Was or is the biggest freshwater fish in the world ...
Unless that strange thing caught in the Yellow River has been found and classified? Oh and MEASURED!
Nice to see these and a bit if a surprise too!
I must go back, hopefully in the next 4 to 6 weeks, and take a better camera as there were many things I did not expect top see.
Better still would be to speak to people behind the scenes about their Alytes muletensis and Euproctus, or Callotriton or whatever they are now, platycephalus breeding programmes!
Another one of my favourites and this time a Cichlid from Lake Tanganyika is this stunningly beautiful fish.
These will one day occupy two, two metre aquariums owned by me with the two most favourite fish of mine in each also from Lake Tanganyika ...
Cyathopharynx furcifer and various Tropheus of moorii mainly along with duboisi, brichardi, sp. RED and sp. BLACK ...
For God sake bloody name the damn things properly damn you! Lol!
Oh I think they are 'leptosoma'?
I love that lake and would love to venture there one day!
I was already very highly knowledgeable on fish, amphibians and other animals at the age of 16 as my Dad haad a famous pet shop and we were importers when I visited another importer and saw a tank full of Tropheus moorii 'Kaiser' and was stopped in my tracks!
I spent year killing several types before an author named Ad Konings, I spoke to years later, pointed out in his first book that bloodworm block their intestines and kills them!
A few years later I saw Cyathopharynx furcifer and to my shock that just pipped Tropheus moorii at becoming my favourite fish!
Up until then I had loved the North American Rainbow Dace and Darters, Killifish and varoius other mouth brooding Cichlids like Egyptian Mouthbreeders, Dwarf Cichlids and various others.
Amphibians were always y absolute number one thing but these and many others played a close second to these ...
Like Green Tree Pythons, Chondropythoin, noooo CHONDROPYTHON, (Morelia) viridis. SOme of the European Lacertids, like Wall Lizards, Gila Monsters and Beaded Dragons, Plumed Basilisks and others.
Well, well, well ... an old favourite of mine here and something I have not seen in a long time!
In fact the last one might have been Andrias japonicus which would make this the first time I have seen this species?
The friend I was with has a free pass to London Zoo, not been in there myself in twenty years I imagine, maybe longer. He is always looking at this one and said he only ever sees its back end and never its head.
I crouched down in my amazement and passion, pressed my head up to the glass and he or she backed out, turned around and came straight up to the glass to face me, lol.
Do not worry, I will hopefully return with a much better camera within 4 to 6 weeks? Fingers crosssed!
After several exclamations about it walking straight up to the glass to face me I said that maybe we were two kindred spirits and it sensed that? LOL!
Fascinatingly beautiful.
Would like to have seen one at twice the size but it was a special moment all the same!
These London Zoo videos were filmed a couple of months back and I kept forgetting to upload them ...
I have something called Fibrofog from a condition called Fibromyalgia that causes a lot of pain along with embarrassing things too ... 120 odd all told.
Doesn't include my Oesophagitis, Hiatus Hernia, damaged right knee though.
The NHS wrongly diagnosed me and then kept the real diagnosis from me when they realised for what I thought was 13 years. I later realised it was closer to 20 years!
That along with something that courts, councils and others did that went back 20 years and then turned into a court case over 3 years was why I got involved in sniffing out corruption, recording it mostly by sound and some video and started up my corruption blog.
To my surprise the next thing I knew, well after several years of recording, the corruption and lies were everywhere and I haad over 100GB of collected data.
Could be more than 150GB now? Not counted it up in a fair old while.
WAs happy here as I thought my endeavours in this subject were about to take me away on a very long journey?
It has stalled! LOL ...groan! Likely stopped completely. Only time will tell.
