FISHIOLOGY

A recent paper research by Tino Moritz and Ralf Britz - Revision of the extant Polypteridae . In the paper it was concluded by this 2 dude that the P. Lapradei and P.Bichir Bichir is no longer a valid subspecies or a species of its own. They're merged all into just P. Bichir. "Based on analysis of our data we synonymise P. lapradei and P. bichir katangae with P. bichir and only recognize a single species, however, with geographical variation in meristic counts. The cause of the sometimes striking differences in coloration remains unclear." This is a big blow for the fish hobbyist especially for those trophies collectors. And I guess it will be chaotic for new comers as anybody can sell PBL with 7 marking as PBBs. Apart from this it is actually a sad news, what have they done? Science is always about moving forward, but this 2 buggers just took everything backwards and lets breakdown the publish paper and see how they had derived to this mad conclusion. "Mater...

I've got another fish from my wish list and this time its the Anjumara, Hoplias Aimara. Rumored as the most ferocious fish in the world. And who doesn't want a piece of this action? I got the fish early July the size was around 10.5". It was of the Suriname variant, some patterned on the body. The fish readily took market prawn the next day and also frozen fish. The fish was most time parking in the corner 95% parking and 5% swimming. After a week it was quite boring and I spoke to kitty Lai who had his Aimara for a couple of months. He taught me the old trick and that is to comm it. Well comm Aimara? a risky move, but seem he had success with comming his with Giant Gourami. He had failed comm in his first few attempt, The trick is to comm with broad body fish. Initially I was looking for Black Oscar as tank mate to make it all South American but I couldnt find any around. And I chance upon a hybrid Giant Gourami the body also in my wish list, flat back long body alw...

Puteri 2 Puteri 4 Puteri Pertama  Puteri 3 Not much time taking care of these guys as I've been really busy at work, luckily not much of flowers is missing. Only Puteri 4 has increased flowering bcoz I've added CO2 into the tank.