Indonesia is home to a wide variety of different beautiful animals, among them you’ll find the in aquariums popular clown loach? The origin of the clown loach, Chromobotia macracanthus fka botia macracanthus, is the two largest Indonesia islands, Sumatra and Borneo. Hailing from fast moving waters the clown loach prefers aquariums with a lot of current.
Indonesia is located on both sides of the equator in South Eastern Asia and Oceania. It is comprised of over 17,500 islands of which roughly 6,000 are inhabited by man. The most well known of all 17500 islands are Borneo, Java, New Guinea, Sumatra and Sulawesi. Borneo is shared with Malaysia and Brunei and the name Kalimantan is used when referring to just the Indonesian part of the island. Indonesia share New Guinea with Papau New Guinea.
The Monsoons affect the weather a lot on Indonisia which has a dry and a wet season. The average temperature varies little throughout the year and you can expect it to stay around 26-30°C (79-86°F) during the day.
Indonesia has the worlds second highest biodiversity after Brazil. The biodiversity is in part due to the fact that the Asian and the Australian Faune meet in Indonesia. 40% of all mammals in Indonesia are endemic to the area and so are a lot of plant, fish, bird and insect species.
Indonesia is located where the tectonic plates of Australia, Euroasia and the Pacific meets, which make it prone to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Indonesia is home to 150 active vulcano among which the most famous are Krakatoa and Tambora who both have had devestating eruptions during the 19th century. There is a positive side the the vulcanos however and that is that it is nutrient rich vulcanic ash from the vulcanos that allow the rich plant life in the region.
A part of Indonesia is called Sundaland by zoologists and this area is similar to the naearby Asian mainland. The freshwater bodies of the region is home to about 1000 described fish species with new ones being discovered every year.
The island Sulawesi and the Maluku archipelago in known as Wallacea and is located between Sundaland and the Australian zone to the east. Parts of the Nusa Tenggara islands are also considered Wallacea territory by zoologists. Wallacea is home to 300 fish species among which 25% are endemic to the area. There are for instance seven endemic goby species and two endemic species of halfbeak living in South Sulawesi. The Maluku archipelago and Nusa Tenggara is still far from thoroughly explored by science so you can expect to add many new endemic species to the list during coming years.