FISHIOLOGY

This video demonstrate how the Giant Borneo gouramy changes its pattern according to its mood. It can formed the common Giant Gouramy concave pattern and switched to the Giant borneo gouramy tappered pattern at a snapped of a finger. I've never encountered a fish that can change its pattern to disguise as another species. Why do they display this behavior? Concave Bar Tappered Bar Changing bar pattern

Osphronemus Septemfasciatus can also show the bar pattern of Osphronemus Goramy, I only notice this phenomena when the fish is around 14". Are these pattern emerged only when they are sub adult? When I was searching for the O.Sep I came across a variant of Osphronemus Goramy Kapuas hulu, they show correlative pattern of the O.Sep. The hulu kapuas var O.Goramy is rather confusing as they are so similar to the O.Sep except for the concave bar. After encountering my O.Sep forming the same bar pattern, I can't help but wonder if the O.Goramy var hulu kapuas that I came across earlier are they the same fish? I do not have a clear photo but the only way to identify them apart now is the cheek line pattern. It will be tricky to ID the O.Sep from the O.Goramy hulu kapuas. O.Sep forming the concave bar, they show this bar pattern according to their mood and will revert back to their original tappered bar. A variant of O.Goramy from hulu kapuas

Puteri 2 Puteri 4 The tail biting has stopped in community tank This couple of months I was really busy and had over stocked myself with so many fishes that unfortunately I had terribly neglected them. Puteri 4 developed tail biting and I had to put her into the community tank to stopped the tail biting. Well it worked but with a terrible price. My fish room licence was revoked I've to shrink down my tank so I dumped in Puteri 2 into the community tank as well. In this experiment you can see how when Marulioides is kept in the wrong environment they lose their flowers. With over a year of work with this 2 fishes that I've saved for myself but due to work and the lack of tank I was force to kept them in the community tank and the price is they both lose all their flowers, well almost all. Puteri 2 maintained the orangy tint from the kelakai experiment but puteri 4 lost the orangy tint. I'll try to hang on to this 2 fish as I know genetically the...

Giant Borneo Gourami formation of the cheek line, its interesting to see and record the formation of the cheek line and hopefully I can manage to do so for the entire headshape changes.

 Tail biting when in single tank 2 weeks later in comm tank tail biting stopped.  He was in a comm tank for 2 weeks plus and tail biting finally stopped. I suspect it stopped earlier but fins were tattered and torn from fighting against each others. But with a heavy price to pay, flowers had dropped tremendously as I now needed to feed them daily to avoid fightings. Will try to hold on to them a little longer as I will now try to get the flowers in a comm tank. This 2 has the most flowers amongst all and we'll see how bad they do in these environment.

The chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianus) was on my wish list for sometime, a true relic dinosaur of the passed. The oldest recorded specimen from China is tot to be nearly 200 years old and around 1.5 meters in length. The wild Giant Chinese Salamander will soon join the extinct rank but luckily farmed giant salamander is available by the millions. The local name is wawayu meaning wawa fish, they are able to emit a cry like that of a human baby hence derived the name wawa fish. They are of the cold water amphibian and usually will not survive in the tropic according to many research that I've done. Eating ceased at 28ºc. But they said the same with russian sturgeon as well and I grew mine from 7" to a healthy eating swimming specimen of 18". I've finally acquired a Chinese Giant Salamander around 11" in length, it is a commercial bred for food specimen. It looked quite thin probably due to shipment stress. I'm keeping her in...