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Shankar
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 Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 12:34 pm Post subject: Lost fish species from the Indian hobby. |
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Guys, i was thinking over and recollecting the list of fish i have had commonly seen here before, but seem to have somehow vanished now. List down all the fish that you have come across before, that are now real hard to find or almost lost.
My list begins with Mesonauta festivus. More to come later, let me recollect..
Guess Beta recently mentioned about N. anomala.
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joyban
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| Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 1:01 pm Post subject: Re: Lost fish species from the Indian hobby. |
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Well Two fishes I had always seen when I was a kid I remember are as :-
1. Kryptopterus bicirrhis - Glass catfish
2. Acanthophthalmus kuhlii - Common Name Kuhlii loach |
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| Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 1:33 pm Post subject: Re: Lost fish species from the Indian hobby. |
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There used to be a lot of these so called 'chocolate mollies' that are almost impossible to find these days 
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Shankar
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| Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 11:40 am Post subject: Re: Lost fish species from the Indian hobby. |
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@Joyban, one common glass catfish i saw often had a small transparent body with a shape somewhat like Pangasius hypophthalmus. Guess it could be an Indian native. ID anyone? Kuhli loaches are still in the market sometimes.
@Lawrence, the choco mollies ( red eyes, i guess ) were procured by one IAH member sometime back. So not completely lost, just a rare find.
Another fish i remember is Microgeophagus altispinosa . |
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| Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 12:30 pm Post subject: Re: Lost fish species from the Indian hobby. |
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Shankar - thanks for starting this thread its going to be learning experinece for all. I have started by googling some of them
According to planet catfish Pangasius hypophthalmus grows to 51"  proabably the LFS found it out by the way of unsold fish or customers bringing back the grown fish 
here is the article on planet catfish
http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/species.php?species_id=482
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Shankar
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| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 2:24 pm Post subject: Re: Lost fish species from the Indian hobby. |
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| Just keeping this thread alive. No flashbacks? |
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psimhan
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| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 2:29 pm Post subject: Re: Lost fish species from the Indian hobby. |
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Someone posted the fish to be identified in one of the other threads recently.
Buenos Aires Tetra - Hyphessobrycon anisitsi
Hardly seen in any LFS nowadays. |
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| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 2:45 pm Post subject: Re: Lost fish species from the Indian hobby. |
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The Buenos Aires Tetra is still alive and kicking in India up north. I get to see scores of these little devils (nowadays the albinos are becomming more common) every month in the LFS. The supply and the demand here in Chandigarh must be huge! Most of the fish here are from Kolkata so may be the guys there can tell whether they are there too.
Maybe a lot depends on where you are.
Rarely seen in Chandigarh:
Sailfin Mollies (surprised? so was I)
Neons (surprised again?)
Never seen in Chandigarh:
Glowlights
Head and tail lights
Kribensis
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psimhan
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| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 3:08 pm Post subject: Re: Lost fish species from the Indian hobby. |
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They used to be plentiful down here too. I remember as a kid, every LFS would definitely have these at all times.
I haven't seen any for quite a while now. Could be I am just not noticing them or my mindset has changed into ignoring these fish along with mollies, goldfish etc etc. |
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| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 3:21 pm Post subject: Re: Lost fish species from the Indian hobby. |
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Hey!!!
Bleedign hearts Rosy and blood fin tetra's were my favourites once... But they seem to have been disappeared from all LFS in Bangalore and in Chennai...
Banded leporinus is another one i can think of which i feel is hard to get.
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| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 3:43 pm Post subject: Re: Lost fish species from the Indian hobby. |
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Glass fish - Parambassis Ranga
Blue botia - Yasuhikotakia modesta
Flying fox or some variation of it
I remember buying a lot of those when i was younger but don't see them taht often at the LFS. I saw a few flying foxes the other day but at some exhorbitant price, so didn't venture near them. |
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| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 3:59 pm Post subject: Re: Lost fish species from the Indian hobby. |
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@Lawrence, the choco mollies ( red eyes, i guess ) were procured by one IAH member sometime back. So not completely lost, just a rare find.
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They were procured by myself about hundred pieces, they were being sent from chennai by Mr. Sam  who still has them in his farm. The reference of Sam was got from IAH itself.
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| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 8:30 pm Post subject: Re: Lost fish species from the Indian hobby. |
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I have not come across the head&tail lamp tetras for a looong time. There is also a decline in emperor tetras (once upon a time we used to get beautiful purple emperors here in mumbai) I guess the tetra breeding has had a huge set back ever since Shane sir became dormant. But, then there was a red parrot and flower horn madness in between even that was responsible for some fish having dis-appeared from the market.
I agree with Shankar I have myself not seen a festivum cichlid in some five to six years now on sale anywhere. (I really miss it!) I guess the severums took over the festivum and eventually breeders shifted to the popular ones.
Leave alone that I am yet to see a decent fire mouth in recent times, we used to get fire-mouths by the dozens once upon a time and now whatever is on sale is not even worth considering for purchase. C.synspilum, C.nicaraguenese, A.pulcher etc. were also seen once in a while but, this stupid FH craze practically killed the cichlid hobby. 
Take up the dwarf cichlids and you will also see a dead end for that part of the hobby 
what about the scissor tails and the headstanders and the pencilfish?  |
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| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 8:38 pm Post subject: Re: Lost fish species from the Indian hobby. |
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Hi Nauzer,
The tetras you mentioned are easily available here down south.
I haven't seen Kribs though. |
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| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 9:46 pm Post subject: Re: Lost fish species from the Indian hobby. |
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| Its been long since I've seen some wild caught Knife fish and of course E.maculatus which were selling like guppies & gold fish half a decade ago. |
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