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Title: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Sue on June 15, 2016, 09:11:40 AM
In "Introduce Yourself, new member hampalong posted some photos of his fish, and one of them was captioned 'I don't have any oddballs at the moment, unless you count this. I'll let you guess what it is'

A few members have been trying to guess/work out/search databases for this fish, so I thought rather than clutter up the original thread with discussions I'd start this one.

Here is the photo
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Sue on June 15, 2016, 09:17:16 AM
The discussion in Introduce Yourself:


Littlefish
Without wishing to sound like a numpty, but can any of you "old timers"/experienced fishy peeps help to identify the fish in Mark's first picture. Thanks.

Paddyc
In fear of sounding like a numpty myself... Maybe an Albino Red Tail shark or something like that? Can you even get those???

Sue
It's an not oddball (he said so). It's big. There are several in his tank.

Which means I don't know as I haven't a clue about most big fish. But it has a sort of barb appearance to it.......

Littlefish
I'm guessing that the odd thing about it is that it doesn't normally have spots.

After a rummage around YouTube, following the links that Mark posted, being distracted by all the ones about the black ghost (which was awesome), and finally coming across one titled "Barbs and lettuce" <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRnzMFaUWiI" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRnzMFaUWiI</a>
where a pair of the fish in question make an appearance.
Clip says it contains the following fish "Lemon Fin Barbs/Diamond Barb/Diamond Shark (Hypsibarbus wetmorei)", so I had a look at them and couldn't find any with spots on.
However, did find a link to the PFK forum archive where there was a discussion about lemon fin barbs being sold to people as diamond sharks, so I think Paddy can come out from behind the sofa because barb or shark even more experienced people were being mis-sold one as the other (didn't think it could be an albino with spots though).

That's as far as I've got because I keep getting distracted by other fish.

Sue
Got it!

In his post, member Hampalong said "I'll let you guess what it is".

That was a huge clue.


When you all give up, I'll tell you what it is and how I found out  ;D

(it did involve a bit of 'cheating')






Please post your suggestions below and I'll say if you're right *smug feeling*   ;D
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Robert on June 15, 2016, 09:46:52 AM
Haha, excellent, well I won't spoil the fun but I've identified it too. ;)



Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Sue on June 15, 2016, 09:54:54 AM
Littlefish
I'm guessing that the odd thing about it is that it doesn't normally have spots.

Actually, there isn't anything odd about it. Oddball is a fish group. You have some - puffers are classed as oddball fish. The group includes anything that won't fit in another group. They're not characins or cypranids or catfish or loaches or anabatids etc


Clue - he said he doesn't have any oddballs at the moment unless you count this. Which means it isn't in the oddball group but is a rarely sold member of one of the other groups.
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Paddyc on June 15, 2016, 10:07:19 AM
It's got to be a barb... I was thinking Rosy or Lipstick barb... There is a very subtle colour tone change at the "snout"

 ???
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Sue on June 15, 2016, 10:10:26 AM
Yes, and no.

OK so now we've narrowed down the group to cypranids.



I mentioned above that it is rarely sold. It doesn't have a common name so you'll have to give the scientific name.
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Paddyc on June 15, 2016, 10:12:50 AM
Arulius!!!!
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: ColinB on June 15, 2016, 10:16:27 AM
I could take a punt at it.....
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Sue on June 15, 2016, 10:19:28 AM
Arulius!!!!

No  :)
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Robert on June 15, 2016, 10:20:18 AM
I'd play along, but to hamper the fun would be unkind.

In any case, there's a tv program on now about gazelles and impalas so I'll have to bow out
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Sue on June 15, 2016, 10:31:18 AM
You'll know when you have the right fish. Can I ask when anyone does know that they pm me with the answer so that everyone else can still try. I'll confirm by posting in here that xxx has the right answer.

Robert has already pm'd me, and he got it right.
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Paddyc on June 15, 2016, 10:34:39 AM
I could take a punt at it.....

Yeah someone pease join me....  :rotfl:
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Paddyc on June 15, 2016, 10:41:02 AM
Arulius!!!!

