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What happen when you keep Marulioides wrongly

Puteri 2

Puteri 4
The tail biting has stopped in community tank


This couple of months I was really busy and had over stocked myself with so many fishes that unfortunately I had terribly neglected them. Puteri 4 developed tail biting and I had to put her into the community tank to stopped the tail biting. Well it worked but with a terrible price. My fish room licence was revoked I've to shrink down my tank so I dumped in Puteri 2 into the community tank as well.

In this experiment you can see how when Marulioides is kept in the wrong environment they lose their flowers. With over a year of work with this 2 fishes that I've saved for myself but due to work and the lack of tank I was force to kept them in the community tank and the price is they both lose all their flowers, well almost all.

Puteri 2 maintained the orangy tint from the kelakai experiment but puteri 4 lost the orangy tint.

I'll try to hang on to this 2 fish as I know genetically they are really potential fish but I just had to screw them up. We will see when they grow larger will the flowers they possessed when younger will return or will it be lost forever. I was thinking if somehow I manage to get extra tank I will reset the correct environment and we'll see if flowers that once exist will return.

The community tank is a 6' x 2.5' x 2.5', I've change to a slower pump (3000lph) but still fast for marulioides esp with a sump tank. PH6.

Comments

  1. Kongthum W.March 24, 2020 at 1:58 PM

    In this case 'wrong environment' = community tank, right?
    Anything else?

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    1. MoorishMarch 25, 2020 at 11:27 PM

      community tank, higher PH, fast moving water , high feeding plus being bullied

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