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rumblesushi
09-15-2005, 12:00 PM
He's unbelievable, he eats so much, and eats anything.

He eats frozen cockles, bloodworm, lancefish, market prawns, other fish, and he's even started to eat cichlid pellets.

Usually people have to starve their fish to eat pellets, not this one.

This morning I fed him some cut up fresh monkfish fillet. Enough that his belly looked completely full.

Then just now I crushed a few cichlid gold pellets for my small convict and hujeta, and my snakehead is eating it all. Unbelievable.

however, quite a result that all my fish except for the wolf are eating cichlid gold pellets :D


Also I have to feed that snakehead until he is completely full for him to stop trying to kill my other fish, and even then it doesn't last long. He eats till his belly is bulging, rests a bit, then starts darting after the other fish trying to kill them and ripping their fins. Including a goldfish that is bigger than him.

Btw he is about 4.5 inches now, he's grown about an inch since I got him 10 days ago.
flowerfan
09-15-2005, 12:04 PM
what kind of sh you have?
rumblesushi
09-15-2005, 12:11 PM
It's an albino one. I'm pretty sure it's an albino micropeltes, as it looks like the albino micro's listed on another site, it's super aggressive, and it's grown an inch in 10 days.
IoStrisciare
09-15-2005, 1:36 PM
we have the same prob... my baby micropeltes are eating all the shrimp that are for the lucius that are in the same tank as them...
rumblesushi
09-15-2005, 2:42 PM
you have a little red in the same tank as a pike?

How are they getting on?

What's the size difference, and has the SH attacked the pike yet?
reefman
09-15-2005, 4:03 PM
wait till it gets bigger it will start going for your hand when you put it in your tank all the large reds and cobras i've had after 10" they wanted to eat my hand for some reason
joeytoe
09-15-2005, 5:24 PM
wait till it gets bigger it will start going for your hand when you put it in your tank all the large reds and cobras i've had after 10" they wanted to eat my hand for some reason

You might just be really tasty Reefman. :ROFL: :headbang2
dialphantom
09-15-2005, 5:55 PM
an inch in 10 days thats f-ing crazy
rumblesushi
09-15-2005, 6:46 PM
I know it's crazy. When I got him he was about 3.5 inches and skinny as hell. Now he's around 4.5 inches and very beefy.

Maybe so far in his life he's been underfed and I've given him a varied and plentiful diet, that's probably why he's had a growth spurt.
sgland
09-15-2005, 8:53 PM
you have a little red in the same tank as a pike?

he doesn't have 1, he has 10 :eek:
IoStrisciare
09-18-2005, 9:28 AM
you have a little red in the same tank as a pike?

How are they getting on?

What's the size difference, and has the SH attacked the pike yet?

not esox lucius.... channa lucius.... another species of SH... common name is forest snakehead.

have 3 baby reds of an 1+ " with 5 3-4" channa lucius...
IoStrisciare
09-18-2005, 9:29 AM
he doesn't have 1, he has 10 :eek:

i saved 3... the rest became dinner for my dat, N1Wan and something else.... :grinyes:
deD3
09-20-2005, 4:35 AM
snakeheads will make everyone poor :grinyes:
rumblesushi
09-29-2005, 5:38 AM
I really wish I had a digital camera, my little channa just ripped the head off a convict. The convict is about 2 inches.
zix
09-29-2005, 9:39 AM
i am getting 10 friday micropeltes they have about 10cm( 3.9 inc)
will they eat one at the time leving the stronger or they go along
IoStrisciare
09-29-2005, 11:51 PM
i am getting 10 friday micropeltes they have about 10cm( 3.9 inc)
will they eat one at the time leving the stronger or they go along

they will go into a sort of piranha kind frenzy.
oscar1
09-30-2005, 12:17 AM
wow thats one hell of a monster would love to see a pic of him
zix
10-02-2005, 11:05 AM
so they gone be good all togeder :eek: no murder at i gone do whit 10 :D