According to some hearsay stories or believes, the numbers of red fishes from kalimantan derived from the plants Stenochlaena Palustris (kelakai). During the dry season the kelakai would flourish and when monsoon season comes the area would be flooded.
The waters of kalimantan area will be exposed to the tannins of the Stenochlaena plants that are rich in red flavonoids and other properties. Of couse these plants also lived in most parts of asia and we don't get the red fishes as how kalimantan fishes.
Perhaps the genetic of kalimantan fishes will be able to react to the plants tannin? This we will never know.
But anyhow I'm attracted to the ideas of how certain plants alters the color base of many fishes in the kalimantan continent and I've put them to test.
3 weeks after consistently soaking the red Stenochlaena, the fish do show some hue of red. How long do I need to continue for this treatment? I dont know. Perhaps until I ran out of the red Stenochlaena which is proving more difficult to obtain.
Will update and see if this experiment indeed proved the legend true.
The waters of kalimantan area will be exposed to the tannins of the Stenochlaena plants that are rich in red flavonoids and other properties. Of couse these plants also lived in most parts of asia and we don't get the red fishes as how kalimantan fishes.
Perhaps the genetic of kalimantan fishes will be able to react to the plants tannin? This we will never know.
But anyhow I'm attracted to the ideas of how certain plants alters the color base of many fishes in the kalimantan continent and I've put them to test.
3 weeks after consistently soaking the red Stenochlaena, the fish do show some hue of red. How long do I need to continue for this treatment? I dont know. Perhaps until I ran out of the red Stenochlaena which is proving more difficult to obtain.
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Red Stenochlaena
do cut fresh red leaves and leave them to dry or use naturally dead dry leaves?
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