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Got together with a few other hobbyist folks from around here end last year to visit these hills. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javadi_Hills). Nothing exciting in terms of fish collected :



Lepidocephalus thermalis
Rasbora daniconius
Puntius Sp



Channa gachua


From a fisherman's catch :



Salmostoma Sp.???



Puntius bimaculatus



Too long ago to remember what this was!!!!



Esomus danricus & Puntius bimaculatus



Cardinia Sp


The view.







The spots did looking promising but the catch was quite disappointing. In addition I managed to steal a Mystus with a damaged lower lobe from the fisherman. The lobe fell off en route.


We decided to visit a different part of the hills a few weeks ago. Wasnt expecting too much this time around. Our interests also lay in tasting homemade Biryani (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biryani)from a colleagues house in that area.







The collection spots.


The fish collected :





For Rupert and L Number Banana. D.aequipinnatus I think.



Garra mullya



Cardinia Sp ???





Schistura denisonii. One of the nastiest loaches ever!!!!!



Channa striata



Rasbora daniconius



Puntius bimaculatus



And we thought Plecos were bad news!!!!! Guppies!!!! Of all colours!!! This is a very
remote region and there is hardly any hobby related activity here. So we have no idea how they got here.

Quite sadly, we ran into horrifyingly huge populations of Tilapias and Gambusia s too.
There was a small water body that was filled only with 'em.

And the grand finale!!!!!!



Biryani!!!!!

Any visit to South India will be considered incomplete without at least a single plate of Biryani.So there s some good food to go with that cheap beer!!!!!

Nice locations, and even better looking curry!

Shovelnose wrote:For Rupert and L Number Banana. D.aequipinnatus I think.

I would say Devario malabaricus actually, as D. aequipinnatus is one of Hamilton's Gangetic species.

Shovelnose wrote:Rasbora daniconius

Same again for this one. Should be R. microcephalus.

Thanks for the ID's Rupert.

Just read up a bit on Rasbora's. Wouldn Rasbora dandia be a more apt ID???

Great pics as always,thanks for sharing

Shovelnose wrote:Wouldn Rasbora dandia be a more apt ID???

Possibly, although the dark midlateral stripe looks too thin for R. dandia.