FISHIOLOGY

These are my Terengganus update they are about 5 inches now. The flower formation is still strong and some flowers has started growing pass the gold line. There are a lot of terengganus out there and to choose a Terengganu it is most important that you take note of the entire batch of fish. If they are above 4" and you do not notice any flowers developing then they are probably open water fish. Swamp Terengganus starts flowers formation at very young age, they begin as early as 3". Never fall into the band trap. Band does not dictate flowers, the connecting flowers or snakeskin form at the top part of the fish and not on the band below it.  This is a 5 band Terengganu, notice how the snakeskin is form, its on the top part! Choose a fish that you can already spot flowers. Never choose a fish that has 9 or 10 bands but does not show any flowers. You will be disappointed in the future. Terengganus are famous for its excessive flowers, so choose flowers inst...

The suspect snakeskin piece update, as mentioned Ive only suspect this is the snakeskin formation and I do not have any actual recorded data. We will just follow the progress of this fish and see where it goes in the formation. Its been a month that the fish was in T5 LO and here is the update, some of the flowers has formed. Its a strong flower fish. Bottom pic is from last month 12 Dec as compared to the new pic above.

I've also added T5 low output This is the daddy of this batch of 5 fishes Bluish photos are first day pics are all jumble up, this was taken last nite and I can see flowers blooming. I think the actinic light is working. Now I just need to figure out the timing and frequency. 3rd day update of Actinic light tanning 

A new project that I'm doing is tanning in a specific spectrum of light and that will be in the blue spectrum. Lets understand a little bit about light energy, they are from long wave length (Red) to the shortest (Blue). The long wave length has the least energy and the energy continue to increase as the wave length shorten. When it reaches the far end of the spectrum we will be in the ultraviolet range that can cause sunburn to our skin.  From my earlier experiment tanning in high kelvin light 10,000 - 12,000 produces result while using lower kelvin light does not get us anywhere. And we know now that the reason for this is because on the red and green spectrum they contain less energy, while high kelvin light contain more on the blue spectrum which produces more energy. I've bought an Actinic High output T5 meant for marine coral bulb and modified it to my high output tanning lamp. I will concentrate the tanning just on the blue spectrum that will peak in the range f...