FISHIOLOGY

This is the very beginning of flower formation, notice the shimmer in the scale usually around the  the band. I've chosen to show this pic because it is quite obvious and it is easier for you guys to take note and observed. Usually it is not this obvious. Now to share a little secrets on how to choose a champion fish, notice this fish has 6 bands, and the shimmer reaches the 6th band counting from tail to head. So this will be a very potential fish with flowers growing in the whole length of the fish.  2nd rule is the height of the flowers, it is growing at the full height of the band and this will reflect a very big portion of the fish having flowers, length plus height. When you spot this at the lfs, dont think, dont blink, straight pack the fish as you've got a winner. Another thing I need you all to understand is what I'm saying here is a fast bloomer like this particular fish. There are of coz slow bloomer which does not rule out the rest of the pack o

I will try to document the earliest formation of the flowers. We can witness how flowers formed, and that is if i can really push them to bloom. So we shall see if this works. Take note of the shimmer or white patches, those are the beginning of the scales changing. Today is the 2nd day of tanning and we can see the flowers begins to form. Its quite tedious to balance the amount of light against so many tails. One fish is easier to control as you can tailor the hours to just 1 fish as all of them respond differently.

I've started the tanning experiment on local marulioides, it is a little bit early as the ocell has not fully formed yet. What I'm hoping to achieved here is to see if the tanning starts at this tender age when the color changing ability has not taken place, will the scales be more easily manipulated? Will they shut off the color changing ability and just gets burned off when they are weak. Some of the marulioides had hints of flowers forming at this young age, and I think it is very possible to began the tanning experiment on them. But I've to tread with care as young flowers are easily destroyed if not properly cared. I've selected 7 tails for this experiment those that are showing less early flowers development. I'm starting this with the strong HO T5 to quickly burned the scales and lets see where this will lead us.  Previously I've tried tanning local marulioides with no success. But that was before I discovered that they need to be parked at neutral co

This project was back in 2014, Kitty Lai wanted to know if I still have it to groom Arowana fish. So I picked a so so XB which I bid only for RM400. Its not a fish which you will find appetizing, the fish has slight PLJ, crossed barbel, very thin/translucent gold.  unformed pearlies  Very transluscent gold  crossed barbel Pictures above are what the seller sent me  Fished Arrived First Day fish in my tank First fixed was having the barbel cut and take note of the slight PLJ PLJ - Protruding Lower Jaw 2 weeks later in the dark tank, gold become more intense and I needed to pump the fish up to reduce the PLJ effect. Tanning project begins and when I went to find for tanning lights only did I realized how long it had been since I left the Arowana scene. TFC factory had closed down, for your information TFC T8 light is one of the best tanning light for arowana. I asked all the shop and they say everyone is using LED tanning light. Forget about