View Full Version : "BLUE" Emperor snakehead (Channa marulioides)
King-eL
05-29-2009, 2:33 PM
Anybody got a "BLUE" channa marulioides as I'm looking for another one. I used to have two but one died of a freak accident. If anybody have one and is willing to sell it let me know. Please post pics of your BLUE emperor as well.
It used to be in my 180g but it became uninteractive since it partner died. Later move it back to my monster comm tank and become very active and interactive once again.
Here it is now at 22". Grew it from 2.5" Last June 2008. Not much flower on this one, but I noticed 1-3 start to appear every month.
http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn185/King-eL/Fish/Snakeheads/P5290062.jpg
http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn185/King-eL/Fish/Snakeheads/P5290063.jpg
http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn185/King-eL/Fish/Snakeheads/P5290055.jpg
http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn185/King-eL/Fish/Snakeheads/P5290057.jpg
tunblue
05-29-2009, 2:51 PM
Ya...really sorry for your lost..
good luck on the search.
pls let us know, if u have found it, coz i want it too...hehe
he still looks good anyway, you have keeping him well ..i really like the coloration, its totally different from our specs here..which are more yellowish...actually, i never see your kind of marulioide before...its one of a kind.....:headbang2
btw...u still keep that eel ??? :shocked:
King-eL
05-29-2009, 3:14 PM
Ya...really sorry for your lost..
good luck on the search.
pls let us know, if u have found it, coz i want it too...hehe
he still looks good anyway, you have keeping him well ..i really like the coloration, its totally different from our specs here..which are more yellowish...actually, i never see your kind of marulioide before...its one of a kind.....:headbang2
btw...u still keep that eel ??? :shocked:
Yep I still have the eel in a different tank and getting 3 more.
Been looking for a regular marulioides too.
gigas12
05-29-2009, 3:15 PM
Hi,sorry for your loss,nice channas.
King-eL
05-29-2009, 3:16 PM
Hi,sorry for your loss,nice channas.
Thanks!
That tank is ridiculous! Watch your fingers bro. Beautiful fish.
King-eL
05-30-2009, 6:32 AM
That tank is ridiculous! Watch your fingers bro. Beautiful fish.
Don't worry they don't bite unless I got food between my fingers.
SawtoothGrin
06-01-2009, 4:33 AM
Ya...really sorry for your lost..
good luck on the search.
pls let us know, if u have found it, coz i want it too...hehe
he still looks good anyway, you have keeping him well ..i really like the coloration, its totally different from our specs here..which are more yellowish...actually, i never see your kind of marulioide before...its one of a kind.....:headbang2
btw...u still keep that eel ??? :shocked:
TunBlue...if you want to see the blue/black maruloides specimen...you can drive down along Subang Perdana/Kampung Subang (the back road tht connects Kota Damansara to Subang Old Airport) Theres a huge LFS there. They have 3 around 28-30 inch of those Maruloides. Go check it out.
tunblue
06-01-2009, 5:22 AM
SawtoothGrin :D
thks...and yupp i have seen them..
the shop its actually very very near to my place.
Last time, i only saw one ...about 1 foot size and he was in a big aquarium together with all those monster knifefish and also with one damn big channa lucius...
and i now, like u said the collection has increased to 3 in the big blue fibre tank....:popcorn:
Sadly to say,I even tried asking the owner to sell to me the 1 foot Emperor, but he refused.:cry:
According to him, its a wild caught and he has kept it for quite sometime...
But personally i think the colouration of those Emperors are not as nice and bluish as King El's channa. More towards black i would say..
and also..i noticed that their condition also didn't look that good..fins are a torn and a lot of scratches here and there...
anyway they still look magnificent :headbang2
will try n load some photos of the small one that i secretly took last time...:grinno:
and will try n snap some pics of those 2 monsters tmrw... secretly...shhhh...:naughty:
cheers..
tunblue
06-01-2009, 7:29 AM
pic 1...
tunblue
06-01-2009, 7:31 AM
pic 2...
he does look a bit stressed in there..
i even offered to bring his home...but was declined...not for sale......
:owned:
hmmm..Now im looking at it,after a while, it does possessed some quality like King-El's blue channa.... esp on the flower pattern.
what do you guys think...???
maybe will try and persuade the owner again tmrw...hehehe :frog:
jarecki
06-01-2009, 7:34 AM
good lock on the search
Oleoleole
06-01-2009, 10:47 AM
If u can find another malaysian marulioides (NOT Thai spec) put in this tank,
maybe u got back your blue spec.
tunblue
06-01-2009, 11:26 AM
If u can find another malaysian marulioides (NOT Thai spec) put in this tank,
maybe u got back your blue spec.
Oleoleole,
sorry, didnt really get your point....care to explain more ^
anyway what specs u think the emperor in the pics???
hermandrum
06-01-2009, 11:46 AM
pic 2...
he does look a bit stressed in there..
i even offered to bring his home...but was declined...not for sale......
