Promised land
See nature
September 2, 2010 at 11:37 am
C. striolata video
Tags: borneo, C. striolata, sarawak, Video
September 2, 2010 at 11:17 am
C. pallidinervia video
Hunting C. pallidinervia in raining season, video shot with my old mini DV video cam.
September 1, 2010 at 9:37 pm
Paros sp Stunggang video
Tags: Paros sp stunggang, sarawak, VideoSeptember 1, 2010 at 7:35 pm
Padang expedition video – C. ciliata
We fetched the boys to find out what crypts hiding beneath the water and not to my surprise, it’s C. ciliata.
August 20, 2010 at 11:42 am
C. schelzei of Mersing
Back to the site we often neglected and we’re glad to found out the C. schulzei is doing well and so do the plants growing together. Water level was pretty low to our surprise since dry season was abundant this year.
We found this patch of crypts was fully exposed to the sun.
The biotope, crystal clear water is flowing out of the virgin forest. Ph is around 6 and sandy based substrate.
The spathe.
Utricularia graminifolia is abundant here.
Eriocaulons robustius is a member of 400 species in Eriocaulon (pipewort) genus. This is a one of the popular foreground plant for landscaping.
August 17, 2010 at 4:19 pm
C. nurii of mersing
C. nurii found in this region look different from the one found in central Pahang. It has sharper leaves where the other one has rounded one regardless of how strong is the water current, the leave stays rounded.
The miniature nurii found at the first location, the leaves measured about 2-3cm in length with vibrant metallic like color at the edge and the tiger marking look simply stunning. The stream has a sandy based substrate with PH 6.
Second location, the plant having much larger in form found in a small river. The leaves stays sharp and I notice some interesting metallic red spots on it.
The biotope.
Brachygobius doriae a.k.a Bumblebee goby can also be found in the river.
August 17, 2010 at 12:25 pm
Natural heritage of Selangor
Development with Destruction is a fact but maybe not all the case when we saw a housing estate developing company name SP Setai bhd who creates an example by developing a luxury housing estate on an oil palm estate and aiming to protect a small piece of natural heritage surrounding the area. Based on the person in charge, they have no intention to develop the green piece even though they are permitted to do so. I hope this agenda and promises will be kept, for as long as it can. Working together with the naturalist groups is the best way to neutralize or minimize the threat to our nature environment.
The company invited teams of naturalist from various group to explore the forest hoping to find out more information on the flora and fauna residing in it and promoting to the area is also part of the agenda.
We had a wonderful breakfast at the club house.
This was a piece of oil palm estate but clearing for housing estate.
Multi-million houses.
Embarking into the forest.
The most exciting part of the expedition was when we discovered C. minima, we call it the “Crypts of Selangor”.
Here is a healthy and promising patch of plants.
Bullated leaves.
Aglaonema simplex is found abundantly here.
Scindapsus pictus is an ornamental gripper.
Schismatoglottis calyptrata?
Eurycoma longifolia a.k.a Tongkat ali is believed be an aphrodisiacs and widely consumed by the native.
The footprint of the Tapirus indicus a.k.a Malayan Tapir, also called the Asian Tapir. Its the true resident of the forest. This’s kinda weird creature by having four toes on the front legs and three at the back.
We have been told to follow this marker and the driver should fetch us at the other site of the forest, we did exactly what had been instructed but unfortunately we still lost in the jungle for two hours, reason being the forestry department also put the same marking along the way and lead us to no way.
Some interesting shots along the way.
August 5, 2010 at 11:18 am
Paros sp Stunggang
I’m a bit surprised when I heard from Daron’s that only two Paros species are identified in Sarawak at the moment, among them are P. allani and P. sp stunggang. But I believed they’re many more still hiding from our eyes and awaits us to discover them in this large state.
It was a raining season hence catching fish was extremely difficult and I have absolutely zero fishing modes when I saw the swollen river. I knew we are not going to catch anything in such condition but somehow Herman fishing spirits brought us one little beautiful male.
I’m still having this guy in my tank, will try to shot more photo of it soon.
August 5, 2010 at 10:46 am
Not a paros alfredi?
I really wanted to find the answer after some reader doubt about its identity, but I can certainly confirm that this fish is not P. nagyi due its long pelvic filament.
The pelvic filament can be clearly seen in the photo below.
Please tell us your view.
August 2, 2010 at 6:23 pm
Fishing in Kuala Rompin
Fishing Betta coccina complex species is somehow unique, when stream and Small River are disappeared in dry season; the only way to catch them is through small puddles in the peat swamp. We some time dig a hole in the middle of the dried stream, wait and come back in half an hour time for fishing, you will be surprised with the result sometime.
A potential fishing spot.
Guess what stuck in the net?
And yes, we caught Betta tussyae.
And other fish like Clarias leiacanthus is a typical black water catfish.
Besides fish, Herman discovered this interesting Cardisoma sp nearby, Cardisoma belongs to the family of Gecarcinidae that adapted to terrestrial existence a.k.a land crab. These crabs having special equipped gills that can extract oxygen from the air but travel back to sea periodically for breeding.
Herman caught a pair of these but later reported eaten by rat at his home, sigh!
-
Galleries
