Omg Read This Report!

micstarz · 01-02-2006, 07:06 PM

Black Paradise Fish (Macropodus concolor) are present in the marshes, one of which is also the only known site in the SAR for Hydrochidae beetles, as a result of which that particular marsh was recommended for protection (by extension of the country park boundary) in a report on freshwater wetland habitats commissioned by the then Agriculture and Fisheries Department (Dudgeon & Chan, 1996). The author is unaware as to whether any action has been taken on this recommendation.

Fish fauna in the streams passing through the area has not been thoroughly surveyed, but on a recent site visit by fish expert Bosco Chan, several individuals of the Bonylip Barb Osteochilus vittatus were observed. There have apparently been no published records of this species in Hong Kong for thirty years. The author has, on two occasions, encountered terrapin traps in the same stream – a sure indication that the critically endangered Three-banded Box Terrapin (Cuora trifasciata) is present (although perhaps not for much longer). A dead specimen of the locally rare Banded Stream Snake (Opisthotropis balteata) was encountered on the village road beside this stream in 1999. The stream is also rich in dragonflies, and was recommended for protected status on the basis of its odonate fauna by Wilson (1997). Two species of Macromia (M. katae and M. urania) are present, while Gynacantha japonica and Macromidia rapida are abundant.

micstarz · 01-02-2006, 07:07 PM

The paradise fish and the bonylip barb?

WOW! YOU MEAN I COULD GO AND CATCH FREE PARADISE FISH?

**TheOldSalt** · 01-03-2006, 09:28 AM

Apparently so. If you really look around, you'll probably find quite a few intersting species that you can catch.

micstarz · 01-03-2006, 07:58 PM

yep I once saw a something like a bubblenest and some twigs... but I thought it was just the mosquitoes driving me crazy

micstarz · 01-17-2006, 06:58 PM

spotted a bublenest and so searched nearby... no luck

fishboy · 01-17-2006, 07:57 PM

keep trying, if your lucky you'll get a good harvest of pure natural strains

that'd be something for your jounal

micstarz · 01-17-2006, 08:01 PM

yup, indeed so! If there is a bubblenest nearby (I cant take the bubble nest or male, thats a huge impact) and there are weeds, floating algae and stones where is the female most likely to be?

**Cichlid Man** · 01-18-2006, 07:16 AM

If you get some you can try and to breed them and and write a journal, that would be cool. I wish I lived somewhere where I could catch fish like that.

MHarris9252 · 01-18-2006, 07:40 AM

Yeah me too, though I have heard of laws in Florida where you can catch up to one SW aquarium fish per year going diving, something like that. I'll have to research that more, it would be really cool to have a fish in my tank that I caught myself straight from it's natural setting. Very cool, that's on my list of things to do before i die.

**TheOldSalt** · 01-18-2006, 11:05 AM

There is no such law. All you have to do is have a state saltwater fishing license and stay out of state parks and other protected areas. You'd need a collector's permit to catch a whole bunch of fish at a time, ( and they aren't going to give you one anyway so don't worry about it ) but you can catch a few for yourself no problem. You cannot collect gamefish species, corals, live rocks, or club-tipped anemones ( the sting of which can kill you ) but everything else is fair game. Try dragging a net through the turtlegrass beds under the bridge going into Destin from FWB on 90, and you'll be amazed by the sheer number of kewl critters you find. A slurpgun can help you bag the fish around the pilings.

micstarz · 01-19-2006, 01:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cichlid Man

If you get some you can try and to breed them and and write a journal, that would be cool. I wish I lived somewhere where I could catch fish like that.

haha, I think US journeys to HK are very inexpensive now, you could come once you have settled down! :P

Anyway I will not be going on any more fishing sprees this season i think not until the summer.... no interesting things occuring for a while I bet.

BTW how come my wild endlers just settle into my tank and eat flakes right on?

is it sth to do with survival they just have to swallow anything that looks like food to survive in the wild?

