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    White Cloud Mountain Minnow in the wild

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    Last Sunday, I went to Wang Zi National Forest Park with a group of fishy boys & girl. The forest park is located at the Hua Du of Guangzhou city, about 2 hours from town center by public transport.


    We paid RMB 20 entrance fee and the trekking trail starts after these few restaurants.



    In the pond of one of the restaurant, where they keep some food fish. I spotted some small fish....Initially I thought they were Mosquito fish because of the size! But closer look revealed that they were in fact well fed Tanichthys albonubes ! And of course it's reddish tail makes a difference.

    We started to walk.....quite slowly because my friends are PLANT person..

    and we saw this climber flowering! Mucuna birdwoodiana



    The Chinese name is 禾雀花 , looks quite alike!


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    The trekking trail is all the way along the stream..but nothing can be found inside. Not even a shrimp...wired...



    But along the bank, we found a few Jewel Orchid.



    And along the road, some other very small orchid flowers





    There were a little rainy, so I used flash till end of the day.

    Some locals were collecting this fern for makan...


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    Also captured three pc of skink...and turned out to be 3 species..released after photography session at the restaurant of course..

    Tropidophorus berdmorei, I think..got this from the White Cloud Mountain too.



    Mabuya multifasciata, I think



    Sphenomorphus maculatus, I think...caught with my fish net..and lost it's long tail..


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    Some insects...the pics suck...













    And only this one I know..Pyrobs candelaria


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    Nothing much in the stream, since we came here fishing, so we decided to turn back...only completed 1/3 of the trekking tail..supposed to be a 2 to 3 hours trail but we took 3 hours to complete 1/3.....

    Back to the restaurant, we asked around where we could catch fish but the answer was nagative..the owner of the restaurant even told me the small minnows are BABY of the big fish inside the pond!!

    So we came back to the entrance, then we stepped into water again..the flow is now slow..



    And BINGO! Damn swee!



    But majority were Parazacco spilurus, 4 big men only caught 20 pc of white clouds...



    then as we went further down, at the part where the bus stop is, we collected some Acrossocheilus parallens.



    And some Rhinogobius sp (Yet to determine) and a Pterocryptis anomala.



    Then came back took this.



    These are most likely released population by the government..but still WILD I must say..

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    the colours look much better than shop fish leh. steady lah mr minnow hunter!

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    Quote Originally Posted by budak
    the colours look much better than shop fish leh.
    Which wild caught fish is not?

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    Wowww.....that place also got lantern bug!!! My favourite!
    Wanna see Borneo? Just click...http://junglemikey.blogspot.com/

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    Quote Originally Posted by kuching
    Wowww.....that place also got lantern bug!!! My favourite!
    It's called "Longang Cichken" in chinese..so alot can be found on Longang tree. They actually appeared in early March, warm winter this year...

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    Beautifull fish(es)!!
    Especially the last pic.

    Here, fern (green) also use as vegetable, especially in Central Kalimantan. But one must knew the cooking technic, if not it will have taste.

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    Hello Mr Tree

    Amazing photography if you ask me, you are too modest
    I like Mountain Minnows very much, Last week I received some beautiful specimens from a fellow hobbyist. If you care to take a look you can see them in this thread I started on a local forum. There is also a very interesting story of how the fish got its name, please see link below.
    http://www.guppiesforyuppies.co.za/c...?TID=2393&PN=1

    Thanks for sharing your photos, they are great!

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    mine never look like this in my tank !

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    Wow. Very nice white cloud. Platinum colored somemore.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MrTree
    Some insects...the pics suck...

    Family Chrysomelidae.. i think






    This one i dont know.. can't see clearly...probably a Cerambycidae?? but not sure.


    Pentatomidae..most prob.


    Cicadidae


    Family Fulgoridae.
    And only this one I know..Pyrobs candelaria

    From what i can see... i've added the simple families they come from.. genus can guess but take more time..species have to look closer..

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    closer pls.

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