junglemike

May 14, 2008. After 6 hours of driving, my friend & I reached a blackwater stream near Sibu. The peat swamp is full of blood sucking mosquitoes. It's not a pleasant site to collect some fishes for our aquarium. However, we're shocked to find out, the fish is found abundantly there. Less than half an hour, we found almost all the beautiful tropical fish which can be found in the peat swamp of Sarawak! And, we also found Cryptocoryne there!

The undisturbed blackwater peat swamp (water is acidic):






Collecting fish on a fallen tree:





Betta akarensis (wild fighting fish):





This swamp is infested with thousand of mosquitoes!




Most probably Crypt yujii in submerged condition:

junglemike

Most probably Cryptocoryne yujii



emersed condition:






Sundadanio axelrodi (colour is not showing up; under stress)






Bumblebee catfish, Nanobagrus fuscus.





2nd smallest fish, Paedocypris micromegethes (length = less than 1cm)





....to be continued.

Kai Witte

Hello Mike,

Thanks for another photo essay!

BTW, the crypt seems more like pallidinervia to me. Please post pics how it develops in culture - that may give additional hints short of flowering.

junglemike

The Crypt is melted in my tank.....so no idea what it is.....

Stephan K.

Hi Mike,

wonderful pictures!
Is the Bumblebee catfish the one we've missed in November because of high water level?

Stephan

junglemike

Yes, Stephan. Its cute, isn't it?

Yoong

Mike,
Nice picture. Thanks for sharing.

Yoong

Stephan K.

Hi Mike,

it's very cute. Maybe June 2009 ....

Stephan

Xema

Awesome as always!

Thanks for sharing your pictures with us!!

jazzlvr123

yes i love these photo essays the pictures are great thanks for sharing