River jaunt in Penang-----Local species

Our team has been off to a few river jaunt this November and December, we have explore some streams and rivers around the forest in Penang searching for native species of aquatic animals.In this article, we would show you some of the exotic species we caught during the jaunt

Unidentified shrimps (we decide to call it sand shrimp)

Lots of different species in them, platy, mollies, feeder carp, peacock, wild guppy,  and etc

From the left is Pseudogobiopsis oligactis (we call it as river sand goby), wild paddy eel, and betta pugnax

The fish and shrimps in the photos above is caught during our river jaunt at a small streams in November, those are just parts of our caught , we do caught some blue lobster, banana shrimps, chocolate gourami , halfbeak and etc , we didn't manage to take pictures on every species.



Pictures of the sand shrimp

Notice the long pincer

Read our articles about this shrimp on The Unidentified Shrimp.

Pictures of the river sand goby

We will be releasing articles about this freshwater goby in the future. A nice addition to any tanks with soft sand substrates.

Pictures of penang betta (betta pugnax) and paddy eel