Cool, I hope it goes well
Some good information in this thread (and others by member "hoplo"):
http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/view ... =6&t=21883

They all look male to me. Females have a noticeably smaller, daintier, head.

Apologies for now posting this sooner but I've been blissfully off-grid for the last three weeks.
Alongside the catfish were some other interesting fish, like this anabantoid Luciocephalus pulcher and this as yet nameless Nemacheilus loach

"44–45 vs. 49–56" for the anal fin ray count, no? So 50 would make it . Obviously I should have read the paper before I posted the first time!

@Silurus I just looked through your paper on Silurichthys ligneolus (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261438764_Silurichthys_ligneolus_a_new_catfish_Teleostei_Siluridae_from_southern_Borneo_Indonesia) and I wonder now whether my fish were Silurichthys phaiosoma instead. I base this on the sh...

Silurus wrote:The identifications of the two catfishes are correct.

Whoo! Thanks very much Silurus, as always.

Wow. What is going on there. Did it flood overnight or what? Yes, quite epic overnight storm. We had another one two days later and that bench with the boots on disapeared under water too. Since we spent much of our days wading through swamps anyway, a flooded camp didn't make that much difference ...

Jools wrote:Great to see that fish alive assuming the ID is correct.

Jools

Yes let's see what Silurus thinks. Happy for you to use photos of course. Here's another one of the Silurichthys I caught them at night, swimming at the surface right in the middle of our flooded camp

The last couple of weeks I have been on an expedition into forest on the left bank of the Sungai Rungan, Central Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo). The substrate there was peat of varying depth and the water in the streams was stained like tea with pH of 3.5 - 4. Unseasonally heavy rain caused flooding...

dconnors wrote:Judging by the two dorsal photos I would say you have a pair of L30.

Aren't both photos of the same individual? Just goes to show how difficult it can be to sex fish from photos...

Wow, that is great news and some achievement. The worrying thing is that the licencing is only suspended

They must like it in your tank if they spawned this quickly. My first suggestion would be to add an airstone to the box. In my experience, P. compta often lay up to 40 eggs per spawn so hopefully there are still many in the cave.

bekateen wrote:Wow, that current in the Gastromyzon video must be pretty strong!

This is actually as benign as it gets because it had been exceptionally dry. After rain, the river rises by several meters and turns into a raging brown torrent within a few hours.

and some more (@BomNya)

Some more video

A bit of underwater video of fish-tank-sized pool, featuring Betta unimaculata, Systomus sealei, Nematabramis everetti, Osteochilus chini, Rasbora cf sumatrana, Rasbora cf caudimaculata, Rasbora argyrotaenia:

So then is what is being said then that the zebras and the wormline species have no common ancestor in the past. Is this paper saying there is clear genetic evidence showing that the wormlines plecos in the Xingu are not related to zebras at all but are likely all the same species. I understand the...

With clean water and generally healthy living conditions the barbels should grow back. From what you write, I'd say your most immediate concern is a filter that is not yet mature so you will have to keep a very close eye on water quality and restrict feeding to a minimum. Secondly, as you are aware,...

I think that it would be worthwhile thing to do something like Species distribution modelling or Environmental niche modelling (something that is mostly applied to predicting responses to climate change: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_niche_modelling) to predict the impact of the dams o...

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backstreetgambler wrote:Don't hold back man. Swamp away. I for one love these threads

A second to that!

And another one....

Anyone got any thoughts on the cyprinids in the previous posts? On to the Balitoridae... Great little fish to observe and photograph in their natural habitat. Gastromyzon cf ornaticauda http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j395/panaqolus/Sungai%20Setulang%20Jan%202016/P1090229.jpg http://i1083.photob...

Some more cyprinids (in this part of the world, it seems there are always more cyprinids...) Hampala macrolepidota (apologies for background clutter) http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j395/panaqolus/Sungai%20Setulang%20Jan%202016/P1080190.jpg Tor sp. http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j395/panaqo...

A few more cyprinids.... Systomus cf banksi??? http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j395/panaqolus/Sungai%20Setulang%20Jan%202016/P1090262.jpg http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j395/panaqolus/Sungai%20Setulang%20Jan%202016/Systomus%20sp%20a%201.jpg I'm doubtful because I can only see one pair of ba...

Thanks Silurus. "Glossogobius sp." it is for now then.

I was surprised to find this 20cm goby this far inland in the headwaters. But then again, what do I know? The first specimen regurtitated a semi-digested Rasbora after it was captured. Locally it is known as "ikan pasir" which means sand-fish. Going by Inger and Chin (1962) I'd call it Glo...

On to the Betta species... This first was found in a small but relatively deep (80cm) pool in <1m wide stream that was mostly not more than a few cm deep. I believe it is B. ocellata http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j395/panaqolus/Sungai%20Setulang%20Jan%202016/Betta%20unimaculata%202-1.jpg and a...

Some Rasbora next: R. argyrotaenia (or similar...) http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j395/panaqolus/Sungai%20Setulang%20Jan%202016/P1080121.jpg I don't have a name for this one http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j395/panaqolus/Sungai%20Setulang%20Jan%202016/Rasbora%20sp%20a%201.jpg R. cf sumatran...

After studying the pics of the second Glyptothorax closely, and comparing it with the images in my manuscript, I conclude that it is not G. major , but another unnamed (and to-be-named) species. I wish you had kept specimens, as I only have the putative holotype (and more is always better). I wish ...

Panaque, Thanks for posting those pics!!!! That Garra looks to be the real G. borneensis. The Caudal fin has strong black band on upper and lower rays, four transverse scale rows above lateral line, and it looks like the tip of the first branched dorsal ray would not pass the last branched ray when...

Isn't there the book on the freshwater fishes of western Indonesia and Sulawesi by Kottelat et al. (1993)? That said, a (very much) revised edition is in the works (I think I am supposed to have a hand in it). I tried but failed so far to get hold of a copy of this book. I contacted Maurice Kottela...