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vijendra_s123
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Awesome collection....  |
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| Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 9:26 am Post subject: Re: My Collection of fish. |
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| Super cool fishes Nikhil !! |
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| Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 12:58 pm Post subject: Re: My Collection of fish. |
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Bariliud bendelisis (Pic copyright- Benjamin Harink)
Thanks guys. Here are some more.
Betta simorum
Aplocheilus blockii
Mesonoemacheilus sp. 'ID please' 'guentheri ?'
Schistura nilgiriensis
Deepak I normally do not keep the loaches I catch. They are normally passed on to Benjamin as he has a better set up for maintaining them. |
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| Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 6:09 pm Post subject: Re: My Collection of fish. |
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nice collection nikhil 
are all those gachua variants like the blue cheek etc valid? i always thought they were just fancy names given by dealers.
i have kept some of the variants and must say there are a lot of differences in colour,but less in other morphological features |
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| Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 9:39 pm Post subject: Re: My Collection of fish. |
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| nice collection |
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nikhilsood1
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| Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 9:47 am Post subject: Re: My Collection of fish. |
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Hi Hrish,
The fish are marked with names and locations only when I see something unusual in the fish. It helps me keep a better track of the fish. Like the Channa sp. 'Blue Cheek' has much more blue and orange than any Channa I have collected before.
Some More fish.
Danio meghalayensis
Betta enisae (Pair)
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| Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 11:32 am Post subject: Re: My Collection of fish. |
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Awesome collection, Nikhil. The Coorg Dario/Badis, very small? Super channa collection and love that Danio meghalayensis.
PS: Betta enisae makes a beautiful pair. Nice capture. |
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Marc
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| Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 12:04 pm Post subject: Re: My Collection of fish. |
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lovely fish
The C. gachua around Chennai had a lotta blue on the face too..........so I got a set of C. gachua from Bengal (close to type locality) but they had blue too  |
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| Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 12:18 pm Post subject: Re: My Collection of fish. |
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Marc,
Some Channa from Bengal often go by the trade name of Channa gachua 'Blue Bengal' at least in Germany. The blue cheek, is unusual in a way that, opposite to what the name suggests has a lot of orange on the cheeks and on the throat, a feature that I have not seen in gachua before. Hence red cheek might be the more valid 'trade name' if we are going that way.
I believe there is a lot of discussion going on regarding Channa gachua / limbata, unless people look into DNA, I guess we have to keep the trade names, e.g. localities to separate the strains.
Nothing worse than hybridizing the local strains and ending up with some Thai-India-Malaysia-Burma-wherever Channa gachua. Happened a lot already and people, not only in Europe, are quite confused :-)
Do you have a pic of the Chennai gachuas?
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| Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 12:21 pm Post subject: Re: My Collection of fish. |
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Ah, and one more thing, did anybody also notice the 'general' difference between gachuas from streams and rivers and those of ponds?
Ponds have normally much more colourful varieties.
The head form really differs: Pond variety very roundish head, tadpole looks. Rivers: elongated head and slimmer body shape.
That's what I noticed, not sure if it is relevant though, hahaha.
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| Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 1:01 pm Post subject: Re: My Collection of fish. |
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Some Channa from Bengal often go by the trade name of Channa gachua 'Blue Bengal' at least in Germany. The blue cheek, is unusual in a way that, opposite to what the name suggests has a lot of orange on the cheeks and on the throat, a feature that I have not seen in gachua before.
Do you have a pic of the Chennai gachuas?
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That is the C. gachua from Chembarampakkam (Chennai). I feel this could be a secondary sexual character.
It was interesting to observe this brilliant blue colour in C. gachua so I got a set from Bengal. Of the eight I got from bengal to compare, one had a brilliant blue cheek and the rest were ordinary coloured ones.
So I feel colour is highly variable |
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| Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 1:08 pm Post subject: Re: My Collection of fish. |
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Marc,
colour indeed is very highly variable. I noticed that it takes them at least a few days in a new aquarium to settle in and then show truly amazing colour. Preetham had some beuatiful Channa from I think Hoggenakal, when we caught them they were just a pale brown. The guy he showed me in his tank a few month later was a steel-blue dream.
Plus if you have more than one there will always be the suppressed one who do not colour up much, but you would have noticed that.
Colour is not an indicator for the species or locality, but some populations have rather unique patterns, e.g. there is a variety called sunglasses which has some green spot on the eye. The blue cheeks that nikhil posted show the intense red even when stressed and are therefore somewhat unusual.
Let's hop the DNA analysis out soon. We would still be confused afterwards, but there would be some clarity at least on the paper :)
Cheers
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| Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 8:50 am Post subject: Re: My Collection of fish. |
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Pelvicachromis subocellatus 'Matadi' Male
Betta rutilans
Badis sp. 'Round Face'
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| Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 8:58 am Post subject: Re: My Collection of fish. |
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Some More
Geophagus iporangensis (Image courtsey - Hayath)
Hoplarchus psittacus (Image courtsey - Hayath)
Toxotes sp. (Image courtsey - Hayath)
Parioglossus palustris (Image courtsey - Hayath)
Hoplosternum thoracatum (Image courtsey - Hayath)
Apistogramma steindachneri (Female) with fry.
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| Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2011 9:00 pm Post subject: Re: My Collection of fish. |
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| Sweet...... |
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