No  :)


GGrrrrrrr  :(
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Sue on June 15, 2016, 11:01:19 AM
If it helps, that was one of the first fish I looked at  ;D


Don't forget I said I cheated to find the answer, ie I didn't just look at lists of barbs. And when you find it, it will be glaringly obvious. Hint - look at exactly what hampalong said in his posts and work from there.
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Paddyc on June 15, 2016, 11:18:12 AM
If it helps, that was one of the first fish I looked at  ;D


Don't forget I said I cheated to find the answer, ie I didn't just look at lists of barbs. And when you find it, it will be glaringly obvious. Hint - look at exactly what hampalong said in his posts and work from there.

I've got it now!!!!!  ::)
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Littlefish on June 15, 2016, 11:28:47 AM
Darn, I've missed out on all of this today.
Ok, looks like I need to start having a think.  :)
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: ColinB on June 15, 2016, 11:47:15 AM
I'm going off to sit in the box of shame...... I pm'd Sue with:

"How about the Two-spot Barb, Puntius bimaculatus?"

To which I recieved derision and scorn heaped upon me! (Actually, Sue's far too nice for that so I got a polite "no")   :))
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: ColinB on June 15, 2016, 12:30:04 PM
(http://rs1143.pbsrc.com/albums/n635/mathgirl1248/Animated%20gifs/Animated%20non-SGA/boxofshame_zps3f714a1c.gif~c200)
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Sue on June 15, 2016, 12:53:10 PM

I've got it now!!!!!  ::)

Maybe. You didn't give me the latin name so I can't be sure  :)

Pm me the latin name of the fish you pm'd the common name for.
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Sue on June 15, 2016, 12:55:20 PM
Colin has the genus right, he just needs the species now.

In other words he got the first part of the latin name, he just needs the second word.
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: ColinB on June 15, 2016, 01:33:12 PM
I think I've got it...... enough to climb out of the box of shame, anyway! :))
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: fcmf on June 15, 2016, 02:00:38 PM
Don't reveal the answer - I went to all lengths last night, going through my old editions of PFK mag, googling and finding websites in which the description/characteristics can be input, etc, etc, to no avail.  I'm determined not to give up, though, but work is hectic today and no time for a lunchbreak except these few minutes.  However, I'll have another go later on (18:30-19:00ish), so please don't reveal the answer before then!! Thanks. :)
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Sue on June 15, 2016, 02:06:57 PM
Don't worry, I won't. I'll tell the people who pm me with the right answer that they are right, but I won't post it on here until everyone agrees it is time.



Then we can all compare notes on how we found it.
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: apache6467 on June 15, 2016, 02:44:01 PM
i think it is a filament bulb barb. cannot find latin name or on google! will try and get a pic when i visit him later! my LFS on my paper round has some! http://www.harveysaquatics.co.uk/
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Sue on June 15, 2016, 03:04:46 PM
Do you mean filament barb (http://www.seriouslyfish.com/species/dawkinsia-filamentosa/)?

It's not that.
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Littlefish on June 15, 2016, 05:38:44 PM
I had to go to 2 aquatics places today to get plants for the axolotl tank, and shrimp for the 125L tank.
Didn't notice anything that looked like the photo, but was also thoroughly enjoying myself looking at the leaf fish, and several other new arrivals.
Catching up on posts here & at caudata forum, then will have another think.  :)
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Sue on June 15, 2016, 07:01:07 PM
I doubt you will find it in a shop, except for a very specialist one. There are probably only a handful of people in the country that own these fish. I had never heard of it until I managed to work out what the fish in the photo was.
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: fcmf on June 15, 2016, 07:08:15 PM
"Regrouping" after completely barking up the wrong tree (or should that be swimming against the flow) with my two guesses...
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Sue on June 15, 2016, 08:59:30 PM
Any further entries?

Does anyone want more time, or do I reveal the answer?
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Extreme_One on June 15, 2016, 09:03:59 PM
I'm struggling, but haven't had time to do much in the way of research.

Maybe clues?

