This took me a whole 10 secs to find on google.
KAMFA :
Eyes : Equal with the cheek/gill, sunken, or protrude
Cheek/Gill : Thin not like zhen zhu or malau and bigger than zhen zhu
Lips : Thin and equal between upper and lower lips
Eyes color : Mostly are white but there's also a red eyes kamfa too.
Body Shape : Most of them are much better rather than zhen zhu specially from small.
Marking : Neither zhen zhu, ZZM, or kamfa it doesn't matter what makes the different only taste of the owner could be full one lines, flower, or double marking.
Pearls : Depends on the quality of the fish it self if classic kamfa then no pearls or less than 10% if good quality from type, fullness, color and shinning could make our saliva came out.
Fins and Tail : Today kamfa could have a weak finnage and tail not like the older generation.
Head : Can be water kok, sammy water kok, swan head or kokless
Color : Usually kamfa color is not better than zhen zhu but now days kamfa color could be much better than zhen zhu depends on the quality of the fish it self or the cross.
KAMALAU
Eyes : Mostly are sunken or equal with the cheek/gill but sumtimes there's a kamalau that have a protrude eyes too specially the old one.
Cheek/Gill : Chubby, thick, and big different with zhen zhu.
Lips : Well in tis part a bit hard to say but still their lips a bit thick but not too thick like zhen zhu or else I could say medium.
Eyes color : Mostly are red specially if already being feed by enhancer but sumtimes is not a guarantee that never being feed by enhancer the eyes color are not red but I also find they are eyes are orange when small.
Body Shape : Most of them are not good when they are small almost the same like zhen zhu but when they getting mature then there's a different.
Marking : Now days people like the non marking one but we can't say the one that have full marking is not kamalau since the in the past the 7x Champion is a double marking even is getting better when the fish getting mature.
Pearls : Depends on the quality of the fish it self if good quality from type, fullness, color and shinning could make our saliva came out but as for kamalau the pearls is a must specially now days kamalau.
Fins and Tail : Well I think most of them have a great finnage and tail too but not saying couldn't have a drop tail one.
Head : Can be water kok, sammy water kok, swan head or kokless
Color : Usually kamalau base color is much better than kamfa or zhen zhu and the favorite color for a kamalau is solid red, vibrant












that google strain description up there is not reliable and I think it's whack.
I just wanna help u ID your fish.. He's a ZZmalau.
ZZ underbite, flower line, structure and fins, with Kamalau pearls.
To b good at telling them apart you gotta hav experienc in looking at many many of them.. Just by Reading crap like above and not have experience will not help U
well i haven't had any past experience with any malau trait at all and it is my first ever
thanks for always giving some lil background history on the FH
helped me a lot to precisely understand my FH![]()