FISHIOLOGY

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

The water of Terengganu peat swamp is amazingly soft, the measurement was taken in the monsoon season where the water is generally high. In the dry season the PH should be much lower and the water much darker in tannin.  TDS at 36ppm, in case you wanna know, Kuala Lumpur tap water is between TDS 50ppm - 70ppm. You will need to run an RO unit to achieve the natural TDS. Electric Conductivity is at 74us/cm, EC determines the inorganic dissolved solids examples: NO3, Fe, mg and so on. The reading for natural swamp should be in this range unless there are farming or industrial activity in the surrounding area. Tap water ec is around 60 - 90us/cm. PH is on the high side for black/peat swamp, most probably due to monsoon. Next year dry season will do another round of test to determine the average PH. Some of the Marulioides that did not survive, take note that not all Terengganu's are 9 or 11 bands.   Captured fries Different batch Anothe

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Its been one and a half month since I took care of this batch of marulioides yes they are confirm to be that of Channa Marulioides and we also know that the band comes first before the ocell did. They are all 3" long now and feeding is frozen feeder fish.  The batch in the standard set up tank is at PH3.9, the band can be seen but still very faded the black part is strong.  The batch in the dark tank is at PH4, the band is somewhat clearer, and one thing I notice about fish in this tank is they dont really flock together and they are aggressive towards each others. Appetite is not great as they get nervous when I on the light for feeding. The batch in the sunlight tank is at PH3.9 and they are the brightest of the lot, the band was clearly seen. In fact I noticed flowers had begun to bloom. How to spot flowers blooming and heres the technique. This is I would say the first impression as I observed the lot everyday for few hours and they are taking so

I've always been fascinated with the PBB var Turkana when I first laid my eyes on them in youtube. The thing about them is they swim, yes they swim like a regular fish unlike any lower jaw bichir you see. What intrigue me is why do they possessed this ability when the rest of the clan do not? Could it be because of the depth at lake Turkana or is there something else?  I've been studying the water and the lake with all possible information that I can find online. Polypterus Lapradei enjoys swimming. When the batch of Lapradei had successfully learned to controlled their buoyancy with their lung, they swim a lot, and swimming no longer becomes a struggle.  I was patiently waiting for a batch of wild caught PBB fry for more than a year but with no luck. Finally I bought a batch of captive breed Lapradei Fry at 3" for my experiment seeing them being the closest thing I can find. What I found about the water of lake Turkana surprises me, it is a salt lake,