FISHIOLOGY

Both side development progress

There seem to be a trend growing for the Pahang Toman Bunga or Channa marulioides from Pahang. As far as I know Pahang produce the worse Toman Bunga, they lack in colors and flowers. Many had asked me if their recent bought Pahang Marulioides is from Pahang, I will tell them Pahang Perak Selangor and all over Malaysia is unidentifiable. They are just the common Malaysian Marulioides.   Wild caught Pahang   Wild caught Pahang Wild caught Pahang The above images are wild caught Pahang from my collector. As you can see there is no way you can ID them apart from the rest of the clan, or the common cb marulioides you buy for RM10. However, I had a long chat with my collector during our Terengganu expeditions and I discovered a very interesting secret about the Pahang Marulioides. Apparently there is a hidden gem at the very edge of the state of Pahang that my collector told me about. He was there a few years back looking for new grounds and they had stumbled upon a swam

This is one of the 6pcs that I'm grooming, this fella is somehow darker in color. Before it turned dark

Kelakai re-experiment with : 14" kalimantan PH6 5" Terengganu PH5 The focus of this experiment is to gather data if kelakai will help to color up the fish and how far it can work. My previous experiment with the smaller Kalimantan had orangy tint on the scale below the lateral line. Both this fish as you can see do not have any orangy tint, we shall see if the previous experiment was the effect of the Kelakai or its just the original trait of the Kalimantan. We will also add in the Terengganu, given that it is still a bit too young to color up but what the heck since I've too many Terengganus to experiment with. Day 1 Day 1

As per my request to my collector for more samples of Terengganu Marulioides I'm glad he took the task seriously and after our expedition he had ventured into more areas to get more samples of the Terengganu Marulioides. As shown previously of the river marulioides collected 50km south of the variant Terengganu habitat Last weekend he went the other way 100km southeast of the variant Terengganu habitat and returned with the below samples. Now these really blurs the line of the variant Terengganu. As from the above image, the scale flowers has some adjoining type on the black spotting, the finnage is typical Var. Terengganu, but they have lesser band. At the variant Terengganu site I have not seen a single piece with 4 bands, the lease of them are 5 wide bands. Where else the river type has shorter and lesser bands but still clearly chevron pattern bands. Typical of river marulioides or open water marulioides they have less flower naturally. Lets hope

One of the question I get most of the time; "Is pellet good for my fish?" well it depends on what fish we're talking here and what type of pellet we're discussing. I'm a predator fish keeper and predator fish like Arowanas, Snake Heads, Datnoids, big Cats, Peacock Bass and most fishes with sharp teeth are carnivorous fish. Carnivorous fish have a short intestinal tract, and a large stomach to hold their prey. Their digestive system has no ability to digest vegetable matter, so even though they might eat plants, they cannot extract nutrients from them. They are design to consume animal protein. They required a diet of at least 45 - 70% protein.  Protein should be the main component in the diet of carnivorous species of fish. Carbohydrates like starch, gluten, sugar and cellulose also provide energy. Typically, carbohydrates enter the body via plant matter so most carnivorous species of fish do not get, nor do they require, a high level of carbohydrate in th