Hi Adrian,

My knowledge of the geography of England isn't good I'm afraid so really would not know which places fall under which direction :-\

I used to then supply to three transhippers, Benair, Miss Fish and Pedigree but they used to only provide initials for their sub orders. But I had clearly ...

O Dark One,

did you consider Neotropius khavalchor ? Years ago I had sent some across to the UK and maybe ......

Hi Jools,

you were in too on that trip but nursing a bad tummy at the hotel and missed the Bhagirathi river trip for collecting sisorids. During that time we collected many sisorids similar species to what Balaji has shown above and Nangra assamensis among them. A type of dredging net with a log of ...

Heok Hee,

your experience during the collection of Nangra assamensis was an isolated case. I do not recall in which month we got these at the Gogangra site was it in Feb when you had come down with Darren in 1999 or in April 2004 with Antti but I do know the nets used at both times were totally ...

Thank You Adrian

Thanks to Richard and Steve too

Apologies Balaji for hijacking your thread.
Great pics and portrayal of this little known genus.

Warm regards All and Best Wishes for the New Year

Andrew

As a coauthor of the book Ornamental Aquarium Fish of India I publicly admit to mistakes in identification of some fish and naming certain undescribed species prematurely.


However, one must honestly appreciate the fact that this was the very first book on Indian Native fish which depicted live ...

hiya Laguviashawi ,

Not sure where they came from , not a lot of info was forthcoming from the shop
but i am now fascinated by clariiads and would like some more

they are indeed the best fish i have ever kept and getting bigger by the day!
i have seen some clarias angolensis (that was the label ...

thanks thats really helpful
ill go find a large encyclopeadia or something LOL
no they are not a confirmed pair i think they are prolly tank spawned and from the same spawning they are albino so i cant tell if they are male or female
i actually bought one and then went back for the other the next ...

Well, Chandramara is stated as being hardy, but my experience has shown that it's not really so. And neither is it an inhabitant of slow moving waters. Like the closely related Batasio (I suspect that Chandramara IS a Batasio , but that's another story), this is a bagrid that is adapted for living ...

Hi Beta,

I think Heok Hee has answered your question about the difference between O. pabda X O. malabaricus.
I thought as much, SIA regularly gets these fish from Kolkata, and his suppliers source their fish from me. Fish such as O.pabda; Chaca; Hara hara & H jerdoni among others.
My e.mail ID is ...

I agree with Heok Hee regarding correct ID for the Mystus. BUT, I beg to differ :

1. Rita gogra
2.Arius dussumieri
3.Mystus armatus
4.Mystus (?) definitely not vittatus, suggestive to bleekei (?) could Beta send another angle of the shot.
5. Ompok pabda, these fish are from Bengal.

Andrew ...

That's a very nice Hemibagrus maydelli you have there (first picture). I assume that's H. maydelli (from the Krishna River drainage), because I don't see the row of spots associated with either H. punctatus or H. menoda .

Dear Heok Hee,

That is not the first picture of Hemibagrus maydelli or ...

beta wrote:Actually! I was thinking it was Aorichthys seenghala (Giant River Catfish)

Dear Beta, do you know the locality of your Hemibagrus maydelli or did you by from SIA - Chennai ?

Andrew

The Indian fishes are:

Rita gogra
Arius dussumieri
Mystus malabaricus
Mystus vittatus
Ompok malabaricus

The Thai fish is Hemibagrus wyckioides

The Mystus are not easy to identify correctly. That's what I think they are, but I could be mistaken.

I agree with Heok Hee regarding ...

I also Have one but cannot idenify! And what is their behavious!
Pls help!

http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/2149/RitaRita.JPG

The pix of the white cat is that of Albino Rita rita collected 85 Km from Kolkata, a place called Nabadwip and the river is the Bhagirathi which is offshoot of the Ganges ...