Monday we returned to the Mamoni River, hoping for a better collecting outcome than the last trip of a couple weeks before.
Two weeks ago in the Rio Chorera , we couldn’t locate any fish we wanted, only Tetras that are usually riddled with Lernaea parasites.
We did find plenty Characins Monday too, but all were released, except the Sanbalo (one of the large Brycons (tetra) species found here), which Dani kept to cook for his family dinner.
It is the midst of the dry season here in Panama, and we able to drive right on to the exposed stoney river bed, because rivers normal depth appeared to be down at least a couple feet from the norm.
Turbidity was also high, so the ability to photo under water was less than optimum. But I like to document, the real aquascape here, just to compare.
Other than a little algae, most plants are terrestrial, those that can tolerate occasional inundation.
The 1st, and only cichlid caught was a juvie Darienheros calobrense.
Over the next few hours, we caught a number gobies, (2 Awaous, and a Sicydium species), which were kept, but a moderately large Gobiomorus predetary species, was let go. Awaous beellow.
The sanbalo
And Dani also netted a tiny fresh water flounder (he calls) una Lengada), very small, went into the planted sump.
Two weeks ago in the Rio Chorera , we couldn’t locate any fish we wanted, only Tetras that are usually riddled with Lernaea parasites.
We did find plenty Characins Monday too, but all were released, except the Sanbalo (one of the large Brycons (tetra) species found here), which Dani kept to cook for his family dinner.
It is the midst of the dry season here in Panama, and we able to drive right on to the exposed stoney river bed, because rivers normal depth appeared to be down at least a couple feet from the norm.
Turbidity was also high, so the ability to photo under water was less than optimum. But I like to document, the real aquascape here, just to compare.
Other than a little algae, most plants are terrestrial, those that can tolerate occasional inundation.
The 1st, and only cichlid caught was a juvie Darienheros calobrense.
Over the next few hours, we caught a number gobies, (2 Awaous, and a Sicydium species), which were kept, but a moderately large Gobiomorus predetary species, was let go. Awaous beellow.
The sanbalo
And Dani also netted a tiny fresh water flounder (he calls) una Lengada), very small, went into the planted sump.
