but now it's becoming even better: one of them is importing from singapur directly. we'll see!

about the id: I just got an idea in a mail by H.H.Tan: the neogastromyzon could be a protomyzon. this one could fit

http://fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSumm ... whiteheadi

but: nothing is clear about this group of suckers. so we wait for a revision

cheers charles

[odyssey]

Great information!

Gastromyzon, Pseudogastromyzon, Sinogastromyzon, Hypergastromyzon are already kept.
Neogastromyzon has not yet watched the real thing.

I wait expectantly for Neogastromyzon being imported.

Thank you very much for valuable information.

[Mad Duff]

Wonderful photos

The Neogastromyzon are lovely fish, I have only ever had one of what was thought to be Neogastromyzon but I never managed to get it positively ID'ed.

[piggy4]

Just a wild guess at some of the other fish ?

Pic 1 Nematabramis sp/ ?

Pic 4 Puntius Binotatus ?

Pic 5 Essomus Danrica ?

[ch.koenig]

thanks for the guesses piggi4
frankly: I have no idea about the species
I hoped for the specialists. in augst I may go over the lists in some books to veryfy.
cheers charles