"BLUE" Emperor snakehead (Channa marulioides)

[King-eL]

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.

 

[tunblue]

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.....
btw...u still keep that eel ???

 

[King-eL]

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.....
btw...u still keep that eel ???

Yep I still have the eel in a different tank and getting 3 more.

Been looking for a regular marulioides too.

 

[gigas12]

Hi,sorry for your loss,nice channas.

 

[King-eL]

Hi,sorry for your loss,nice channas.

Thanks!

 

[JakeH]

That tank is ridiculous! Watch your fingers bro. Beautiful fish.

 

[King-eL]

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]

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.....
btw...u still keep that eel ???

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]

SawtoothGrin

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....
Sadly to say,I even tried asking the owner to sell to me the 1 foot Emperor, but he refused.
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
will try n load some photos of the small one that i secretly took last time...
and will try n snap some pics of those 2 monsters tmrw... secretly...shhhh...
cheers..

 

[tunblue]

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