Is the photo typical of the species?
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: fcmf on June 15, 2016, 09:11:57 PM
Even the clues provided aren't helping me - my brain is like this :blank:

Happy to keep trying, though, but definitely need a further pointer.
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Paddyc on June 15, 2016, 09:13:50 PM
I got it but I had help  :-[
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Littlefish on June 15, 2016, 09:16:59 PM
More time please, if that's ok with the others.
I've been washing sand and rocks for the new axolotl tank, so haven't had as much time to look around as I would have liked to find the answer.
Now I've started a beer, so the chances of me thinking for the rest of the evening are remote.

@Paddyc it's not help, it's a collaborative project.  ;)
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Sue on June 15, 2016, 09:18:45 PM
I have never seen the fish in the flesh, but when I google the name it comes up with a lot of images, including one from PFK forum by someone who has just joined this forum and posted a pic of the fish here! The user name is different so you can't just go looking for posts on PFK by someone called hampalong (his name on here)


It is a barb, a large barb. When the photo was posted, it is the first time I have ever come across this fish.

I did not find it by recognising the photo.
I did not find it by looking at pictures of barbs.
I was more sneaky than that.


I shall just say don't think about trying to find the fish but try to think of a place you might find it, and when you do find the place, you'll know immediately that you have the right fish. I have given you a clue to where that place is already.
And read everything hampalong said in his posts in the Introduce Yourself thread.




Paddy had such a huge clue that he ought to have found it pretty quickly  ;D



Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: apache6467 on June 15, 2016, 09:22:45 PM
We should do this more often with these quizzes, its kinda fun :D
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Extreme_One on June 15, 2016, 09:24:20 PM
Got it, but only by cheating.  ;)

What a fascinating fish! Would love a tank to adequately home some.
My misses would knock me off my perch if I even suggested it!
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Sue on June 15, 2016, 09:26:21 PM
Simon, you are supposed to pm me the name so I can say if you are right  ;D
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Littlefish on June 15, 2016, 09:27:47 PM
Well, at least Simon didn't say it on the forum.
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Paddyc on June 15, 2016, 09:30:21 PM
I did not find it by recognising the photo.
I did not find it by looking at pictures of barbs.
I was more sneaky than that.


I shall just say don't think about trying to find the fish but try to think of a place you might find it, and when you do find the place, you'll know immediately that you have the right fish. I have given you a clue to where that place is already.
And read everything hampalong said in his posts in the Introduce Yourself thread.




Paddy had such a huge clue that he ought to have found it pretty quickly  ;D

Yeah yeah, rub it in...  :raspberries

 :rotfl:
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Sue on June 15, 2016, 09:46:09 PM
Turning the laptop off now so anyone who pm's me the answer will have to wait till tomorrow  :)
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: fcmf on June 15, 2016, 09:46:44 PM
We should do this more often with these quizzes, its kinda fun :D
I had been thinking that too, Apache - maybe once every month.  However, I'm driving myself demented in my quest to identify the fish...  I'm convinced I've aged by about ten years in the process.  Every so often, I exclaim "Aaah - got it at long last!" but then realise I'm wrong.
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Hampalong on June 16, 2016, 12:17:50 AM
I'd just like to point out that you're all big cheats.

 :raspberries

....and I didn't intentionally give any clue.

So if you would kindly forget what it is and try to ID it in the normal laborious manner...


For the record, albino animals are white, because they have no pigmentation whatsoever. They have pink or red eyes, because without pigmentation in the iris you can see the red of the blood vessels in the retina.

:)

Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Hampalong on June 16, 2016, 12:27:20 AM
I doubt you will find it in a shop, except for a very specialist one. There are probably only a handful of people in the country that own these fish. I had never heard of it until I managed to work out what the fish in the photo was.

Actually from my own research I believe they're possibly the only two that have ever been in Britain. And they came here unidentified.
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: ColinB on June 16, 2016, 07:52:57 AM
We should do this more often with these quizzes, its kinda fun :D
I had been thinking that too, Apache - maybe once every month.  However, I'm driving myself demented in my quest to identify the fish...  I'm convinced I've aged by about ten years in the process.  Every so often, I exclaim "Aaah - got it at long last!" but then realise I'm wrong.

