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The Grandmaster of Malaysia Marulioides

Yesterday I was invited to dinner by a group of Marulioides enthusiast, and the guest of honour is a person that are most respected in the marulioides field. The man is non other than The Grandmaster of Toman Bunga Mr. Siew.

The event rendezvous was at Mr. Siew's place and I had the opportunity to exchange plenty of data with this great guy. Friendly and energetic, he was a great chatter. His knowledge of the Marulioides species is so vast and deep. What struck me most was his dedication, the passion he possessed for the marulioides species. When one is set on and gave absolute 100% dedications to your mission, you will achieve great things.

Mr. Siew first explained to me how he had painstakingly collected Marulioides from Terengganu. Bringing the fish back alive is no easy task. He had been doing this in the 90s. At one point he even rented a house in Terengganu for this purpose. The fish was plentiful at that time.

I believe he is the first person that had successfully breed the Terengganu var in the 90s. And if I'm not mistaken my cb Terengganu that I acquired back in 2000 was from him. He stopped breeding Marulioides and had spend his time studying the Channa Lucius.

Before playing Terengganu his playground was at Sg. Dusun and having crossed checked with him he too find that sg. Dusun's Marulioides possessed a bright beautiful orangy tint with nice polka dot finnage.

Infact he had once crossed breed the sg. Dusun with the Terengganu var and the outcome was a truly fantastic fish.

Mr. Siew wishes to promote the Terengganu var to the world and he will start collecting broaders again for his up-coming breeding project. He believes once a var is successfully captive bred then it should be promoted without jeopardizing its natural habitat. He plans to breed wild caught Terengganu variant preserving the species for future generations and also to reintroduce them back into Terengganu waters.

He told me that last month he went back to Terengganu for broader collections and what saddened him was the lack of fish that was found there. Grave harvesting from fisherman has led to the devastation of this var. If this var is not captive breed in the near future we may never see this variant ever again.

He has many plans he wishes to fulfill example to set up a proper forum committee to systematically introduced the Terengganu to the world. To educate Malaysian to their best not to destroy the natural habitat and over harvesting of the Terengganu. To advise the authorities in hoping some kind of preservation act can be enforced before the var goes extinct. I'm inspired by the dedication of this great man and I do wish him all the success for the sake of this critical variant.

p/s I did asked him about the legendary fire tail variant, he had not seen one but he had also heard of this. The fire tail variant is supposedly a marulioides with red spots and red line running at the edge of the last 3 finnage.


Marulioides Terengganu crossed with Sg. Dusun. The polka dot pattern on the finnage is truly out of this world.
The man's prized collection, a very rare water Terrapin. The golden marking is so beautiful, its about 200kgs in weight and 5 feet in lenght.
One of his recent catch from Terengganu




I will never have the courage to step into this pond with this UFO

This is the pond that he had specially designed to breed the Terengganu Marulioides.

Comments

  1. Hi sir..sya bela ganu var dari kecil...sya dh cuba sedaya upaya bunga masih tak memuaskan...skrng ikan dh besar lebih 1 kaki...bunga masih boleh keluar?

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    1. ada yg pcaya toman bunga masih boleh berbunga selepas 24", yg ni sy xblh mengesahkan

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  3. Bagaimana saya mendapatkan ikan itu
    Saya ingin membelinya

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    1. ikan yg mana? ganu boleh tanya Tan Jim https://www.facebook.com/tan.jims.7

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  4. Adakah yang sudah berhasil breeding channa jenis ini? Mouth breeder atau bagaimana ya jenis ini?

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