Greetings from Thailand

bettawan

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Sawatdee Khrap....( Hello )

I'm Jeff, from the Uk originally, I have been in Thailand for the last 6 years. We are lucky, we have 2 large lakes either side of our home we rent and both are filled with Wild/Thai freshwater species including Giant Gourami's, Koi, Roach, Rudd, Several Species of Catfish, Golden Price Carp, 3 kilo + Paca, a couple of 3ft Aligator Gar and also many other species but I'm not sure what they are.

1. This lake belongs to my wifes family who we rent our home from. This pic is taken from the top end from the garden.



2. Same lake but pic taken from bottom end.



3. This is the village lake with our home to the right. This lake provides our village with all our water needs except for drinking water. This pic was taken in August 2 years ago before the rains came. Both lakes usually break their banks at the end of the rainy season, usually end of October/November. But saying that only beginning of last month when the rains started we where hit by flash floods at 4am in the morning, while we where sleeping. We where awoken to a big splash noise, which was our wardrobe..I jumped out of bed and was stood in 1ft of water...everyroom was flooded and we had fish swimming everywhere...3 ilb Golden Price Carp where jumping out of the water in the rooms as they mated and once the water subsided and we started the job of cleaning up we discovered millions and millions of eggs...but they where destroyed due



Right me off to see what the rest of you are up to on the forum...

Laeo phop kan na.....( See You Later )

Regards
Jeff & Wan
 

macvsog23

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Sawatdee Khrap Jeff
Welcome to the no one good web site for Plecos.
I am like you a fan of SEA

We spent 4 weeks in Thailand in March.
I did live in SEA during the early 1970,s and enjoyed it.
Regards Bob
Hope you have fun at this site
 

bigbird

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Sawatdee Khrap Jeff and Wan,

I live in thailand for 5 years but was very young only from age 5 to 10. Love the people and country. great stuff. cop cun cah ( bad spelling but so it is )
How are your leaves going ? cheers jk :thumbup:
 

scatz

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:hi:
just to break the routine, i've never lived in Thailand lol, but judging by the pics, i can certainly see why you would.
its great to have you both on board, welcome
 

bettawan

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Hi All,

Thanks for all the welcomes...i have many a tale to tell with lots of pics of my time in Thailand to-date so watch this space has they say....