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  1. AkmalMay 31, 2021 at 8:51 PM

    Since you've said fish that came from blackwater swamps were prettier then river specimens and that this may be due to the different oxygen and co2 content in the water, ive been wondering. Wouldn't in those different habitats also have different prey species for the Marus to eat? Could a diet consisting of blackwater fishes and other animals have an effect on flower developement?

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    1. AkmalMay 31, 2021 at 8:53 PM

      Blackwater fishes usually have much darker and even black coloured scales, while riverine fish usually have lighter colour scales.

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    2. MoorishJune 4, 2021 at 9:21 PM

      I've done converting from a low O2, low PH tank to a high O2 high PH tank and the fish losses its bunga

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  2. AfiJuly 3, 2021 at 2:33 PM

    Hi Moorish,learn a lot from your blog here. Thanks for all the useful knowledge. I got one question if you don't mind. Do you ever feed your maru kerang? Some of people i know feed their arowana kerang,and they said it is good for the fish. But i never found specific maru keeper that feed their maru kerang. Search a lot on youtube and just asked the question in facebook but nobody said they ever feed one to their channa..would like to know your opinion on this

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    1. MoorishJuly 4, 2021 at 12:51 AM

      Thank you....
      Why wanna feed kerang should be the question?
      since you brought this up once I started feeding sotong, as I see maru can change colors easily and I wanted to experiment if by feeding sotong what is the effect, after 3 months like no different only. Squid abilities to change colors bcoz theyve chromatophores, and I was wondering if this would help. Perhaps maybe if I were to experimen on more maru I may get some results.

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  3. mattJuly 5, 2021 at 4:22 PM

    hi moorish ,u got 1 nice piece over there. do you mind sharing any reputable maru seller.

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