FISHIOLOGY

Channa Marulioides is the chameleon of the fish, they are the champion when comes to color changing abilities. In a split second they can change from greenish brown to yellow and to orange. They can change their eye color from black to bright red. Observe your Channa Marulioides and you can see they greet you with bright yellow colors doing the maru dance, they flashes their bands to the highest contrast. The body colors are intense and their eyes bright vampire red in colors. When they are tone down and just swim about their business you notice the color is dull when they are in mid water, and suddenly sinking to the bottom with bright orange (depending on the var and PH) they keep changing and flashing their bands and patterns. But the black and white flowers will remain so in whichever mood they display. Also take note that maru shows their best colors mostly at midnight. Each Channa Marulioides comes in its own unique pattern of bands and flowers, like a fingerprint, I beli...

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...

2 Weeks later the white in the scale is still latching on, even when the bar is showing 100% black color. I guess its good news tat the scale begins to dis-functioned. Hope this round I will be successful to bring out the flowers at the bar section. 1 month result only this much, Kalimantan proves to be much harder to tan compared to sp borneo but it is also possible because the fish is much older now. I'm still exercising PH shock for the fish to fade the color, playing from PH5-7 in order to penetrate the scale. At this stage the flower is most fragile as it is not fully damage, the fish will continue to try fixing it. I repeat again incase some of you did not read my blog posting earlier. Flowers are like dead pixel, it is damage and unable to change its colors anymore.  Chromatophores  in the scales are no longer functioning. What remains is just a white patch and strong melanin. I'm however unsure if truly the  Chromatophores  are damaged or the mechanism g...