FISHIOLOGY

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

Swamp Marulioides var Terengganu Size : 3.5" - 4" in black tank So far amongst the 5 tank result No. 1 Black tank white sand (tanning) Back and both side of tank black stickers bottom white sand. This tank shows the strongest in flowers development. 6 fish in this tank and all of them have bloom. 3 is quite intense and 3 has only started to flower. PH4  No. 2 Intermediate tank (tanning) Back dark maroon curtain both side of tank is clear bottom white sand. Morning sunshine hits the tank, this tank shows the 2nd best in flowers development. 7 fish in this tank, 1 is intense, 2 is good, remaining has just started to flower.   PH6 No. 3 White tank (tanning) Back is white background and both side of tank is clear bottom white sand. Morning sunshine hits the tank. This tank is 3rd in flowers development. 6 fish in this tank, 1 is good, 2 is showing flowers, 3 has not started flowering. PH6 No. 4 dark tank Tank is kept in darkness, light is on on

From these images you can clearly see the formation of flowers. The fish is only 3.5 inches. The shimmer that I've mentioned from previous post can be more clearly understood from these images. Fish was subjected to 2 weeks tanning with breaks in between. Tanning helps in speeding up the formations of flowers. We can also understand tat swamp fishes usually attain stronger flower gene as compared to open water fish.  Quite a number of people had asked me what is the shimmer. The above image was taken 2 weeks ago. Take note of the flowers from the below image and compare the same location and you'll get the idea.  2 weeks later today, the flower had form.  I'm satisfied that I've finally manage to document how the shimmer turned into flower.  So when buying young marulioides always be on the look out for that shimmer. 

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