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Hello all,
I spent the week before last collecting around Leticia, Colombia. We actually spent most of our time collecting on the opposite bank of the Amazon in Peru. Thought you all might enjoy some photos.
Leaving Colombia in the morning and crossing the river to reach Peru. The land on the otherside of the river is Peru.


We stopped at this hut and collected for a while. This is a small blackwater cano about 200 meters off the main river channel. We collected doradids, Corydoras leucomelas, Rineloricaria and Loricariichthys here.



A blackwater Glyptopterichthys sp.


Some of the doradids








My collecting partner was Jimmy. He and his family live on this "house boat." In the wet season they anchor their house in Leticia and in the wet season the house boat and the family float down the river and collect fishes for the hobby. The bottom story of the boat contains fish holding facilities and the family lives upstairs.



This is the inside bottom story where the fish are held. Jimmy specializes in collecting Corydoras spp. He recieves 20,000 Colombian pesos for every ONE THOUSAND Corydoras he collects. That is about $7.00 for 1,000 Corys.



End of the day... Looking back at Peru as the sun sets and we head back to Colombia.





-Shane

im not sure if its just my computer or not but the pictures didnt come up for me.

im not sure if its just my computer or not but the pictures didnt come up for me.

Fixed it.

Fixed it, somebody was trying to call up whole pages instead of individual images.
I think HH was also resetting what I had just fixed for a minute there.
It might be worth me writing a quick guide on posting pics.

Hi!
Wonderful pictures Shane ( as always)...
Reminds me when I was in Barcelos on the Rio Negro...
Cheers
Yann

Yeah, I love these kind of pictures

Then a question to Shane: Will there be a "Colombian diary" series, like the "Venezuelan diary"?

Great pics

Konig,
Yes, there will be a diary of some sort but I am not sure what form it will take. Possibly just a series of articles on the website. My Venezuela diaries are almost finished. I have edited and expanded them and also added numerous papers and articles that I wrote in Venezuela as wll as additional collecting notes that are not posted here. I hope to put it all together and publish a book in time.
-Shane

Mega bump here.

What did happen to these pics and Shane have you published this book?
I rekon it would be amazing to read about your exploits and such!

Not seeing any pictures

Probably because the external site that Shane used to share his images is no longer active.

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Mats

Sorry, the original post is over 7 years old. Few things on the internet last that long.
-Shane

Shane wrote:Few things on the internet last that long.

We do.

Jools

We do.

I was hoping you would catch that!
-Shane

Sorry, I cant see ant pics at this topic.

stephan333 wrote:Sorry, I cant see ant pics at this topic.

As you may have noticed, the thread is over a decade old. The pictures were hosted by a site then run by "clothahump" (Tim Beer) who soon after 2003 disappeared from the scene taking his websites with him. I think Shane still has the pics, and maybe (as this thread does appear to attract quite a lot of hits) he could edit the original post and upload the pics (which you couldn't do back in the day). But that would involve a fair bit of work in Shane actually finding the photos just so as to upload them...

Hope that explains the history a bit,

Cheers,

Jools

I still have all the pics. Would just need some free time to edit the above posting...

-Shane