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Here are some more pictures from my Sumatra trip.

The aquarium fish exporter I visited had several sawfish (Pristis microdon) in stock:


He also dealt with food fish, and these Oxyleotris marmorata were destined for the retaurants of Singapore (where they fetch high prices and make good eating). The fish in the middle of the picture was about 55 cm SL:


There were also several baung (Hemibagrus cf. nemurus) along with tilapia in a concrete tank:


The aquarium fishes in stock included these clown loach fry. Clown loach season starts with the monsoons (in December) and lasts until April:


There was also this undescribed Leiocassis. This one is a different species from the one at Sungai Dareh I showed earlier:


The water levels were so high that there were many large flooded areas, some of them by the road. Some of the fishermen were fishing by these areas and selling their catch by the side of the road. Here's a sample catch:


I also visited the markets every day. Here's my typical market attire. The wellingtons came in very handy in dealing with the mud:


Some of the fishes I saw at the market included this very large Belodontichthys (which was about 60-70 cm SL):


I had to preserve the fishes by injecting them with formalin after each market visit:


My market purchases included:

Paradoxodacna piratica, a scale-eating glassfish.


Hampala ampalong


Plotosus canius


Pangasius nasutus


Clarias meladerma. This was considered the best-tasting of all the Clarias species available.

Lastly, my favorite Clarias:

This is a dish known as pecel lele (lele being the local name for Clarias). These were C. gariepinus (which the locals call lele dumbo).

those are soooo cool!!
I espcially love the Clown Loach fry, they're soo cute tiny!
What language do they speak there?(cause I want to learn how to say hi and bye.)
p.s. whats the catfish in your signature?

Great Trip in Sumatra

Please you ID Silurids gruop in your picture.
Hemisilurus
Silurodes
Wallago
Micronema
Belodontichthys

Leiocassis in your picture that looklike L. cf. micropogon from Southern part of Thailand.

whats the catfish in your signature?

, which was obtained during an earlier trip to Sumatra.

Silurus wrote:

whats the catfish in your signature?

Bagrichthys hyselopterus

, which was obtained during an earlier trip to Sumatra.

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Please you ID Silurids gruop in your picture.

These were the silurids obtained on this trip:
Kryptopterus bicirrhis
K. cryptopterus
K. limpok
Hemisilurus heterorhynchus
H. moolenburghi
Ceratoglanis scleronema
Wallago leerii
Belodontichthys dinema
Silurodes rhadinurus
S. eugeneiatus
Micronema apogon

PS. Michelle, I corrected the spelling error.

PS. Michelle, I corrected the spelling error.

Ok good! phew!

That is a cracking <I>Pseudomystus</I>. Looking forward to adding these to the catelog and also finding out a bit more about some of them - virtually all new to me.

Jools

The sawfish (pristis microdon), is that for freshwater? Can they be kept in aquariums? I was always facinated in them. I always thought that they grow to great lengths --- 10 feet or more. I also read that there was a smaller version. Is pristis microdon the smaller one?

Regards,
Mike D.

Pristis microdon is one of the smaller sawfishes, maxing out at a bit more than 2 feet. They can (and have been) kept in freshwater (they regularly ascend rivers, which is how they are caught for the aquarium trade), and are not too difficult to maintain (can be fed a diet of shelled raw shrimp). Given the sizes they reach and the space need, I'd say they're more suitable for a pond.

The final report I submitted to the ACSI for the Sumatra trip is posted here, if you're interested in seeing a full list of catfishes I obtained on the trip (I was trying to keep some of the information in there confidential, but someone else evidently thought that it should serve as an example).

Silurus,I'm a Chinese animal fan. I like to collect animal pictures.I think the picture"Pangasius nasutus","Clarias meladerma","Plotosus canius"is a little small.Do you have larger pictures?
You look like Chinese very much,can you speak Chinese?Have you been to China?
I come from China,Nanjing.What's your e-mail address?

If you wait a while, the (larger) images will eventually make their way to the Cat-eLog.

As for the question of my Chinese-speaking ability, go ask Dinyar ;)

What's"Dinyar".Can you understand Chinese. Can I conmunicate you with Chinese?
I have some Chinese fresh water fishes' pictures.please tell me your e-mail address so that I can send them to you.Can you give me some more Sumatra fresh water fishes's picture?

Apologies to the non-Chinese speakers on the forum:

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What's"Dinyar"

wrong question!
you'd best ask WHO is Dinyar


He'll be around.
apart from fooling around with catfishes, Dinyars' best liked hobby is tweaking my elbow!

finally got one over you, didn't I Dinyar?

sid

Silurus wrote:As for the question of my Chinese-speaking ability, go ask Dinyar ;)

I would be happy to provide a testimonial regarding Silurus' Chinese speaking abilities to any interested parties. Young Silurus is an extremely literate animal who straddles languages, cultures, species, genera, in fact everything up to superclasses, effortlessly. A rara piscis indeed.

SG_Eurystomus wrote:You'd best ask WHO is Dinyar?

More than anything else, "Dinyar" is a state of mind, somewhere between Being and Nothingness. So "what?", "where?", "why?", "how?", "when?", "who?" and many other interrogatives are all equally applicable.

As for SG_Eurystomus, for those who have pondered the meaning of this riddle and have not yet reached enlightenment, in Latin, "Eurystomus" means "big mouth". The tag line "there can only be one true Eurystomus" happens to be entirely appropriate in this case. ::straightface::

Dinyar

I'm sorry,Dinyar.I should have asked "Who's Dinyar".
Dinyar,are you a expert on catfish. Where do you come from?Could you bring me some native catfishes' picture?Can you speak Chinese or understand Chinese?

Hello nzycsgj,

No, I am not an expert on catfish, but I have kept a few and sent many to an untimely death. And yes, I do speak Chinese.

What does "njyzwsc" stand for? What catfish do you keep?

Dinyar

Hello,Dinyar.I didn't keep catfish.But I often eat a kind of catfish,called"Pelteobagrus fulvidraco".
Today,I will eat this delicious food again.There're many these catfishes in the market.I want to communicate with you by e-mail.My e-mail address is: njyzwsc@163.com.Please send a email in my email box so that we can talk with by Chinese.about"njyzwsc",I can tell you in email.

The pics are now up at my website here.
Some of the pics you have already seen were replaced by new ones.

Wow those pictures were great thank you for sharing them .It looks like you had agreat time.I hope one day ill get to travel abroad to an asian countr. again thank you for sharing

Great Pics!
That must be great to be able to really do what you love for a living, Looks like tons of fun anyway!
My biggest problem would be pulling myself away!

Did you bring back any living specimens?

Did you bring back any living specimens?

I was very sorely tempted to bring back half a dozen Hyalobagrus flavus (which would probably make me the only person in all of North America to own any), but I decided to give them a better home in Singapore after bringing them out of Sumatra.
It was a good thing I decided not to, anyway. We were delayed for 6 hours in Seattle and I didn't think the fish would have survived.