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Thread: Lian Hua Mountain near Haifeng town, Guangdong

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    Lian Hua Mountain near Haifeng town, Guangdong

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    On 26th March,my friend and me visited the habitat of black paradise fish (Macropodus hongkongensis) in Shanwei city. I left Guangzhou to this area for something else 3 days ago, and it actually started raining on my day of departure. Two big enough man struggled the whole afternoon here but without much fish...got some same fish as my last visit..

    This is probably Xenocypris argentea, not sure, all these silverish fish are hard to id....



    didn't really take out my camera but somehow took this nice bug..



    After that we moved to Haifeng to stay overnight, and get ready to visit the Lian Hua mountain on the next day.

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    Still raining when we woke up, no choice we took triclycle to Lianhua town, then changed to motor bike, and after 20 mins in the rain, we finally reached this stream..



    This is considered very good environment.....



    We easily caught some Parazacco spilurus, in it's breeding color.



    Soon we caught some Rhinogobius, but not sure which species yet. Will be taking pictures in my tank.

    And mini soon hock..Odontobutis haifengensis, this is the type locality



    We also observed some Acrossocheilus sp, should be A. beijiangensis or A.parallens.

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    In the rapid, we caught the endemic(probably not) Pseudogastromyzon laticeps, the dorsal and caudal fin is red!



    Also the nice Glyptothorax pallozonum.



    And I caught Cobitis sinensis in the fallen leaves



    Lasty caught Nicholsicypris normalis



    And Hypseleotris compressocephalus, the male is actually very nice..


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    We didn't really prepare for this collection trip..I didn't bring photo tank, camera flash and GPS..didn't bring my usual fishing attire too..

    Around noon, we decided to stop, but got damn hungry but didn't bring any bread along.....there was no one around, so we followed a small path and found a pig farmer...hoping they could spare some food, but surprising the female master was just having the lunch alone!



    Teo Chew ppl are really friendly......I ate two bowls of rice and my friend ate three..



    After the luch, we tried our luck in the pond of this house, caught some Oryzias curvinotusand Puntius semifasciolatus

    and lastly the master refused to take the RMB20 we gave....

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    As we kept walking...

    saw a small village...not so old Teo Chew style building..



    havnt' start to plant yet..



    after a long walk, we reached another stream..



    Caught some Carassius auratus (wild goldfish!) and Tilapias....

    Also an Anabas testudineus



    Also a lot of Zacco platypus,



    also in breeding color...damn swee


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    Also nice Traccatichthys pulcher



    And pretty common & widely spread Schistura fasciolata



    Pterocryptis anomala



    We caught some Rhinogobius giurinus, which is a very very common low land goby...it's also being introduced to Singapore water...

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    the stream was rich in aquaric plant..
    Blyxia sp



    Mayaca sp



    Bacopa sp



    Rotala or submersed form of above?


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    Lastly, we walked downstream to the main stream, Da Dao river,



    And we picked up the leaves of Cryptocoryne on the river bank!!!



    It was a little late, but no choice got to find the population...

    After walking up a few hundred meters, we finally found it..should be pretty common in Guangdong province but it was my first time seeing it in the field...



    In the rain, and water was milky..so this is the best i could get..



    Brought back 4 plant..shoud be Cryptocoryne crispatula var flaccidifolia..so common plant..



    Fruit



    so happy....best ending...



    Somehow we made it to the main road, waited long for a motorbike to pass by, then another 30, 40 mins back to Haifeng town...my friend took bus to Shanwei to ahead to Shantou for some business, but I caught up the bus back to Guangzhou...272 km.....

    We collected 24 species of fish, considered pretty good...but weather was bad, water was still cold....we walked about 15 km in the rain after all...was quite a hard experiece....and damn on the next day i came back to GZ, the sun came out.....will come back to this area in June!

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    time to pack the fish in a breathable and send to our azmi logistic depot.
    why I don't do garden hybrids and aquarium strains: natural species is a history of Nature, while hybrids are just the whims of Man.
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    That bug is likely to be a lygaeid or some mirid.. hard to tell though since the antenna is blur and i'm not familiar with Species in china.. and the family is soooo dam diverse.. haha..

    Damn nice pics.. and ya.. i think teo chew pple are friendly..kekeke

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    we need some pix of the teo chew daughters
    why I don't do garden hybrids and aquarium strains: natural species is a history of Nature, while hybrids are just the whims of Man.
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    yeah... teochew pple are v. friendly one ... and the language has got a sing song light tone... ever tune in to teochew operas? ... give it a try...

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    Couldn't really take pictures..wanted to try out my 100 - 300 mm..

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    Lao Zhong!

    Some great photos there and thanks for sharing man! So any good shots with the 100-300 mm lens? That's a great lens and was one of my travelling favorite!

    Cheers,
    I have dwarf cichlids in my tanks! Do you?

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    wow how did u manage to identify those fishes so easily with the scientific names

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    Quote Originally Posted by rtcc86
    wow how did u manage to identify those fishes so easily with the scientific names
    he burned a lot of those description papers, mix the ash with aquarium water and drink loh.

    why I don't do garden hybrids and aquarium strains: natural species is a history of Nature, while hybrids are just the whims of Man.
    hexazona · crumenatum · Galleria Botanica

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    Wow. That's one impressive trip with some beautiful fish and plants.
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    MrTree, how come never get any shrimps?
    why I don't do garden hybrids and aquarium strains: natural species is a history of Nature, while hybrids are just the whims of Man.
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    Nice field trip "report"!!!
    Wanna see Borneo? Just click...http://junglemikey.blogspot.com/

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    Quote Originally Posted by hwchoy
    MrTree, how come never get any shrimps?
    Got a few species of shrimps & crabs but didn't bring back...didn't take pictures because of the weather...big damage to my equipments man..

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