FISHIOLOGY

When the fish is finally settle I started flower treatment with the same procedure : CO2 injection of one bubble per second, Lighting T5 10k High output + 24W LED white.  PH5.5 Temp 28.5c Conditioner: RIO Humic Dissolved Organic Carbon and RIO Light tannin As you can see new white spec flowers are starting to form all over.

   

  Testing this new filtration that can instantly lower tap water from  PH7 to PH3.6. This will be very useful when keeping maru at PH4, I can now do daily water change without affecting my PH.  Water change has always been the contradicting factor, we cant keep NO3, NH4 and PH down at the same time.

  This is a recent acquired Terengganu Variant, tragically my 2 ganu died, entirely my fault when transferring tank, ok not in the mood to talked about them, 2 years wasted for a real flower. Anyway as a complimentary mood enhancer, I got myself an 11 inch substitute , very potential pc but doesnt look like a real flower but rather snakeskin type I think. Not entirely sure, but we'll see how it progress.

PH reading of the Black waters of the Marulioides Trengganu Variant swamp I came across a post discussing this topic today, or rather a group of hobbyist bragging that PH is not important when keeping Marulioides. So lets discuss on this matter shall we. Keeping your fish alive and keeping your fish to its optimum level is 2 different thing entirely. A true fish lover will research the species they intend to keep and respect the fundamental rules that nature had designed and its intention. The responsibility of an aquarist is to inherent the rules that was set on. A task he takes seriously before even deciding to placed the fish under his care.  Marulioides thrived on tropical swamp wetland. And tropical swamp waters are known as Blackwaters. Blackwaters are low in PH, low in dissolved oxygen, high in carbon dioxide. These are the characters of Blackwater.  Although there isn't any international fish police that had created any laws that says marulioides cannot be kept in PH7 ...

Puteri 2 is my most anticipated Marulioides, I've been waiting to get my hands on a true plum flower trait Terengganu. Puteri 2 was caught in the month of Nov 2018 and my collector managed to get the parent fish as well for sampling but unfortunately the adult fish did not survive. The parent fish is of the plum flower trait. The parent fish displaying plum flower trait I've put a great deal of effort on this fish for the first 12 months, grooming it to be a true beauty. But unfortunately after that I was too caught up with my work. I really couldn't spare more time, grooming marulioides takes a lot of time and attention. In the end I was forced to comm the fish in the big tank.  To make matter worse, theres a Giant Borneo Gourami in the tank that wreak havoc causing the fish to loss almost all the flowers, all my hard work down the drain. It will be ashamed to lose the true plum flower this way, it is now around 14" and I can still see the potential in this p...

To answer the common question: Do we need to put salt into our tank after water change? Salt is present in 97.5% of all water found on earth, and only 2.5% are freshwater. And of the 2.5% of freshwater only 0.3% are found on the surface on Earth that made up of lakes and rivers. Millions of years throughout evolution, there evolved fishes that are adapted to freshwater. Natural freshwater tropical swamp or stream water in the jungle are so pure condition with Nitrate reading's at 0ppm. TDS reading can be as low as 14ppm. For your information Malaysia's tap water TDS reading is around 50-70ppm. Meanwhile African lakes TDS reading can go from 400 - 2500ppm with a PH9 reading. Brackish water TDS reading around 10,000ppm and finally Seawater TDS reads at around 35,000ppm. TDS taken at Trengganu peat swamp TDS = Total Dissolved Solid, PPM = Parts Per Million When we set up an aquarium, the best thing we can offer our fishes is to replicate as close as we possibly can o...