^ If he's Cambodian in his terms he's making a lot of money unfortunately.
I must admit I’m skeptical but I’m not disregarding this as nonsense. I would expect they’ll end up in Chatuchack (jj) market here in Bangkok if they’re still out there in any numbers. I went yesterday after reading this and spoke to the guy who always has NTTs in great numbers; he gets them from the Mekong at Nakorn Pratom on the border of Laos. He said “never seen them”. There is quite a lot of border between Cambodia and Thailand, so if there is money to be made they’ll be here soon.
A few vendors had small fish exactly like the pictures on the linked web site, they were selling them as STs, but under questioning admitted they were indo but they were adamant they were exactly like STs and were willing to argue.
My own thoughts, not long ago and Indonesian poster told us all of how many indos had been caught while I was trying to follow up rumors of farm bred here. He said there were too many and the middle man couldn’t sell them. Based on what I saw yesterday I think the high quality 3 bar indos have been separated and are now being touted as STs, there were quite a few. I also find it strange how T1K has documented slight differences in ST and CT but the image here shows none. In addition on a very old thread started by a Thai guy about STs and captive breeding, he also wrote there were differences. He wasn’t lying about anything IMHO, apart from fish being bred in captivity, they’re not, but I believe they’re close. He wrote the research facility in Bungborapetch was using some CT for attempted breeding purposes, but not for release in the wild. I also think is a strange coincidence there was another thread made by someone claiming to have baby STs caught in northern Vietnam on the border of Thailand, when it’s not even a bordering country. As T1k pointed out the pictures have now been removed. I understand now why everyone was asking me for Photos, I now want to see them. I hope it is ST, I really do. But after chasing ghosts here I’m skeptical.
STs are the holy grail of the Dat world. I bet there **** load of em in Elvis’s pond, and him and Bruce Lee love nothing more than fishing them out with a few beers! LOL
