FISHIOLOGY

Today we will discussed about how to choose a nice Kalimantan seeing so many had pm to asked me this question Choose the fish with the most flowers if you're into flowers, I'm the type who prefers beautiful band so band is important to me. I will choose the piece that have the most band and nice band pattern. The band should extend all the way to the belly unlike your usual marulioides which have band only halfway. The unique features of the kalimantan is that they have bands that extend all the way south. The 3 back fin should have batik pattern and preferably when flare they should over lap each other like a plakat fighting fish. Happy shopping

When first brought home at 3" July 17 10" Aug 18  Kalimantan Flaring Kalimantan is perhaps the most beautiful Channa Marulioides that I've kept. The part I love most about kali is thier band, yes they have lots of them almost looking like Channa Asiatica. The band extend to the belly. And they possessed strong colors when kept in the right PH. They are bold and always ready to show their best. When you approach the tank they will flare and show their colors.  The only shortfall of the Kalimantan is in the flower department, "usually" they dun have them much, but you'll have plenty of bands to ogle. The Batik pattern on all 3 fins are amazing, unfortunately not all the batik remains when kept from young. Plenty of work to groom retaining the batik to ensure they dont fade away. Its ashame I've to sell my Kalimantan, but all good things must come to an end so that new fish can take its place. Thank you for following the progress of

Remarkable results What I was hoping for

Channa Melanoptera is a super rare snakeheads from Indonesia. First describe by bleeker in 1855. He found the fish in Kapuas river. Bleeker gave the description of a black snakehead with no ocel at the tail.  They look somewhat like C. Marulioides. A lot of confusion and misinformations about the description of this fish from the internet. Most of them posted a blackout C. Marulioides and took it as C. Melanoptera. Again no thanks to fish traders quick to make a fast buck. Channa Melanoptera practically has no flowers or white scales. If the white scale do exist it will be very small looking inbetween C. Marulia and C. marulioides white spotting. The batik pattern on the finnage glows in blue they've a florescent feel to it. They do not have the ocel at the caudal fin . Bands are not presents below lateral line . The heads are very short and slim. They have top black and bottom white. Ive searched this species for a very long time until I stumble on a kalimantan shipment r

How many types of sp Borneo exist? they are caught in so many locations and many types are shown. Here I will try to round them up so we can analyse. ABCE possibly the same variant, CD possibly same. E  Maybe a tank raise fish or young fish with the bars not or haven't fully sticking together yet.  The characteristic of sp Borneo is black patch near the tail when mature, stout body, short and slim head, the band will stretched all the way to the bottom like full bar. Most of the time the fins are black. The main problem why ABCE is undetermine is simply because nobody know how does the ABCE baby fish look like lol.  I tell you... Its not a joke, even Indonesian cannot answer you this.   The below is type D found in central Kalimantan.  Only D is identified and recorded from baby to adult. So to those chasing for sp borneo baby pandai2 lah. Dun buy anything ppl say... Use your eyes and your knowledge given.  For type ABE I'm still working on it. Until baby to a

After 3 months with me the fish is fully stable. A beautiful fish indeed. This pc is kept at 5.5PH, 100ppm TDS, 30C, 1000liter tank. Food is market prawn and frozen seluang. Water changed are done every 3 weeks or so at 20-30%.

When I was working at Sarawak back in 1997 - 2000 near Bakun dam project, Ive heard from my Indonesia fren tat there exist a type of marulioides that is red in color. Initially I tot they were just tall tale until a few other spoke of the same fish. Unfortunately no pic was provided and only a vague description of the fish was given. After that I was back in KL,off and on I would try to find out more about the fish but it seem nobody from the peninsula had even heard of such a fish let alone seen one. And it happened someone posted a similar fish at Monsterfishkeeper forum back in the mid 2000 that the Japanese had acquired such a fish. That was the first time I had seen the sp Borneo. But it was out of touch. Fast forward to present day, again the sp Borneo bug had bitten me and this time I was determined to get one. Now with the internet technology I joined any available facebook fishing group in Indonesia and whenever an sp borneo was caught I would note down the location