I was informed that a batch of baby red maru arrived in Malaysia, and immediately went to checked out the fingerlings. Upon inspection the batch has 2 different variant 1 being the normal 999 kalimantan marulioides and another unidentified variant. So without thinking further I bought 1 baby for experiment. As you can see from the picture, the fish bars and fin pattern is unique, Ive never seen this variant and keeping my fingers crossed I hope this will turn out to be what I hope it is. Fish is 3" in size, first day in the tank it was attacked by my botia elongata at first I thought it wouldn't survived but this little fella was tough as hell. No medication was administered.