FISHIOLOGY

With low output 21W tanning for 3 weeks. The front flowers are slowly coming back.

Fish is not subject to any special treatment, its kept in PH4. 5 comm with 4 Uaru. Water flow is fast with a 6500lph pump which is unsuitable for Marulioides.      Lighting is a LED white 50W floodlight

Tanning progressing slow, the front flower is slowly coming back. The rear white scale is slowly locking into place.

Tanning result: showing progress but needs continuing PH shock to neutralize the color. Kalimantan tolerance to PH are strong, in a short while they will adapt to the new PH environment. I've used low output T5 to grow flowers and lock the flowers with high output T5 for 4 days. During the process of locking flowers I lose young flowers. Those that just begin turning greyish silver. From the pictures below u can see I've managed to lock the front flowers of the maru. From the 2 fish that I've experimented on I can say tanning do works on the growing of the marulioides flower. But more experiment needs to be done to confirm this process. When u compare the below picture u can see the front flowers are locked but in the process I lose the young flowers in the band.  Comparing 2 weeks ago

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

Possibly I manage to crack the black bar flowers, I can see they just started blooming, need more work on this. I repeat what I did 2 months ago when the fish was black color at PH4, I raised the PH to 7 in 2 days and started intensive tanning. The flowers bloom in 1 weeks time. This round I slowly dropped the PH to 4.5 and raised it to PH7 in 2 days time and did the same as previously and again I see very fast progress and this time I manage to start blooming the black band flowers. Its not fully form but as you can see it started eating on the scale edge and the fish can't change colors on those areas, they remain light grey. 13 May Notice the black band all begin blooming

As mentioned previously, Astaxanthin is an important diet supplement for your marulioides. They somehow brings out the flowers, your fish shows superb pattern and colors. Astaxanthin is the king of caratenoid, the most potent of them all. There are 3 ways u can deliver Astaxanthin suppliment to your fishes. 1st gutload to guppies or ghostshrimps then feed within 10 minutes. 2.make yr own pellet and add in the powdered astaxanthin. 3. Inject into the feeder fish (dead) I inject them into seluang b4 feeding my maru.