Yep! Quiz of the month posted by who ever got the previous month's quiz correct first. That'll mean Sue gets to do it each month! :))
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Hampalong on June 16, 2016, 08:23:19 AM
Why not just have it ongoing, where the person who gets it posts another? If someone gets it on the first day, a month is a long time to wait for the next one.
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Robert on June 16, 2016, 08:57:46 AM
Why not just have it ongoing, where the person who gets it posts another? If someone gets it on the first day, a month is a long time to wait for the next one.


We should do this more often with these quizzes, its kinda fun :D
I had been thinking that too, Apache - maybe once every month.  However, I'm driving myself demented in my quest to identify the fish...  I'm convinced I've aged by about ten years in the process.  Every so often, I exclaim "Aaah - got it at long last!" but then realise I'm wrong.

Yep! Quiz of the month posted by who ever got the previous month's quiz correct first. That'll mean Sue gets to do it each month! :))


Great ideas, I like the ongoing suggestion...


Just create new threads each time, so they can me marked as solved at the end and mods can update the thread with the common and scientific names :)


Also keep them on this particular board too.  :cheers:
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Sue on June 16, 2016, 09:07:11 AM
I'd just like to point out that you're all big cheats.

 :raspberries

....and I didn't intentionally give any clue.

So if you would kindly forget what it is and try to ID it in the normal laborious manner...


Ah but they are so rare that we'd never get it by the normal laborious manner  ;D


I do family history research so I'm used to grabbing the tiniest clue to find the way forward. I had read everything you wrote in your posts and two words in there gave me the clue I needed once I had worked out where I needed to go  :)



Since you have the only ones in the country, how on earth did you manage to identify them?
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Sue on June 16, 2016, 09:09:36 AM
Another forum I'm a member of did ID competitions which ran for ages. Some people used their own fish but most used images from other sites.

If you do this, remember to remove everything from the image that bears the name of the fish. You'd be surprised how many times all you had to do was hover over the image for the name to show.
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: apache6467 on June 16, 2016, 10:04:17 AM
If you do this, remember to remove everything from the image that bears the name of the fish. You'd be surprised how many times all you had to do was hover over the image for the name to show.
how do you do that?!?
Why not just have it ongoing, where the person who gets it posts another? If someone gets it on the first day, a month is a long time to wait for the next one.

That's the Spirit! But mine will be too easy!  :)) :)) :))

We should do this more often with these quizzes, its kinda fun :D
I had been thinking that too, Apache - maybe once every month.  However, I'm driving myself demented in my quest to identify the fish...  I'm convinced I've aged by about ten years in the process.  Every so often, I exclaim "Aaah - got it at long last!" but then realise I'm wrong.

Yep! Quiz of the month posted by who ever got the previous month's quiz correct first. That'll mean Sue gets to do it each month! :))


Great ideas, I like the ongoing suggestion...


Just create new threads each time, so they can me marked as solved at the end and mods can update the thread with the common and scientific names :)


Also keep them on this particular board too.  :cheers:

That's the Spirit! But mine will be too easy!  :)) :)) :))
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Sue on June 16, 2016, 10:08:39 AM
Apache, I haven't a clue how to do that with images from other sites, I just know what happened on the other forum. But someone who does know will be able to tell us.

If you use photos of your own you just have to change the name before adding it to your post.
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Hampalong on June 16, 2016, 10:49:19 AM




Since you have the only ones in the country, how on earth did you manage to identify them?

It was pretty easy really. The genus seemed obvious, and if you know where to look....

I said they were unidentified. Actually they were just wrongly identified, and came in as the 'usual' member of their genus (the word 'usual' is purely relative, since they're also rarely imported). The shop didn't realise they were different.


Re the quiz, there's one on another forum where the link to the picture is posted rather than the picture itself, to prevent possible copyright infringement.
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Fiona on June 16, 2016, 01:32:12 PM
The shop didn't realise they were different.

happens a lot..dwarf puffers, stiphs and now my mystery gourami  ::)
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Sue on June 16, 2016, 01:56:48 PM
So do we reveal the identity of the fish in the photo - it's hampalong's fish so maybe he should do the honours.

Anyone want to wait a bit longer?
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Extreme_One on June 16, 2016, 04:13:24 PM
I think Hampalong should do the honours.

