Update: Drakaris, Kamfa-RTH

[islandguy11]

Hope everyone and their fishes are well; haven’t posted in a while due to very busy with work etc.

But Drakaris is doing just fine: bigger, thicker, pearlier and angrier than ever (but ‘friendly’ and full of character if you stay outside the tank and don’t piss him off too much).

*Best watched in HD*

Another update is that the question of his lineage is (mostly) answered now. As some may remember when I first brought Drakaris home back in Sept. last year, I thought he was a Red Texas. However I was soon corrected by some much more knowledgeable than I that he is a Kamfa, which I’ve been calling him since.

Well it turns out we’re both kinda right – I finally persuaded the old fish shop owner I got him from to get on the horn with his (also old) breeder buddy outside of Bangkok to find out more about Drakaris. To make a long story short, we learned that it was his son who’s actually into breeding hybrids, and the answer we eventually got with some polite prying is that Drakaris is a “Kamfa + Red Texas hybrid (RTH) cross”.

Unsurprisingly he wouldn’t divulge more details about his parents or their specific lineage, but “Kamfa-RTH” is good enough for me -- you could call him “Strawberry Shortcake X Marshmallow-Cherry Pie” and I’d still dig him…

 

[J. H.]

So he's not a KK9.9?

 

[islandguy11]

So he's not a KK9.9?

Thanks for watching J.H. As we know KK 9.9 is just a marketing name used initially by one breeder; now lot's of people are (over) using it to generically describe Kamfas that more perfectly meet the standards.

But no, Drakaris isn't a KK 9.9 (for which I'm actually glad; I prefer him how he is -- a KK 9.9 would have a bigger kok, more sunken eyes and a shorter, more perfectly wrapped fins/tail (but also likely wouldn't have as beautiful pearling as Drakaris has).

 

[J. H.]

Thanks for watching J.H. As we know KK 9.9 is just a marketing name used initially by one breeder; now lot's of people are (over) using it to generically describe Kamfas that more perfectly meet the standards.

But no, Drakaris isn't a KK 9.9 (for which I'm actually glad; I prefer him how he is -- a KK 9.9 would have a bigger kok, more sunken eyes and a shorter, more perfectly wrapped fins/tail (but also likely wouldn't have as beautiful pearling as Drakaris has).

I think Drakaris is the most beautiful FH I've ever seen; I liked KK9.9's because I thought he was one LOL, I like the little kok and lack of fat, too.

 

[islandguy11]

I think Drakaris is the most beautiful FH I've ever seen; I liked KK9.9's because I thought he was one LOL, I like the little kok and lack of fat, too.

That's very cool of you to say J.H. -- I'd tell Drakaris but he might get a big head, lol.

 

[Dainbramage]

He's definitely easy to look at!

 

[Bigg081]

WOW! Gorgeous is an understatement! And people say that saltwater fish are the colorful ones!
Stunning FH.

 

[J. H.]

Why does he keep swimming through the box filters upside down? Is he flashing?

 

[RD.]

Great looking Kamfa.

 

[islandguy11]

Why does he keep swimming through the box filters upside down? Is he flashing?

After I moved the jars he pulled about 12 of those upside down moves -- so yeah I was wondering if he was flashing too -- but then he stopped doing it (only once in a while now), and has not been flashing on anything else, so I guess he was just having fun