Recent content by xbackgolden

they forgot something called Fibre glass tank.

The silly A, AA, AAA grading of fish is similar to the way S&P and Moody's appraise coporate bonds in terms of default risk. However, you won't see any farm giving a B rating or a C or Junk status to the fishes because it will affect their sales. AAA rating normally assumes that you are buying...

Don't worry, I will post pictures in due time to show you guys what i mean by old sch crossbacks.

Very true. Right now, Pure blood red and pure xbacks are quite hard to find. From what i know, only Munjul Farm in indonesia still sticks to breeding the pure bloodline reds. As for Xbacks, because they are not so popular, only the old farms in Singapore still have them.

Guess, you gotta check with your indonesian contacts and see if they wanna be truthful. back where i come from, Super red farming is reasonably limited. But someone did mention before that they are 2 similar species but its just that they occur in different parts of the Kapus River

Nope in CITIES, they protect the species as a whole. There is only red and gold and green variety.

Yes... Tong Yan, red splendor or whatever its call is normally sold under gold variety. Same as RTG, Highback, Highback RTG, Blue base crossback, gold base crossback, gold head cross back etc. At the end of the day, under Cites, its considered just nothing more than a Gold Variety

I have witnessed so i know. Problem with most ppl living abroad is that they assume and presume too much. Remember, most of these farms are run and owned by the old generation who have not recieved much education and knowledge. Hence, many of their business practices are old school. For those...

Normally, they don't even check. they just listen to what the farm owner says, if the farm owner says its RTG then its just listed as RTG. Arowana farming is not sophisticated as most people think.

Cities like our local authority only recognises Gold variety and Red variety. Anyway, these guys are not farmers they won't know whats the diff btw highback, rtg etc as they only check for RFID numbers. In the past, Malaysian Golden arowana and Indonesian Red arowana were breeds of fish. Now...

I made this statement on the context that you bought a quality fish. At the end of the day, what you pay is what you get. Coz the discussion was on old blue base goldens. I have no idea how it ended up about 1 person wanting to sue the farms for misrepresentation.

Well... if the cert says xback golden or red and you are getting a fish that has pearlies and 6 lvl crossing. Isn't it an Xback golden? or if you buy a red and the fish turns turns red or dark orange, you are still buying a red arowana. It only becomes a problem when you buy an xback which turns...

Guess Arl you hit the nail right in the head. Because of changing customers wants, the farms have to play god and try to infuse the best aspects of each breed into 1 fish. Hence, the look of the xbacks today, however, you pay the price in terms of color intensity is it is very difficult to get...

Pardon my mistake.. I meant pure strain gold base malaysian golden. As for blue, I won't comment coz i have nvr seen the young. All these fishes were xbreed to meet customers needs and wants.

Hi there, when i make hte references, i was only referring to xbacks. Reason is, xbacks is a species I have looked into most extensively as it is what I am breeding. As for your 2 fishes.. I can safely say that all are crossbreed xbacks judging from the tails and the head. An authentic Malaysian...