FISHIOLOGY

2 Weeks later the white in the scale is still latching on, even when the bar is showing 100% black color. I guess its good news tat the scale begins to dis-functioned. Hope this round I will be successful to bring out the flowers at the bar section. 1 month result only this much, Kalimantan proves to be much harder to tan compared to sp borneo but it is also possible because the fish is much older now. I'm still exercising PH shock for the fish to fade the color, playing from PH5-7 in order to penetrate the scale. At this stage the flower is most fragile as it is not fully damage, the fish will continue to try fixing it. I repeat again incase some of you did not read my blog posting earlier. Flowers are like dead pixel, it is damage and unable to change its colors anymore.  Chromatophores  in the scales are no longer functioning. What remains is just a white patch and strong melanin. I'm however unsure if truly the  Chromatophores  are damaged or the mechanism g...

I would like to introduce you to some of the beautiful Channa Marulioides from Indonesia and at the same time clarify the complexity and the confusion as best I can. what is Marsum, Marbor, kalimantan, borneo, sp borneo, No.1  Marsum - Marulioides Sumatera Blue Marulioides not to be confuse with Channa Melanoptera Channa Marulioides Sumatera variant is very similar to the Malaysian variant. There is also another var found there known as Blue Maru which is greyish blue in color. No.2 Marbor - Marulioides Borneo known in Indonesia or Marulioides Kalimantan or Kali by Malaysian and Singaporean. The double line The 999/eee The yy + double line Now Kalimantan is very complex and has many variant. They comes in the 2 line bands form, the 999/eee form, the YY + double line form. But one of the key factors to tell them apart from sumatera, malaysia and thai variant is the middle exposure.  The key to ID kalimantan is t...

This is my 2nd attempt to break the bars flowers, kalimantan is a stubborn fish. The first attempt failed because I couldnt park the bars at neutral color long enuf to burn the flowers in. Kalimantan adapt to PH very fast no matter high or low. This time I"ll keep doing PH shock to park the bars at neutral colors. I swing the PH from 4 - 7 constantly. Adding plenty of coral chip to elevate the PH and at the same time dumping in vinegar to lower it temporary to the desire PH and then the PH will swing up again in no time. As witness from this 2 attempt I confirm tanning marulioides will be successful when the colors are parked at neutral. This is the same principle as tanning arowana, We call WTT- White Tank Treatment. In order to tanned arowana we need to park the colors of arowana scale at neutral hence keeping the fish in a white tank to flush out all the color pigment. When the pigment are flush only will the tanning light works on the scale. Perhaps I may try to do a ...

Tanning in progress T5 80cm 39w 7hrs, PH5.5. This is about 9 mths back during my low PH experiment. I lost most of the flowers.

Last up date of the sp Borneo no.2, took 8 months to groom her from this to this. Now the job is passed to the new owner.