snakehead

Hello fellow fishkeepers, Got a blue channa pulchra recently (3"), needed to get as much info possible on it. How to tame it, what food brings out more colour, how to make it more active. how to sex, I'm assuming mine is a female (Can share pics to confirm). Want to create a biotype for it...

Can anyone tell me if this is a male or female?

This is Eddie. Eddie the eagle. It's my first snakehead (channa coccinea sp. ignis) and after the first few days i'm a realy big fan. At the second day after i got him, i fed him a wax moth with tweezers. I din't even get near to the surface, eddie jumpt out of the water and snapped it of the...

Hello guys, I have a andrao pair that incubated sometimes but always the male eats the eggs while incubating... Any tips to it doesn't happens? Parameters okay, tank size 100x40x50 cm, with coconut cutted and some plants, floating plants...

My snakehead Channa gachua is sick. he has on one side a hole that Is black and on the other side a bump that looks like a tumor. I once treated him for bacterial infection for two weeks but that didn’t seem to do anything. He is currently in an aquarium of 300 litres with a few bichirs and...

Need help sexing my blue bengal dwarf snakehead got him at 3 inches he is now 4.5 almost 5 and maxes out around 8 to 9 inches been trying to figure out the sex so I can get it a partner to breed anything helps guys new to this forum thing

Hi, I have a 300 gallon tank with an emperor snakehead (channa maru), albino silver arowana and 3 bichirs and in a seperate tank have two channa gachua dwarf snakheads. Would it be possible to add the two dwarf snakheads to my community tank or would the emperor snakehead eventually kill them

I'm planning on having my 14cm Channa YS be tankmates with my 8cm Oscar, and maybe add a Brushmouth Pleco and 2 Kaviat Albino fishes. Is that a good idea? Since i know Channa and Oscar are agressive fishes, so if there are any advice, it will be very much appreciated, before I might do a wrong...

Channa aurantimaculata (golden Kobra snakehead) for sale. Absolutely love this fish but will be unable to give it a forever home so hoping someone with a large tank would be interested. It's about 10/11 inch atm, been feeding on a mixture of live/frozen/pellet foods. In good health, is regularly...

hey guys, i have a 10cm Ghost KnifeFish and a 8/9cm snakehead (in my place we call it "Channa" fish?). i was wondering if they can coexist in a tank? im planning on moving them on a 50cmx40cmx30cm tank. every suggestions and opinions will really be much appreciated, thankyou :)

So i got 6 tanks right now and I need to move out my parents house..... Bassicly i need to rehome a lot of fish. But if its possible i would like to keep most. :) I have had most animals for more then 6 years or even longer. So what i have right now: -polypterus ornitapinus. (1x) -polypterus...

Hiii?. First time poster, so please go easy on me?? I have a Channa since two months ago and have fallen head over heels for this fish and the entire Snakehead species. These Channa need a new home but the current owner doesn't know what kind they are, just that the adults are around 40 cm...

This is my snakehead in a 1000 gallon aquarium.

Hi fellow friends MFK. newbie here first time owner of large tank and prefer canisters over sump. Tank setup for 2 snakeheads. 7ft x 3 x 2.5 that is approximately 393 gallons or 1500 liters. Will 2 eheim xl canisters be enough for beneficial bacteria growth and full cycle ? One canister on each...

hello, first of all. Im i in the right forum subject? Second of all I got a 2 meter aquarium around 800liters so thats 211 gallon My fish right now are : 3x polypterus (orni/delhezi/senegalus) 5x silver dollars 2x bullhead catfish (idk why but they are so friendly) 1x rope fish I wanted to add...

I'm planning on doing a dwarf sagittaria and sagittaria broadleaf carpet on my next project and I wonder if it's worth the effort. Will adult Channa micropeltes dig? Say 30" big? I'm planning a 2-3" thickness for sand supported by ferts for the sagittaria. If that does not work, garden soil and...

Looking for all kinds of peacock bass, arowanas, gars, goonch, Rays, bowfin etc

I got recently red Snakehead I have few queries please help me out Do SH have scales /can I treat them with copper medicine? My Snakehead is discolored black not active laying on top?what to do. After buying him from store I have been feeding him with small goldfish he devoured like anything...

Anyway to identify my channa gender?

Hello fellow fishkeepers... I have a Channa Bankanensis (around 5.8 cm) in a 2 ft planted (growout) tank. Temp is currently 78F. He is fed approx 1.3 cm of an earthworm every other day (sometimes three if he doesn't come to the worm I show him through the glass) supplemented by prawn, mussel...