FISHIOLOGY

I would like to highlight a story of a fish and unlike any other fish. Of the entire world they reside only in the peat swap of Terengganu and possibility around it's vicinity. The fish is known as the Toman Bunga var. Terengannu (梅花斑). The only variant of the species Channa Marulioides that produces a plum flower pattern on its body. And that was how the name Toman Bunga - Plum Flower Snakehead derived. Plum Flowers Take note that unlike common marulioides the terengannu var. white scales produce a plum flower image.The real sticking flower is as per picture is considered as the highest grade of the Toman Bunga. You can see a band of plum flowers strung together. The holy grail of the Toman Bunga. Pic courtesy of Nasir Jumat. Years of misinformation had messed up the perception of the flower pattern and Patel forming scale. No thanks to fish traders for confusing everybody. The common maruliodes white scales are hence considered as flowers. But obviously they shou...

Bought this Kali for experiment, as I noticed the band are unlike the regular 999 kali. Size is 3". I'm trying to see if somehow this can be the double line Channa sp Borneo.

I was informed that a batch of baby red maru arrived in Malaysia, and immediately went to checked out the fingerlings. Upon inspection the batch has 2 different variant 1 being the normal 999 kalimantan marulioides and another unidentified variant. So without thinking further I bought 1 baby for experiment. As you can see from the picture, the fish bars and fin pattern is unique, Ive never seen this variant and keeping my fingers crossed I hope this will turn out to be what I hope it is. Fish is 3" in size, first day in the tank it was attacked by my botia elongata at first I thought it wouldn't survived but this little fella was tough as hell. No medication was administered.