:owned:
hmmm..Now im looking at it,after a while, it does possessed some quality like King-El's blue channa.... esp on the flower pattern.
what do you guys think...???
maybe will try and persuade the owner again tmrw...hehehe :frog:
absorbly this is marulioides... the flower is good..
hermandrum
06-01-2009, 11:48 AM
pic 1...
may i c the fish body's another side?
swissarmy26
06-01-2009, 10:01 PM
Where did u get all of those Channas?!?!?! I love them and have had the privilege of catching the marulius in Ft. Lauderdale and the marulioides and micropeltes in Temengor Lake in Perak State, Malaysia. Please tell me where to get them
King-eL
06-02-2009, 4:20 AM
Here are some pics when it was only a juvenile.
http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn185/King-eL/Fish/Snakeheads/IMG_5133.jpg
http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn185/King-eL/Fish/Snakeheads/IMG_5135.jpg
This is the one that died.
http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn185/King-eL/Fish/Snakeheads/P1040009.jpg
http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn185/King-eL/Fish/Snakeheads/P1040045.jpg
I posted these pics before.
hermandrum
06-02-2009, 10:02 AM
Where did u get all of those Channas?!?!?! I love them and have had the privilege of catching the marulius in Ft. Lauderdale and the marulioides and micropeltes in Temengor Lake in Perak State, Malaysia. Please tell me where to get them
imigrate to m'sia.. haha.. i will show u more mate
tunblue
06-02-2009, 10:41 AM
sorry to bring back the issue...
but why always the fish that was more beautiful always died...something to wonder....
just had my 6 flowers marulius being killed by the 5 flowers....sigh...
Oleoleole
06-02-2009, 10:44 AM
Oleoleole,
sorry, didnt really get your point....care to explain more ^
anyway what specs u think the emperor in the pics???
Maybe I wrong. But one point that I think is this 'Blue variant' still not shown its true color or 'coloration'.
Last year before I saw your 'Blue variant' pic I found 5 malaysian marulioides in LFS.
Tank of LFS have many fish like your tank sush as giant CK, giant maluius & catfish.
And all of malulioides is black based look like this. LFS sold to me and my friend with special price because no one interested them. After that we share these fish to kept
in other tank, all of them change color to normal malaysian marulioides. All of this is the result of 'Coloration'.
When I saw King-El's Blue variant with a lot of tankmate like that LFS, the first thing that I think is this fish will change color when move to new tank or keep it alone.
Sorry if I'm wrong.
King-eL
06-02-2009, 11:13 AM
sorry to bring back the issue...
but why always the fish that was more beautiful always died...something to wonder....
just had my 6 flowers marulius being killed by the 5 flowers....sigh...
Yep always happened to me to. My platinum polypterus endlicheri endlicheri died too last years from choking on a clown loach.:(
It's always the rare nice looking fish that dies. However I'm not giving up on my last Blue emperor and any sigh of hazard or danger will be git rid of.
King-eL
06-02-2009, 11:18 AM
Maybe I wrong. But one point that I think is this 'Blue variant' still not shown its true color or 'coloration'.
Last year before I saw your 'Blue variant' pic I found 5 malaysian marulioides in LFS.
Tank of LFS have many fish like your tank sush as giant CK, giant maluius & catfish.
And all of malulioides is black based look like this. LFS sold to me and my friend with special price because no one interested them. After that we share these fish to kept
in other tank, all of them change color to normal malaysian marulioides. All of this is the result of 'Coloration'.
When I saw King-El's Blue variant with a lot of tankmate like that LFS, the first thing that I think is this fish will change color when move to new tank or keep it alone.
Sorry if I'm wrong.
My emperor snakehead never change color to the regular color of emperor snakehead. They used to be in my 180g tank just two of them as I was hoping they are a pair and planning on breeding them, till the electric eel jump in the tank and cause some havoc. I used to have a regular emperor snakehead too that I have kept in a red sand with plenty of tank mates and it turn yellow just like any other regular emperor. Too bad it died due to skin fungus.
tunblue
06-02-2009, 12:57 PM
Maybe I wrong. But one point that I think is this 'Blue variant' still not shown its true color or 'coloration'.
Last year before I saw your 'Blue variant' pic I found 5 malaysian marulioides in LFS.
Tank of LFS have many fish like your tank sush as giant CK, giant maluius & catfish.
And all of malulioides is black based look like this. LFS sold to me and my friend with special price because no one interested them. After that we share these fish to kept
in other tank, all of them change color to normal malaysian marulioides. All of this is the result of 'Coloration'.
When I saw King-El's Blue variant with a lot of tankmate like that LFS, the first thing that I think is this fish will change color when move to new tank or keep it alone.
Sorry if I'm wrong.
Im quite agree with you on this, but to me the biggest contribution to the fish looks will be their genetic factor.
maybe king-el's emperor has stronger black n blue base colour in their genetics.This explain why his Malaysian Emperor didn't change the colour even being in the same tank...
Anyway rite now im conducting some small experiment with my baby marulius...
just placed one baby living alone from the rest....and with same food and same environment ,i want to verify ,will tank mates factor contributes to their looks and colouration...??
So far, after about a week, no changes, except that the one that living alone, look a bit stress and scared , always been hiding and not really interactive compared to the rest.
but still too early to tell...:popcorn:.will let u guys know soon and will make a new thread on this too....
King-eL
06-02-2009, 1:23 PM
Im quite agree with you on this, but to me the biggest contribution to the fish looks will be their genetic factor.
maybe king-el's emperor has stronger black n blue base colour in their genetics.This explain why his Malaysian Emperor didn't change the colour even being in the same tank...
Anyway rite now im conducting some small experiment with my baby marulius...
just placed one baby living alone from the rest....and with same food and same environment ,i want to verify ,will tank mates factor contributes to their looks and colouration...??
So far, after about a week, no changes, except that the one that living alone, look a bit stress and scared , always been hiding and not really interactive compared to the rest.
but still too early to tell...:popcorn:.will let u guys know soon and will make a new thread on this too....
I'll separate this emperor by itself and see if the color does change to regular emperor.
proaquatics
06-02-2009, 1:40 PM
great shots!!
ernest
06-04-2009, 10:29 PM
NIce blue emperor snakehead, u hv a fantastic collection of other monsterfishes too good luck in your search for the blue emperor snakehead.!