FISHIOLOGY

Giant Borneo Gourami formation of the cheek line, its interesting to see and record the formation of the cheek line and hopefully I can manage to do so for the entire headshape changes.

 Tail biting when in single tank 2 weeks later in comm tank tail biting stopped.  He was in a comm tank for 2 weeks plus and tail biting finally stopped. I suspect it stopped earlier but fins were tattered and torn from fighting against each others. But with a heavy price to pay, flowers had dropped tremendously as I now needed to feed them daily to avoid fightings. Will try to hold on to them a little longer as I will now try to get the flowers in a comm tank. This 2 has the most flowers amongst all and we'll see how bad they do in these environment.

The chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianus) was on my wish list for sometime, a true relic dinosaur of the passed. The oldest recorded specimen from China is tot to be nearly 200 years old and around 1.5 meters in length. The wild Giant Chinese Salamander will soon join the extinct rank but luckily farmed giant salamander is available by the millions. The local name is wawayu meaning wawa fish, they are able to emit a cry like that of a human baby hence derived the name wawa fish. They are of the cold water amphibian and usually will not survive in the tropic according to many research that I've done. Eating ceased at 28ºc. But they said the same with russian sturgeon as well and I grew mine from 7" to a healthy eating swimming specimen of 18". I've finally acquired a Chinese Giant Salamander around 11" in length, it is a commercial bred for food specimen. It looked quite thin probably due to shipment stress. I'm keeping her in