Couple of interesting finds in Wu Hu aka TB Ben

[avant]

Saw quite a few interesting stuff at Wu Hu on Sunday.

couple of loaches -
Botia striata
Homaloptera smithi
Schistura mahnerti
Yasuhikotakia sidthimunki - juveniles

Microctenopoma ansorgii
Parasphaerichthys ocellatus

Also saw some gars, corydoras, pipefish

[griffinkid]

I saw some Gold Pencils and bought a trio of them. I wonder if anyone knows the scientific name for that? Couldn't find it through google

[RonWill]

You can find anything on Google. Gold Pencilfish should be Nannostomus beckfordi.

[griffinkid]

Unfortunately its not beckfordi. That would be golden pencilfish. Im still trying to find out the fish's true identitiy haha :/

[stormhawk]

Take a picture and let us identify it.

[Ariel]

gold or golden , got difference? Can show some pictures

[griffinkid]

They swim very fast and its very hard for me to take a decent photo Will try!

[RonWill]

Try freezing it in the freezer... that ought to "slow" them down...

heh... skewed sense of humor before my first cuppa of caffeine...

[lucasjiang]

if it swims at an angle, it should be nannostomus eques. If it has three lines, it should be nannostomus marginatus, the three-lined pencilfish. Both of these, and nannostomus beckfordi are normally sold at wuhu.

[illumnae]

3-lined is Nannostomus trifasciatus. Dwarf pencilfish (which also has 3 lines but is shorter in body length + stockier in build) is N. marginatus

Another commonly available one locally is N. unifasciatus, the One-Lined pencilfish

[barmby]

ahem.. pictures by our moderator







These people has done so much for the forum. Everything is free especially the knowledge. Just take it..

[icefire]

sorry but may i ask wheres wu hu? will be going down to hunt for the pipefish ahahahaha!

[avant]

Interesting how the thread has evolved on the pencilfish.. I don't recall seeing them though. Might have missed them out.

@icefire - Wu Hu is at 71 Seng Poh Road (very near to the Tiong Bahru market)

[griffinkid]

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Hi, comparing the ones in my tank and the image searched via Google by the name 'Gold Pencil', I see some similarities. Wondering if anyone could provide me with the scientific name? Clearly, this group of pencilfish is very different from nannostomus marginatus, nannostomus beckfordi and the nannostomus eques since I do have them swimming in my tank too

[illumnae]

I'm probably way off the mark...but they remind me of cyprinids and not pencilfish...probably some sort of rasbora?

[barmby]

Ya. It might not be pencils. There are only a few pencils that swim like a fish. The rest are just "head stander".. : )

[lucasjiang]

It looks like some sort of danio. By the way, in your tank, nannostomus eques is on the right, nannostomus marginatus is on the left.

[ranmasatome]

Aiyo... Rasbora lah..

R.daniconius or R. argyrotaenia??...

[griffinkid]

Oh! It does Look like R.daniconius or Rasbora Paviana... I wonder why Wuhu named them Gold Pencils! haha. Thanks for helping me to identify the fish!

[RonWill]

No need to wonder. If I wanted fishes to sell like hotcakes, I would have called them "Golden Nuggets"!!