A short fishing trip at the beginning of rainy season

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Normally, I'll stay out of water & go to mountain areas to look for plants during the rainy season which is just started. Since my friend, Alfred (from Europe) is here, then I brought him to catch some interesting fish such as freshwater pipefish.


Alfred is back to Borneo. Good to see him get wet in the water.....





The pipefish is a slow swimmer but yet it is found hiding under the submerged vegetation at the fast flowing water, near the riverbank. This is the habitat:





Freshwater pipefish, Doryichthys martensii.

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Hygrophila sp. (top) and Isoetes sp.





A local invented this fish trap & gave it to my friend as a gift. So, I borrowed this trap & testing it in the river. Fish food is placed inside the trap :




The fish trapped inside is Puntius kuchingensis:

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Next location is to collect Parosphromenus sp. from Batang Kayan basin.




Spending a lot of time only caught 2 adult fish......water is too high. It's too hard to collect fish during rainy season.





Loach, Kottelatlimia pristes:

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Close up:




The male loach has the second pectoral fin ray enlarged:





Last location......(a river where I never visited before) found Crypt. striolata again. A very big area of forest is cleared near the river.....maybe for planting the oil palm.





Tranquility......






More pictures will be posted soon (for tommorow trip).....

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The last picture is really nice! What is the significance of the thickened fin ray?

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The last picture is really nice! What is the significance of the thickened fin ray?

No idea.

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More pix on this link:

http://www.ibanorum.netfirms.com/kayanfredi.htm

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Last location......(a river where I never visited before) found Crypt. striolata again. A very big area of forest is cleared near the river.....maybe for planting the oil palm.


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Hi michael, nice C. striolata, This is taken with the water in the water? i think so, the water seen to be very clear. nice plant and well taken picture. The water is very cool? i was told this crypt need cool water.

Hopefully the clearing of the forrest does not affect too much to this river.

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Hi michael, nice C. striolata, This is taken with the water in the water? i think so, the water seen to be very clear. nice plant and well taken picture. The water is very cool? i was told this crypt need cool water.

Hopefully the clearing of the forrest does not affect too much to this river.

Yes, in the water. Temperature around 26 degree Celsius.