FISHIOLOGY

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 or ev

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

Predator fish is defined as a fish that kills and eats another organism,  common  prey would be fish, crustaceans, insects, worms, and so on.  Apart from hunting,  occasionally they scavage for dead organism as  food sources. Predatory fish are  mostly carnivorous.  They have a big stomach and short intestine designed to process protein as their  main source of energy. Feeding true carnivorous fish with pellets is wrong as you  will notice they poo most of the pellets before they even had the chance to digest  any of the nutrients. It is like feeding pellets to tigers, actually, cats do poorly with pellets too unlike dogs that are omnivorous by design. The typical way we keep predatory fish is feeding them with gold fish and prawns,  any type of prawns. Now the problem with this is that most available feeders  Lampan, Gold fish, Carp, Seluang in fact all the family of fish under the Cyprinind  Species has very high enzyme known as Thiaminase enzyme. For some reasons, carnivorous fish d

This video demonstrate how the Giant Borneo gouramy changes its pattern according to its mood. It can formed the common Giant Gouramy concave pattern and switched to the Giant borneo gouramy tappered pattern at a snapped of a finger. I've never encountered a fish that can change its pattern to disguise as another species. Why do they display this behavior? Concave Bar Tappered Bar Changing bar pattern

Osphronemus Septemfasciatus can also show the bar pattern of Osphronemus Goramy, I only notice this phenomena when the fish is around 14". Are these pattern emerged only when they are sub adult? When I was searching for the O.Sep I came across a variant of Osphronemus Goramy Kapuas hulu, they show correlative pattern of the O.Sep. The hulu kapuas var O.Goramy is rather confusing as they are so similar to the O.Sep except for the concave bar. After encountering my O.Sep forming the same bar pattern, I can't help but wonder if the O.Goramy var hulu kapuas that I came across earlier are they the same fish? I do not have a clear photo but the only way to identify them apart now is the cheek line pattern. It will be tricky to ID the O.Sep from the O.Goramy hulu kapuas. O.Sep forming the concave bar, they show this bar pattern according to their mood and will revert back to their original tappered bar. A variant of O.Goramy from hulu kapuas