Channa gachuo?

[NHKG]

I have 6 channa. These fish were sold me as Channa sp. fireback. But I think they are Channa gachuo, because they were cheap (8 euro for 6-8cm fish). Can you please ID this fish?
I added lot of tubes as hiding places. But they are not shy at all.
I wanted to buy Channa andrao (bleheri BLUE), but they were sold out immediately after importer put them in stock. So I pick up i LFS, what they had.

 

[Mazhar26]

They r very young bro difficult to tell,, lfs might be right, and gachua has hundreds of variants, fire back is one of it,,, they can reach up to 8" , so long way to go

 

[NHKG]

OK, thanks for replay. I will wait and post some more photos later.

 

[NHKG]

More photos.

 

[Mazhar26]

Looks like they r fire back,,,

 

[NHKG]

They are only 4-5inch long, but they fight already.





Bitten fish:


Dominant fish:

 

[Boyette]

Beautiful group!...How often are dwarf species available at lfs in your area? Are they usually obtained by request, or are they readily available?

 

[NHKG]

I live in Czech Republic and all channas are extremely rare here. I have never seen them in LFS.
But in Poland (less than 100km from mine house) is LFS, which usually has 2 species of channa in stock (1 small like gaucha and second big like barca).
And in Germany is one of biggest fish importer - Glaser. Glaser has usually around 10 channa species in stock. I can order any fish Glaser has in stock via LFS in Poland.

 

[NHKG]

Dominant fish has nice colours and is 18cm (7inch) long (16cm without tail fin).
I still have no luck with pairing.

 

[Mazhar26]

They r looking beautiful