petro from kigoma

[tanganyikadiver]

the most agressive petro i have ever seen in lake tanganyika was even scaring the "kasumbe"and "polyodon" but he looks very impressive....

greetings

[tanganyikadiver]

and some more petro's

greetings

[cyatide]

Thank you very much for sharing these wonderful pictures!!!

[tanganyikadiver]

thanks cyatide. i had a wonderful time diving in the lake again. the 4 weeks went way to fast....

[sidguppy]

I don't think I'll be surprising anyone here if I yell:

WE

WANT

LOADS

OF

UNDERWATERPIX

can't wait to see many more fish and hear more details at where you went, if you saw and pictured non cichlids, went on a deep water dive and saw any rarities and on and on

[tanganyikadiver]

hi.
yes i got plenty of catfish pics this time as i also went nightdiving. i had a perfect time as i took nice pictures of a beautifull shrimp and of trematocara zebra! i was just writing an article for the polish cichlid magazine so will not post the pictures yet.


greetings
evert

[Lisachromis]

Then show us the ugly shots then! I'm sure your bad shots are 1000X times better than my good ones.

[tanganyikadiver]

hi,
what i like a lot at kigoma is the abundance of different goby cichlids:
eretmodus sp
spathodus erythrodon
spathodus marlieri
tanganicodus irsacae
swimming all together!
of all these goby's s. marlieri is the most shy.

[Neok]

Very cool pics!! Thanks for sharing! You don't by any chance have some video's?

[Lisachromis]

Yup.. if those are your ugly shots, I was wrong! They are 10000000 times better than my best ones.

Love those gobies...

[THORLEIFDK]

Very cool pics!! Thanks for sharing! You don't by any chance have some video's?

some videos from my trip:
http://www.youtube.com/user/THORLEIFDK
best regards
Carsten

[tanganyikanhunt]

Thanks so much for the pictures, Evert!

Was that last eret from Kigoma?

Thanks

Tony

[tanganyikadiver]

hello taganyikanhunt.

yes the last one is eretmodus sp. north.
i will submit another pic.
and one of a small lates.

greetings
evert

[tanganyikadiver]

ok...these are not petro's...but think you still enjoy...

greetings
evert

[cyatide]

Thank you again, Evert, for these very interesting and beautiful pictures!!!

If these are the not your best pictures, I can't imagine how much amazing could be them
Anyway these are more than enough heigh quality for us, I believe, so keep posting if you can, please!

Paolo

PS) Are all these fishes from the Kigoma area?

[tanganyikadiver]

hi paolo,
most of my dives were 40-50m deep so i also got some special fish on camera. and i did some nightdiving so lots of catfish at the time. but as my article for the polish magazine will be about nightdiving i can not reveal that...

the one thing that was very impressive was this big school of barbs(?). thousands of them surrounding me'; something i only had seen in oceans...if anyone knows the name of the fish..?!! the fish were about 30-40cm.

and a very nice fish from the "deep". lamp ventralis is always nice to see.

and yes all these pics are kigoma area. lets see almost from gombe to ujiji river....


but ..hope you can enjoy these too.

[cyatide]

Wonderful pics, again thanks!!!!

All very nice fishes, but that school of barbs is actually very impressive

I was wondering why this macrops Callochromis has never been exported yet (at least to my knowledge)!

Paolo

[tanganyikadiver]

hi,
here some pics of also xeno's from deeper region. i found them at around 45+ meters deep.

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[noddy]

Thanks for the amazing photos, I think you have just positively I.D'd my Furcifer.

[sidguppy]

you would really blow me away with pictures of catfish......

underwaterpix of catfish from Tanganyika are in short supply; most people who go there tend to suffer from extreme tunnelvision: tanganyikan fish = cichlid = tanganyikan fish.