Hard to break thru

This is my 2nd attempt to break the bars flowers, kalimantan is a stubborn fish. The first attempt failed because I couldnt park the bars at neutral color long enuf to burn the flowers in. Kalimantan adapt to PH very fast no matter high or low. This time I"ll keep doing PH shock to park the bars at neutral colors. I swing the PH from 4 - 7 constantly. Adding plenty of coral chip to elevate the PH and at the same time dumping in vinegar to lower it temporary to the desire PH and then the PH will swing up again in no time.

As witness from this 2 attempt I confirm tanning marulioides will be successful when the colors are parked at neutral. This is the same principle as tanning arowana, We call WTT- White Tank Treatment. In order to tanned arowana we need to park the colors of arowana scale at neutral hence keeping the fish in a white tank to flush out all the color pigment. When the pigment are flush only will the tanning light works on the scale.

Perhaps I may try to do a WTT on marulioides when I've the time to further confirm this theory. But WTT on marulioides will be a little different because getting the B stage to C stage we need strong lights but in the strong light stage we lose the A flowers. Tricky right? That is the reason why it took me 9 months to tuned my sp. Borneo. Too much start stop too much work. But anyhow from this experiment data I hope some adventurous hobbyist can further tune my theory and work out something else to speed up the process.

The picture above shows the formation of flowers:

A - being the very early stage of flowers and also the most unstable. A change in environment will see this disappear quickly.

B - is medium stage, the flowers at this stage is moderately stable, changing to strong lightings will see this transform to C.

C - is final stage, the flowers at this stage is somewhat permanent, but I've seen flowers at this stage disappeared leaving only the black mark minus the white end.

For very young fish we select fish from flower A stage. The more you see this type of scale the better potential is the fish performance. Or you can manipulate the scale into forming flowers by tanning. Best result is choose a good performance fish and manipulate it lol.

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