I'd love to hear more about his home and his habits (the fish's not hampalongs!)  ;D
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Sue on June 16, 2016, 04:17:56 PM
In that case, would @hampalong please reveal the name of the fish in his photo  :)




Then I'll tell you of the devious, unethical means I used to find it  ;D
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Extreme_One on June 16, 2016, 04:22:43 PM

Then I'll tell you of the devious, unethical means I used to find it  ;D

Haha I'm wondering if we might just have used the same method now.  ;)
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Sue on June 16, 2016, 04:26:46 PM
I know how Robert found it (he told me) so that leaves you and Colin to come clean as well.
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Extreme_One on June 16, 2016, 05:07:09 PM
Well I did say I cheated!  :rotfl:

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/enVZiSNpLcn_qa1u8iLJHT8NcxqE4TGuShfiKvgXuR6EmK_2bB3f5W4ptSI2HctW8byaK6WcZQ=s640-h400-e365)
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Sue on June 16, 2016, 05:08:56 PM
I did something else  ;)

If I say what I did now, it'll spoil hampalong's reveal.
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Hampalong on June 16, 2016, 05:19:04 PM
In that case, would @hampalong please reveal the name of the fish in his photo  :)

Well, I can only assume you've got it right, those that think they have... :)

The clue is in the name - not the fish's name, but my name.....

The fish is called

Hampala ampalong

It's a predatory Barb from Sumatra and Borneo. While researching it's ID I only found a handful of pictures online, of a couple of specimens caught in a Thai fishing lake that were about 12-15" or so (quite small for a Hampala).

Two 3" ones arrived at my local MHA (Maidenhead Aquatics), thought to be H. macrolepidota, but I knew they weren't by the markings and the fact that they were behaving like mid-water predators rather than bottom-hugging ones.

They were so cute I just had to have them. They were always together, just like they were when I got them home...

(http://i981.photobucket.com/albums/ae299/ghostblack/Fish/Mine/CE5B9D01-ED23-495C-AA3E-F3B4A9A6CB0D_zps2l0vnxdb.jpg) (http://s981.photobucket.com/user/ghostblack/media/Fish/Mine/CE5B9D01-ED23-495C-AA3E-F3B4A9A6CB0D_zps2l0vnxdb.jpg.html)

(http://i981.photobucket.com/albums/ae299/ghostblack/Fish/Mine/T1%202012/Hampala/Hampala6.jpg) (http://s981.photobucket.com/user/ghostblack/media/Fish/Mine/T1%202012/Hampala/Hampala6.jpg.html)

They had a very interesting feeding habit. When the tank was filled with a cloud of Prima, the dollars would sail around gobbling up all in their path  (like Homer in the space shuttle?). The Hampalas would eye up one piece then lunge at it, then eye up another piece to the side (always to the side), turn on the spot and lunge at that... and so on...

They turned out to be a male and female. Sadly the male died last year from multiple blockages from swallowing whole cockles at night meant for the Black Ghost. It wasn't nice at all having to euthanise him. He was about 6", the female is about 8".
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Extreme_One on June 16, 2016, 05:31:43 PM
She's a beauty! :cheers:
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Sue on June 16, 2016, 05:37:03 PM
This is what I did.

Hampalong said he was on the PFK forum, but I didn't think he'd use the same user name.
The fish looked very much like barbs, which are cyprinids.
Hampalong said they weren't oddballs but they were as good as, which to me meant they were very rare.

So I went to PFK forum, cyprinid section, and went through the posts one by one. On the third page I found a post titled Rare barbs - any interest (http://forum.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/showthread.php?t=104166) - and the poster's name was black ghost. Hampalong did say he used to have an oddball, the black ghost knife fish.

So I clicked on the post and read
"I have a pair (1m, 1f) of Hampala ampalong...." I stopped reading at that point as I was sure I'd found it

Thinkfish user name hampalong
Fish name Hampala ampalong

It had to be.

Then I googled  that fish name and found  this link (http://forum.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/showthread.php?t=81176&page=2) to another PFK thread and in post 14 was another picture with a title.



I tried giving clues. I said to think of a place to look - since hampalong is a PFK member, that was the obvious place to go.
I'd already said it was a barb, and said that barbs are cyprinids.
I said read everything hampalong had written - he listed black ghost among his previous fish. And I said that two words had given me a clue - again, black ghost.


