Indonesia, Jawa Barat, Sukabumi
The making of this Biotope Aquarium Model is based on the main data from the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) research entitled “FISH FAUNA IN GUNUNG HALIMUN NATIONAL PARK AND THE ADJACENT AREA, 2001” and specializes in making goby aquarium models in the Cimaja River closest to the estuary.
Cimaja River is one of the rivers that flows from Mount Halimun National Park to the Indian Ocean. The southern region of Mount Halimun National Park is a unique and very specific area. This area was formed from the geological process “Bayah Dome”, which makes this river seem to have no access to other freshwater rivers on the island of Java. Therefore, this river is inhabited by the amphidromus goby species.
This particular biotope aquarium is focusing on the area near the Marinjung bridge only, according to the fact that the goby fish in the Sungai Cimaja occupy different territories with different water parameters. That is why, for example, I did not place the Sicyopterus lagocephalus and Sicyopterus macrostetolepis species in the tank – because even though they live in the same stream, these big-headed Sicyopterus live attached to the deeper rapids.
In the Cimaja river I also found Lentipes ikeae, Sicyopus rubicundus and Sicyopus exallisquamulus but they live in the upper Cimaja river with lower water temperatures. So I tryed to re-create the exact spot under the Marinjung bridge in order to show this precise location and to contribute to knowledge about Nature, according to the purpose of the biotope aquarium.
- GPS
- -6.9525447, 106.4818420
- Geographical region
- Southeastern Asia
- Drainage Basin
- Bayah Dome River
- River catchment
- Mount Halimun National Park
- Water body type
- River
- Water body name
- Sungai Cimaja
- Water body part
- Open water
- Water body course
- Lower course
- Water body: tributary of
- River
- Tributary name
- Sungai Cimaja
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