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…
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…
-- 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).