01-02-2006, 07:06 PM	#1
micstarz I'm Back! Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Earth Age: 13 Posts: 658	Omg Read This Report! Black Paradise Fish (Macropodus concolor) are present in the marshes, one of which is also the only known site in the SAR for Hydrochidae beetles, as a result of which that particular marsh was recommended for protection (by extension of the country park boundary) in a report on freshwater wetland habitats commissioned by the then Agriculture and Fisheries Department (Dudgeon & Chan, 1996). The author is unaware as to whether any action has been taken on this recommendation. Fish fauna in the streams passing through the area has not been thoroughly surveyed, but on a recent site visit by fish expert Bosco Chan, several individuals of the Bonylip Barb Osteochilus vittatus were observed. There have apparently been no published records of this species in Hong Kong for thirty years. The author has, on two occasions, encountered terrapin traps in the same stream – a sure indication that the critically endangered Three-banded Box Terrapin (Cuora trifasciata) is present (although perhaps not for much longer). A dead specimen of the locally rare Banded Stream Snake (Opisthotropis balteata) was encountered on the village road beside this stream in 1999. The stream is also rich in dragonflies, and was recommended for protected status on the basis of its odonate fauna by Wilson (1997). Two species of Macromia (M. katae and M. urania) are present, while Gynacantha japonica and Macromidia rapida are abundant. __________________

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micstarz I'm Back! Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Earth Age: 13 Posts: 658	The paradise fish and the bonylip barb? WOW! YOU MEAN I COULD GO AND CATCH FREE PARADISE FISH? __________________

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micstarz I'm Back! Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Earth Age: 13 Posts: 658	yep I once saw a something like a bubblenest and some twigs... but I thought it was just the mosquitoes driving me crazy __________________

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01-03-2006, 09:28 AM	#3
TheOldSalt Darth Ichthyos Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 4,253	Apparently so. If you really look around, you'll probably find quite a few intersting species that you can catch.

01-17-2006, 08:01 PM	#7
micstarz I'm Back! Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Earth Age: 13 Posts: 658	yup, indeed so! If there is a bubblenest nearby (I cant take the bubble nest or male, thats a huge impact) and there are weeds, floating algae and stones where is the female most likely to be? __________________

01-18-2006, 07:16 AM	#8
Cichlid Man Super moderator Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 2,100	If you get some you can try and to breed them and and write a journal, that would be cool. I wish I lived somewhere where I could catch fish like that. __________________ If you have a big enough tank with enough hiding places, pH of around 7, you can keep virtually any fish together as long as all the fish are around the same size and these two groups of fish are avioded: Serrasalmus Tetradon(figure eights and dwarfs are the exception). I keep a successful community of fish in a 4 foot tank including the following families: Cichlids, tetras, loaches, gouramis, barbs, rainbows, livebearers, killiefish, catfish, puffers.

01-18-2006, 07:40 AM	#9
MHarris9252 Astronotus ocellatus Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Eglin AFB, FL Age: 26 Posts: 29	Yeah me too, though I have heard of laws in Florida where you can catch up to one SW aquarium fish per year going diving, something like that. I'll have to research that more, it would be really cool to have a fish in my tank that I caught myself straight from it's natural setting. Very cool, that's on my list of things to do before i die.

01-18-2006, 11:05 AM	#10
TheOldSalt Darth Ichthyos Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 4,253	There is no such law. All you have to do is have a state saltwater fishing license and stay out of state parks and other protected areas. You'd need a collector's permit to catch a whole bunch of fish at a time, ( and they aren't going to give you one anyway so don't worry about it ) but you can catch a few for yourself no problem. You cannot collect gamefish species, corals, live rocks, or club-tipped anemones ( the sting of which can kill you ) but everything else is fair game. Try dragging a net through the turtlegrass beds under the bridge going into Destin from FWB on 90, and you'll be amazed by the sheer number of kewl critters you find. A slurpgun can help you bag the fish around the pilings.

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