Mosquito boraras = boraras brigittae?

[stormhawk]

Choy, their aggression is pretty subdued compared to the barbs..

Anyway, for those who don't want to make the same mistake, here's some simple tips for recognising a uropthalmoides from a brigittae.

Uropthalmoides - body base colour silver grey with not much reddish highlights. body more stocky and shorter in length i think and they have the distinct exclamation marking on the body. in specimens kept in proper conditions, the marking will give off a brilliant greenish sheen rather than just black colouration.

Brigittae - body base colour dark wine red with intensity differing from fish to fish. more thinner bodied and longer in length. have distinct black markings at the base of their fins, especially the dorsal. exclamation marking exists but is more of a deeper black colour.

[hwchoy]

I find that the colour of the stripe, especially for the uroph is possibly a variant in the population. I have entire school and some have black stripe while others have greenish/bluish stripe.

[budak]

I must take issue with you seeing B. uropthalmoides as a "cheap substitute." Some of my favourite fishes are cheap stuff, including cherry barbs, B. maculatus, pygmy gouramis, kuhli loaches, any rasbora and of course B. uroph. The linking of market value with a species' worth is something rather distressing.... (I would be most happy to adopt your urophs if you deem them unattractive...)

But the bottomline is: Know your fishes, and no LFS can pull the wool over your eyes (whether on purpose or not). Better there be one fool than two.

[shadowfax23]

Hey, don't be so sensitive... What I mean by "cheap substitute" is just referring it in terms of pricing only...... If not, I would have used "inferior substitute". Don't get so worked up alright?

[hwchoy]

[quote:5ea23491b4="shadowfax23"]Hey, don't be so sensitive... What I mean by "cheap substitute" is just referring it in terms of pricing only...... If not, I would have used "inferior substitute". Don't get so worked up alright?[/quote:5ea23491b4]

yah I know what you mean :P

just bought some so called Boraras sp. today (not the same as those from Southern Thailand) which looks like big fat B. maculatus. Think I paid a bit more than maculatus prices, and for all you know it could just be big far maculatus. But hey, looks interesting and I don't care if I paid more.

[rocketshrimp]

Hi shadowfax,
I just bought 10 borars brigette at $15 from biotope...so, if the ones in mermaid are the same, I don't think you have been fleeced.. can't find the 10cents one for sure.

hwchoy,
where is tb ben?? I walked around the area around lim liat road but couldn't find any fish shop.

[hwchoy]

TB Ben moved to the same block as Keong Seong liaoz!

[kuching]

I hope I can find Boraras in Sarawak.....but no matter how i find,still can't find it. I got 2 choice...1 is come to S'pore & buy that fish or go to Kalimantan to catch the wild 1.

[Kross]

Hi Victri,

Really nice boraras! Especially the B.brigette. Hey guys, besides Biotope, any other lfs have B.brigette?

[ZaZ]

[quote:acf646e50a="kuching"]I hope I can find Boraras in Sarawak.....but no matter how i find,still can't find it. I got 2 choice...1 is come to S'pore & buy that fish or go to Kalimantan to catch the wild 1.[/quote:acf646e50a]

No boraras but can get R axelrodi. Right? That's one in my wish-list.

[hwchoy]

[quote:30954ae541="ZaZ"][quote:30954ae541="kuching"]I hope I can find Boraras in Sarawak.....but no matter how i find,still can't find it. I got 2 choice...1 is come to S'pore & buy that fish or go to Kalimantan to catch the wild 1.[/quote:30954ae541]

No boraras but can get R axelrodi. Right? That's one in my wish-list.[/quote:30954ae541]

Not R. axelrodi, they're in their own genus Sundadanio.

[ZaZ]

Sundadanio ... no wander I felt uneasy when I typed the letter "R". Thanks.

[kuching]

[quote:a91d04900a="ZaZ"][quote:a91d04900a="kuching"]I hope I can find Boraras in Sarawak.....but no matter how i find,still can't find it. I got 2 choice...1 is come to S'pore & buy that fish or go to Kalimantan to catch the wild 1.[/quote:a91d04900a]

No boraras but can get R axelrodi. Right? That's one in my wish-list.[/quote:a91d04900a]

I'm looking for blue variant f S.axelrodi.....in Sarawak....but still can't find it....damn.

This 1 ,i also need to come to S'pore to buy...or again ,goto Kalimantan to catch my own 1.

[stormhawk]

Was down at CS yesterday. Got myself some cute Boraras merah and true Boraras brigittae. Really small fellas but worth every cent I paid. Now I've got micros, merah, brigittae, urophthalmoides. Just missing maculatus and sp. Hmm.. now where shall I find these. Not going to take pics since Choy's already got some beautiful pictures of these buggers.

kuching, I saw some nice Sundadanio axelrodi.. "blue" variant with FEMALES.

[kuching]

[quote:c7bbf99ae1="stormhawk"]Was down at CS yesterday. Got myself some cute Boraras merah and true Boraras brigittae. Really small fellas but worth every cent I paid. Now I've got micros, merah, brigittae, urophthalmoides. Just missing maculatus and sp. Hmm.. now where shall I find these. Not going to take pics since Choy's already got some beautiful pictures of these buggers.

kuching, I saw some nice Sundadanio axelrodi.. "blue" variant with FEMALES. [/quote:c7bbf99ae1]

Really?!!I hope they still got the stock when i step on the "land of lion"....alamak....got to fly so far to get that fish.

[MrTree]

Many Boraras urophthalmoides were caught from Betta splendens biotope.

[hwchoy]

[quote:22b89be4db="stormhawk"]Was down at CS yesterday. Got myself some cute Boraras merah and true Boraras brigittae. Really small fellas but worth every cent I paid. Now I've got micros, merah, brigittae, urophthalmoides. Just missing maculatus and sp. Hmm.. now where shall I find these. Not going to take pics since Choy's already got some beautiful pictures of these buggers.

kuching, I saw some nice Sundadanio axelrodi.. "blue" variant with FEMALES. [/quote:22b89be4db]

biotope got a lot of maculatus. I am looking for micros though, where got?

[hwchoy]

[quote:eff9b7c4="stormhawk"]kuching, I saw some nice Sundadanio axelrodi.. "blue" variant with FEMALES. [/quote:eff9b7c4]

I looking for Sundadanio axelrodi var. ‘green’.

[ZaZ]

So Mike, which variant Did you get from Sarawak?

[kuching]

[quote:9ac0df574d="ZaZ"]So Mike, which variant Did you get from Sarawak?[/quote:9ac0df574d]

According to my info.,Sarawak S.axelrodi is blue variant (my MOST WANTED FISH)....but i searched for more than half year still can't find one...only found the light yellow variant. The worst, none of them can survive in my new tank...I think the water condition is still unstable for those sensitive fish.(another heartbreak)....The only solution:FLY to S'pore & buy as many as i can....