feed them shrimps man, after about 3 days they will probably be eating. my snakehead only likes things tht move. hahah
GUYS NEED HELP ! WHAT DO I FEED MY SNAKE HEAD ?
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feed them shrimps man, after about 3 days they will probably be eating. my snakehead only likes things tht move. hahah
Well I have snakeheads like that too! Mine r darn greedy and would eat anything(literally)if I put some feeders,it would get 1 first b4 the arowanas,PB or datnoids!THEY R GREEDY!!!!
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hahah, yup, i always annoyed by tht, when i put the bigger shrimps in there for my red devil, it always gets it first. will eat another one even if it's mouth is full. O.O
Hello friend, please don't mix them or they will fight untill one of them dead.
I have seen only 1 tank with 2 species of SH mix together near LFS here. Marulioides and Lucius. In fact, they'd shared same place at wild.
even if with the same species? i saw in a lfs, they put more than one giant snakehead in one tank. is it okay?
Eventually they kill eachother unless it's a HUGE tank and a breeding pair who have excepted eachother as mates... Best not to mix snakeheads of the same species or other species it is just a matter of time before one kills the other(s). Also not a good idea to mix it with any other fish at all the snakehead will kill the tankmates when he gets big enough to do so. Micro's are netorious for getting along fine until they hit that 16" mark or so out of the blue they snap and end up killing everything else in the tank over night.
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As for feeding snakeheads, it does depend on species, micropletes are piscivores meaning they primarly eat other fish so you should try to mimic this in the diet. I'd avoid live feeders unless your breeding them yourself, it's much to easy to spread diseases and parasites feeding live. Don't feed him beef/lives/organ meat/chicken etc they cannot properly digest mammalian meat eventually will cause health problems.
If healthy and kept properly snakeheads will eat absolutely anything, Chopped frozen food's are the best option for that species chopped shrimp,silversides/smelt, talapia etc most will easily convert over to pellets as well, I've owned many snakeheads they all eat anything that lands in the tank.
And as others have warned channa micropeltes get huge and fast, your going to need a 300g+ tank in a matter or months, they'll outgrow that 50g in a couple moths time at the most.
ohh, actually i dont have a giant snkehead, just a channa striata, found it in a drainage, hahah. now it's a just about 3" long. thanks though for the info. yup, i tried mxing it with my oscar and they didnt worked well. i would probably let it go to someone else. it would definitely not fit my tank when it grows up. O.O
i got striatas too. from malaysia and thailand. the striatas thailand group i got 6 of them. about a month everything is fine. but when one of them got bigger he starting to attack others and killed 4 of them. including one become his supper hahah. lastly got seperated the last two. but striatas from malaysia doing fine. just sometimes they just fight for fun i think 
you could try but just prepared spare tank.
you could try but just prepared spare tank.
