FISHIOLOGY

This is the update of the red Kelakai and DOC treatment, the color is very orangy for a Terengganu of this size. This is also the 2nd Marulioides that I've tried with Red Kelakai treatment and yes they do bring out the color of the fish. The previous Kalimantan also display obvious orange patches on its side just as this piece.  I think it can be safely concluded that Red Kelakai will bring out the color of the Marulioides from this 2 experiment. Red Kelakai and DOC Previous Kalimantan orangy patch with Red Kelakai treatment

Its been awhile since I find time to groom my maru, I was busy at work and neglected them, I've sold 2 of the 4 maru I've kept so other hobbyist can properly take care of them. But recently there is a new product in the market that kick start my curiosity again. I found a product that uses Red Kelakai for light Tannins and as we know from earlier research that red kelakai (Red Fern - Stenochlaena palustris) is packed with anthocyanin the active ingredients that color up fishes and just like astaxanthin the red pigment enhancer they somehow at the sametime increases flower development. Second product that I found is the Dissolve Organic Carbon, organic carbon if you've been following my progress is the soul of the peat swamp. The dark water, the low PH are the echoes of the carbon. And from that vibration comes flowers. I reset a tank and added in Light Tannins with anthocyanin and also Dissolved Organic Carbon, I restart the CO2 injections and light it up with my HO T5

Kelakai re-experiment with : 14" kalimantan PH6 5" Terengganu PH5 The focus of this experiment is to gather data if kelakai will help to color up the fish and how far it can work. My previous experiment with the smaller Kalimantan had orangy tint on the scale below the lateral line. Both this fish as you can see do not have any orangy tint, we shall see if the previous experiment was the effect of the Kelakai or its just the original trait of the Kalimantan. We will also add in the Terengganu, given that it is still a bit too young to color up but what the heck since I've too many Terengganus to experiment with. Day 1 Day 1

Some videos I've found of my previous Kalimantan during the low PH kelakai treatment. Initially I suspect if a variant of the Kalimantan will grow up to be the double line sp. Borneo. Why did I believe in such a thing? Because to date, we've not seen a baby sp. borneo double line. The experiment was to keep a baby kalimantan in very low PH with red kelakai (Stenochlaena palustris) tannin. I stumbled on the double line kalimantan for sale and this was the reason I kept the Kalimantan. Ok back to the experiment, The fish was kept at PH3.5-4.0 for nearly 2 months with dried red Kelakai tannin. The Kalimantan was very stressed at PH below 4.5. The fish was most time dark and the eyes was in black color mode. The flowers was disappearing fast the band was wide. The interesting thing with this experiment is the fish shows reddish tint and when flaring the fish is bright orange as you can see from the videos that I've found. When I stopped the experiment to saved the flowers

The orangy scales are more pronounced and the base color is with a reddish tinge.

When I've first heard of the kelakai rumours, I thought it was strange and I did some research. Turns out I stumbled upon some rather interesting facts about this simple plant. It was food for the local people and traditionally it has medication or more like tonic properties. Kelakai is Stenochlaena palustris. Many studies had been done and from these data there are something I found that it could all be possibly to the kelakai theory. The test of Red kelakai shows 20x more content of anthocyanins as to the green kelakai. Anthocyanins is a natural colorant responsible for the red, purple and orange in plants. At low PH it will stabilized at the red hue. Of how do we administer this, well I've no idea. I tried gut load to ghost shrimp and they seem to have no interest of the fronds. For the time being I've soak the dried Red Kelakai to the water. From 2 of the experiment I did at PH4 the fish glows with a maroon hue. The fish then was around 7" and too small to

According to some hearsay stories or believes, the numbers of red fishes from kalimantan derived from the plants Stenochlaena Palustris (kelakai). During the dry season the kelakai would flourish and when monsoon season comes the area would be flooded. The waters of kalimantan area will be exposed to the tannins of the Stenochlaena plants that are rich in red flavonoids and other properties. Of couse these plants also lived in most parts of asia and we don't get the red fishes as how kalimantan fishes. Perhaps the genetic of kalimantan fishes will be able to react to the plants tannin? This we will never know. But anyhow I'm attracted to the ideas of how certain plants alters the color base of many fishes in the kalimantan continent and I've put them to test. 3 weeks after consistently soaking the red Stenochlaena, the fish do show some hue of red. How long do I need to continue for this treatment? I dont know. Perhaps until I ran out of the red Stenochlaena which i