That's how you cheat and be devious  ;D





Edit - have now corrected the spelling of the user name and fish name  :-[ I think I have mentioned in the past that I type all the right letters but not necessarily in the right order.
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Robert on June 16, 2016, 05:46:16 PM
Great sleuthing Sue, I can't reveal my method, else everyone will use it and competitions will be over in a zaliladash.


Fun stuff!


Ps. I don't know what a zaliladash is either, but it sounds fast ;)
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Hampalong on June 16, 2016, 05:55:11 PM
...Hampala amplaong....user name hampalalong
Fish name Hampala amaplaong....

Autocorrupt is a wonderful thing.

 :rotfl:
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: ColinB on June 16, 2016, 06:00:16 PM
I got it by a clue given by someone (sorry - forgotten who) who said they didn't want to hamper our search, and were off to watch gazelles and impala. As these were strange things to say I played around with these words plus fish in google and it autocorrected me to Hampala. I got the wrong one first off, then a bit more searching with google images and I found a piccie linked to PFK. QED.
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Fiona on June 16, 2016, 06:35:27 PM
It was Rob and I was kind of wondering why he'd shared that  ::) I thought it was quite a reasonable comment  :))
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Paddyc on June 16, 2016, 06:39:07 PM
...Hampala amplaong....user name hampalalong
Fish name Hampala amaplaong....

Autocorrupt is a wonderful thing.

 :rotfl:

Great, now I've got that song stuck in my head....

A la la la la long..... A la la la la long long Li long long long...  COME ON!!

I don't care if you're singing it yourself now... Sharing is caring  :raspberries
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: fcmf on June 16, 2016, 07:20:31 PM
After all my aforementioned hunting, following Sue's e-mails, I started looking up all sorts of leads including black ghost's posts (and cichlid man's), going through the PFK cyprinid section (think I stopped at pg 2, though), and doing numerous searches for pics from Mark through the website - kept getting aquascaping tanks up from another Mark. I couldn't get "puntius" out of my head, though, although Sue had kindly advised me it was not a 'puntius'. In the PFK cyprinid section (I think), I found this http://www.seriouslyfish.com/species/puntius-exclamatio/ under the name 'Dawkinsia exclamatio' and was convinced I'd found the answer until I realised that it too was a 'puntius'.

Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Sue on June 16, 2016, 07:34:39 PM
...Hampala amplaong....user name hampalalong
Fish name Hampala amaplaong....

Autocorrupt is a wonderful thing.

 :rotfl:



Me and my typing. I have now corrected the spellings.
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Robert on June 16, 2016, 07:42:31 PM
I got it by a clue given by someone (sorry - forgotten who) who said they didn't want to hamper our search, and were off to watch gazelles and impala. As these were strange things to say I played around with these words plus fish in google and it autocorrected me to Hampala. I got the wrong one first off, then a bit more searching with google images and I found a piccie linked to PFK. QED.

I've no idea what you're on about ColinB!

It was all true! David Attenborough rocks!! 😀
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Littlefish on June 16, 2016, 08:51:27 PM
Darn it, I've missed all the fun.
I've been dealing with the axolotl tanks. The one tank is complete and the mature axolotls are moved. I still have to empty the old tank and clean out the sand so I can attach the background. I think it's going to be a long night, or a long day tomorrow.
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: apache6467 on June 16, 2016, 09:42:38 PM
Wow. I wouldn't have gotten that but I thought it was a filament barb!  :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Hampalong on June 16, 2016, 11:04:43 PM
I got it by a clue given by someone (sorry - forgotten who) who said they didn't want to hamper our search, and were off to watch gazelles and impala.

I noticed the hamper, but the impala went right over my head (as they do). I thought it was true... and it was, apparently.


(not).   :)
Title: Re: Fish Identification from photograph
Post by: Robert on June 17, 2016, 12:33:37 PM
It was Rob and I was kind of wondering why he'd shared that  ::) I thought it was quite a reasonable comment  :))


See! My exact sentiments, purely coincidental - everyone loves Mr Attenborough. ;)