Aquatic-Discoveries: Suriname Expeditions

[Aquatic-Discoveries]

In September and October this year, me and three other Aquarium fanatics went on an expedition to the upper Surinam river. During the three weeks we were there we fished and filmed in various locations along the river and the creeks. We caught some very nice species and possibly even a new Bryconops species. Dr. Covain helped us identify the catfishes we caught which was very helpfull since hardly anything is known about the species found in this region. (Many of the pages on PC don't even have images of them)

The Dutch version of the report has already been published on my website: http://www.aquatic-discoveries.nl The English version is currently under construction but you could use Google translate to read it if Dutch isn't your thing (Or just look at the pictures). Our main priority now is getting the other fish species identified for our printed version of the report.

I have compiled the first video from all the material we collected, enjoy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpdA1WbA-Jk

Here is the direct link to the picasa album of the catfishes we caught.: https://picasaweb.google.com/1052752701 ... directlink

[Suckermouth]

Nice pictures, that's a nice Pseudancistrus depressus!

[racoll]

Nice pictures. Thanks for posting.

I like the

Harttia

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[kim m]

Fantastic!

Did you bring home any fish? ...particularly thinking about the Corydoras punctatus...

[Aquatic-Discoveries]

Fantastic!

Did you bring home any fish? ...particularly thinking about the Corydoras punctatus...

Nope, all the fishes were released after they had their pictures taken. (Except some larger ones that were eaten by either us or the locals)

[corybrummie2010]

Great pics and video mate,thank you for sharing

[bigward]

Excellent video and pics ....... love the Guianacara's

[Aquatic-Discoveries]

Number two, enjoy.

(ps: Can't embed the video's here? They don't show up, even with the proper youtube tags)

[Mod edit: Fixed youtube tags. I was going to suggest that you look at the FAQ for help on using Youtube tags, but the FAQ appears to be broken at present --Mats]

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(Works, thank you mod)

[Thriftyfisher]

Nice videos and photos in the report. Thanks for posting.

[nvcichlids]

I love seeing videos like this! Do you know what species of shrimp that is?

[Aquatic-Discoveries]

Most likely Macrobrachium brasiliense

[Aquatic-Discoveries]

Next one, with something nice at the end. It also has some nice catfishes in it.

[nvcichlids]

another amazing video! I hope my underwater camera gets fixed so I can get back out and do this.

BTW what was the tetra/barb species ( orange fish with spots) at about 43 seconds and again at 3 minutes. I would love to find the name and get some!

[kruseman]

BTW what was the tetra/barb species ( orange fish with spots) at about 43 seconds and again at 3 minutes. I would love to find the name and get some!

That is a Leporinus spec. Maybe L. maculatus.
It's an Anastomid and member of the order of Characiformes. Not a barb,since this family doesn't occur in South-America.
Nice fish indeed.

[nvcichlids]

That is a Leporinus spec. Maybe L. maculatus.
It's an Anastomid and member of the order of Characiformes. Not a barb,since this family doesn't occur in South-America.
Nice fish indeed.

That is the group I was thinking it would be (leporinus) and *DOH* for thinking barb.. LOL it's been a loooonnnng week~!

is Leporinus klausewitzi is one that is similar, but the vibrant orange in the video i am wondering if it is midleading due to the tannins in the water..

[Aquatic-Discoveries]

That small lepo is Leporinus granti (What's in a name...). They grow to about 10 cm with lovely bright red fins, we found them olmost everywhere. We did not catch any Leporinus maculatus, these species look alike only the maculatus grows to about 20 cm and it is allot less colorued.

[Aquatic-Discoveries]

The picasa album of the species that we caught was moved here and merged with another album of mine:

https://picasaweb.google.com/1052752701 ... directlink

Not all species have been identified at this moment.

[exasperatus2002]

Next one, with something nice at the end. It also has some nice catfishes in it.

What cichlid is that at 1:29 ?

[Aquatic-Discoveries]

Guianacara owroewefi

[racoll]

What cichlid is that at 1:29 ?

I noticed them too. They are Guianacara owroewefi. I'd love to keep some.

[exasperatus2002]

Guianacara owroewefi

I thought that was it but the online pics pale in comparison to that male displaying.

[Aquatic-Discoveries]

We found this species olmost in every body of water up to the point where I was like "Go away you damn guppy and show me some other cichlids!" Their colour varied allot, including the pattern on the side. Some only had a small dot whilst others had a complete stripe (and everything in between).

[Aquatic-Discoveries]

I finished the English version of the report this evening for your reading plesure, enjoy:

http://www.aquatic-discoveries.nl/2011_eng.html

[Aquatic-Discoveries]

Cajana-Kosindo lodge clip is now online.

[Aquatic-Discoveries]

And the last one for today. I think I have enough material for just one more vid.

[nvcichlids]

wow. thanks again for sharing. These videos are really inspiring!

[Aquatic-Discoveries]

Thank you, I really like making these vids. The corys in the first video are C. boesemani and C. punctatus in the second video. At the first creek we found a mix of boesemani (80%) and punctatus (20%) and in the second creek we found only punctatus.

These were the only two cory species we found in this part of the river. I did however see a plump, C. aneus like species at our first lodge (Tang Luku). I don't have this one on film nor did I catch any so I can't be absolutely sure. C. aneus however, is present in the river. There is a report on this site from a German that caught some in his search for C. boesemani.

[bigward]

Said it before and I will say it again ........ class videos

On a downer if anyone in the UK knows of any Guianacara owroewefi for sale I would be very interested as I recently lost my female

[corybrummie2010]

Fantastic videos and thank you for sharing