Herman and his team recently managed to catch several Betta tomi during a survey in South East Johor area. An undisturbed and undiscovered habitat was first invaded by his team two months ago. I will show the photos of the habitat once Herman finishes his article… but first, a glance of the fishes!

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Well as promised and at last, this is our latest expedition to South East Johor to carry out our fish survey of the area together with ourt friends from Wetlands Int (M), Sinor and Flora.

We left KL in the afternoon and reached Kota Tinggi by 3pm. Of course no trip to Kota Tinggi and Panti would be complete without a visit to my dear crypt friends along the Pnati area. As usuall, I was all excited to see my dear friends, but to my shock we found that most of the C.schulzei at the Panti Recreational park had been dug out to make way for a small canal. So what else? Rescue time! We just managed to take a few clumps of drying rhizomes and half dead plants back to the zoo…and of course my house. Hopefully the would survive. Cant believe those guys actually dug a trench all along the stream, uprooting hundreds of them out. Hopefuly when the rain comes again, they would survive.

After that heart wrenching scene, we headed down to the resort, passing by the sand mining road that leads to the Paros alfredii site.  We would be visiting it the next day. By the time we reached the resort, it was time to Buka Puasa with my guys….oooo yummy seafood!!!

Next morning, we got up early and got our equipment ready. This time we would be taking 2 boats. One team would be doaing the hook and line method to catch bigger fish while the other would head upstream with scoop nets.

The biotope.