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A housboat is on its way far up on Rio Yavari.We take a smal seaearplane from Iquitos and meet it upside Carvala.Then we take it far up.

Jørn

Pleco from Ucayali



Jørn

Looking at the photos makes me think a biotope photo library would be handy on this forum rather than dotted all over the place on the site.

Wadaya think peoples?
It's easy for me to say that I know because I am not the one doing the hard work.

On topic I am seriously jealous of your experience and wish I could find some time to do this, which is ridiculous statement if you think about it.
One life don't waste it an all that.

Matt

Only a few days until we cross the Atlantic. I am having trouble sleeping

That is great you and the others are going Haavard....bring back lots of pics and new ideas for your tanks.

Birger

We have been here for 10 days now. We have been far up in Rio Nanay and its side rivers.We have cought discus, scalare, apistos, hoplias, ancistrus, tetras, corrys, tetras and much-much more.We started with Rio Diamante.Where we found Apistogramma and a Crenicikla that may be new.We also got a lot of big Piranyas and big chicklides we eat.In a small side river to Rio Diamante we found "Yellow cat corys". Plenty of them. WE also found a nice Loricaria to Norman Behr.
I have still not get "O.White" to Ingo but we have 2 weeks more.
After Diamante we vent to Rio Taxja and cought A.Huascare and Agazissi.

Pictures will follow as we sort out uploading another day.

Jorn

Can't wait for more photos! Hope you guys are having a good time!

Bach from 5 days in Rio Huallaga.We take boat from Juanjui.We bring bach this fishes:
Photo later.
Ottocinclus sp "Pin/White"
L-351
L-206
Ancistrus sp
Lasiancistrus sp
Corrydoras Orcesi
L.Filamentosus(Brown/red not grey)
Panaque sp "Shamper" L-418
Panaque sp "Papa"
Panaque sp "Ojo chico"
Apistogramma cf Eunotus
Apistogramma sp "Inka"
Pekoltia sp

Jorn

Sure it's L. filamentosus and not L. stibaros?

Jools

Jools wrote:Sure it's L. filamentosus and not L. stibaros?

Jools

100% sure. We cought around 25 of different sizes. Unfortunately mine died in transit. They seem to be very sensitive.

beautiful pictures & excellent fish! thankyou for the pictures!

Haavard Stoere wrote:

Jools wrote:Sure it's L. filamentosus and not L. stibaros?

Jools

100% sure. We cought around 25 of different sizes. Unfortunately mine died in transit. They seem to be very sensitive.

They are, that was my experience with them too.

Jools

Yesterday I arrived home with my fish. They are quarantined in 2x200 liter bb tanks with good filtration, aeration and a lot of wood. I am treating the fish with flubenol 15.

This is my list:
8 medium sized Panaque "shamper"
9 Very large L-204
6 Panaque "galaxias" Huallaga (very nice)
1 Chaetostoma sp. Huallaga
35 young Lasiancistrus sp. Huallaga
35 young Ancistrus sp. Huallaga
3 Cocliodon sp. Huallaga (not sure about species or genus)
4 loricaria sp. Rio Itaya
1 Hoplosternum sp. Rio Nanay
1 Peckoltia sp. Hullaga (L206 I maybe)
1 Large Pseudacanthicus sp. L25 (Tattoed across my back in Lima)

My camera is not working due to moisture damage, so it will be a while before I can photograph all the fish.

I will upload some photos from the trip this evening.

Tuesday 17/8-09

Our first and shortest expedition was along the road between Iquitos and Nauta.


The first biotope we visited this day was a small clearwater stream 77 kilometers out of Iquitos.
It was somewhere around here +- a kilometre






Our catch: Id of the different species would be nice if anyone has a clue.










We cought a lot of greenspotted ancistrus:


Our expert fisherman Alfredo:

After collecting fish in the small forest stream we drove towards Iquitos to fish in a small pond alongside the road. Under the road there was a large drainpipe with bats. They weren`t happy to see us. In the pond we fished tetras and small Hoplias.
There are no pictures from the pond because my battery became empty in the batpipe.









Baby Hoplias from the small pond:

The last biotope we visited on our way back to Iquitos was a rather muddy stream where we fished for something Alfredo called zebra peckoltia. It certainly seems to be Panaque changae. We have no pictures from this biotope.

Thanks for sharing.

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Mats

Awesome pics!!! Can't wait to see more!

Big Mouth.AA

Name?

Nice

Habitat

Tetra "Peru China"

Håvard with "Papa"?


Crenicicla


Jørn

Not Papa but P.Negro and Sutoni ovcause.

Haavard Stoere wrote:Our catch: Id of the different species would be nice if anyone has a clue.

Bujurquina sp ...I ll check for the species

Cheers
Yann

beautiful pictures of nice fish! excellent quality of blue eyed pleco!

Haavard Stoere wrote:

Wow! This is a little beauty. Look at its blue eyes.

?

Jools

Jools wrote:

Corydoras orcesi

?

Jools

Perhaps. I was thinking of .

what is that second from last picture? The one above the crenicichla?

nvcichlids wrote:what is that second from last picture? The one above the crenicichla?

Boulengerella maculata is my guess. They are sold as mosaic gars in pet stores.

c.orcesi is corect.they go in my fisrom.C U in Oktober.

Jørn

Her we couth Apistogramma Atahualpa "Orange" among oders.
















Jørn