Kelakai treatment update

When I've first heard of the kelakai rumours, I thought it was strange and I did some research. Turns out I stumbled upon some rather interesting facts about this simple plant. It was food for the local people and traditionally it has medication or more like tonic properties. Kelakai is Stenochlaena palustris.

Many studies had been done and from these data there are something I found that it could all be possibly to the kelakai theory. The test of Red kelakai shows 20x more content of anthocyanins as to the green kelakai.

Anthocyanins is a natural colorant responsible for the red, purple and orange in plants. At low PH it will stabilized at the red hue. Of how do we administer this, well I've no idea. I tried gut load to ghost shrimp and they seem to have no interest of the fronds. For the time being I've soak the dried Red Kelakai to the water. From 2 of the experiment I did

at PH4 the fish glows with a maroon hue. The fish then was around 7" and too small to conclude the result as smaller fish naturally will not have strong colors.

Orangy highlights below lateral line

The 2nd test was done when the fish is 9" at PH4.5 for 1 month and the fish responded with orangy scales presents below lateral line.

Only red Kelakai is use for this experiment.

I cannot conclude the experiment as I lack the data of kalimantan Marulioides color trait. So far non responded to my question if Kalimantan Var do have orange scales.

I will continue with this test and see how far it effect the fish color. The next step I will need to gut load it to something and feed. With oral indirect administration perhaps the result will be more significant. Until then stay tune for more updates.

Meantime you can google - Stenochlaena palustris anthocyanins for further studies.

Comments

The science behind Channa Marulioides colors and pattern

Channa Marulioides is the chameleon of the fish, they are the champion when comes to color changing abilities. In a split second they can change from greenish brown to yellow and to orange. They can change their eye color from black to bright red. Observe your Channa Marulioides and you can see they greet you with bright yellow colors doing the maru dance, they flashes their bands to the highest contrast. The body colors are intense and their eyes bright vampire red in colors. When they are tone down and just swim about their business you notice the color is dull when they are in mid water, and suddenly sinking to the bottom with bright orange (depending on the var and PH) they keep changing and flashing their bands and patterns. But the black and white flowers will remain so in whichever mood they display. Also take note that maru shows their best colors mostly at midnight. Each Channa Marulioides comes in its own unique pattern of bands and flowers, like a fingerprint, I beli

Tanning Marulioides

Another way you can bloom the flower of your marulioides is with the tanning technique. First lets understand a little bit about the flower. The flower is actually a dead pixel, marulioides are very unique fish, they possessed the ability to change color at will like a chameleon. But when the flower is formed that scale is spoiled and no longer changes color, it cannot get darker or lighter. As mentioned many times marulioides caught in river or big water always shows minimal flower, maru caught in dead water like peat swamp shows maximum flowers. Maru would need the color changing ability to survive, they can change color to hunt and to escape from predators. Meanwhile maru living in black dead water swamp do not need the color changing ability as much or maybe the low PH somehow destroy the color changing ability and the result will be plentiful of flowers or plenty of spoiled scale. I've done experiment on maru living in fast cycled tank and they lose the flowers or in ano

Marulioides Care Part 1 (Bunga)

I've been reluctant to write this but many had asked me to post how to take care of marulioides for maximum performance. The truth is you need to abused it, hence Marulioides care isn't exactly the correct terms to use. Channa Marulioides is found in most part of malaysia, lakes, pond, streams, rivers, but one thing most fisherman realized are those caught in swamp, I mean really dead stagnant peat swamp. Waters that are near black in color most time the fish had tremendous performance, beautiful colors and a lot of flowers. From this theory many tried replicating the conditions with low ph and so on. I've experiment many ways of keeping marulioides and I can concur to this, Low PH meaning Ph5 and below, I usually keeps mine ard PH4 or maybe lower, because my test kit can only measure till 4 and cant read anything lower. Low PH produce beautiful coloration. As for the bunga, yes everybody wants to know this, there is no tricks, just lots and lots of experiment. It i

FISHIOLOGY

Search This Blog