FISHIOLOGY

I've many people asking me how to set up a CO2 system so I'll just share my simple setup as a guide for you guys. Setting up multiple tank from a single source of CO2 is proving to be a pain, I tried balancing with ordinary aerator splitter, metal lever and plastic screw type and it never work. Or I ended up with the hose exploding out from the splitter when the pressure got intensed. In the end I gave up and found a shop that sells regulator splitter head and this works like a charm. So dun waste your time doing what I did. And I did not know that technology had advanced tremendously, there is now such thing as atomizer that produces extremely fine bubbles to maximize CO2 absorption. And you will need a bubble counter with the atomizer as you wont know how much CO2 is going into your tank. You will have many choices to choose the size of your canister, usually from 0.5liter to 5 liter tank. I took the 3liter tank. Of how much CO2 you need to pump into the tank will depen

I was surprise with the fantastic result from using CO2 injection on the flowering of Marulioides in the passed 3 months and I started googling for the relation of CO2 and marulioides. I can't find any obviously other than those of my own posting but interestingly I stumble upon the relation of Peat swamp and Carbon Dioxide!  And to my surprise, peat swamp is the largest deposit of carbon on earth. They are the fixed deposit for Carbon Dioxide. When carbon is exposed to oxygen they becomes Carbon Dioxide (C + O2 = CO2). And when Carbon Dioxide is exposed to water some of them becomes Carbonic Acid (CO2 + H2O = H2CO3).  The habitat of peat swamp Marulioides is acidic and rich carbon in the soil. And it also happened that peat swamp Marulioides are plentiful with flowers as compared to open water marulioides. I think I've just stumble on the key to flowering Maruliodes. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/peat-lands-and-greenhouse-gasses/ We now know

Comparison 3rd day after CO2 injection After my success with the first fish with CO2, I've decided to buy a pressurized system. With the proper system I can choose to inject as many tank as I wish. Besides a pressurized system is much more effective in dosing CO2.  I started with the Black tank fish as it is just next to the 9bars CO2 tank that was first experiment with. Its easier to control both of them being neighbors. The pressurized system is not easy controlling the bubble count and I was kinda uneasy having to pump pressurized CO2 with this, I need to be careful as they comes in very fine bubbles that makes dissolving mighty effective. And too much of CO2 in still water couple with thicken surface can lead to disaster - CO2 poisoning.  Experiment with such precious fish makes me nervous. Anyhow I set the bubble count to around 5 seconds per bubbles, its hard work tweaking this, I spend 2 days doing so. I kept a close watched on both the fish for CO2 poisonin

This pc is the most interesting progress that I've ever achieved, it started with actinic tanning and later on switched to CO2 treatment in low oxygen environment. The result is amazing. PH 5 TDS 120

Black tank update, flowers dropped when it lost in a battle and got himself trashed up badly. Luckily after nearly 2 months of recovery it got back most of its flowers.

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