Low PH with Red Kelakai experiment videos

Some videos I've found of my previous Kalimantan during the low PH kelakai treatment. Initially I suspect if a variant of the Kalimantan will grow up to be the double line sp. Borneo. Why did I believe in such a thing? Because to date, we've not seen a baby sp. borneo double line.

The experiment was to keep a baby kalimantan in very low PH with red kelakai (Stenochlaena palustris) tannin. I stumbled on the double line kalimantan for sale and this was the reason I kept the Kalimantan.

Ok back to the experiment, The fish was kept at PH3.5-4.0 for nearly 2 months with dried red Kelakai tannin. The Kalimantan was very stressed at PH below 4.5. The fish was most time dark and the eyes was in black color mode. The flowers was disappearing fast the band was wide.

The interesting thing with this experiment is the fish shows reddish tint and when flaring the fish is bright orange as you can see from the videos that I've found. When I stopped the experiment to saved the flowers what I've notice are orange scales appeared in 2 rows below the lateral line which are very similar to the sp Borneo.

Perhaps next time I will again get another Kalimantan and redo the test and this time I will go all the way through the whole process so we may see the full result.

Kalimantan before all the treatment done

Kalimantan in Reddish mode

Flaring in Orange

As you can see the scale below the lateral line had turned orange in color from the experiment.

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