Hi,
I've bought (but not yet taken home), a juvenile channa pulchra. I am going to be keeping it on its own in a tank. He is currently around 2-3 inches. His first tank will be about 70 litres, however this will be upgraded within the next year, probably to the 4 foot tank that is currently holding my community fish. Anyway, I was just wondering, I keep getting conflicting info on the best water parameters and tank setup. Has anyone kept these before? And please can I have advice on food - I was thinking frozen bloodworm/tubifex/mussles as well as whitebait and prawns. Any help will be appreciated please, I have about a week til he comes home (I need to move my goldfish and sunfish out of his home first as otherwise they might make a tasty welcome home snack) Any help would be appreciated,
thank you
Hannah
I've bought (but not yet taken home), a juvenile channa pulchra. I am going to be keeping it on its own in a tank. He is currently around 2-3 inches. His first tank will be about 70 litres, however this will be upgraded within the next year, probably to the 4 foot tank that is currently holding my community fish. Anyway, I was just wondering, I keep getting conflicting info on the best water parameters and tank setup. Has anyone kept these before? And please can I have advice on food - I was thinking frozen bloodworm/tubifex/mussles as well as whitebait and prawns. Any help will be appreciated please, I have about a week til he comes home (I need to move my goldfish and sunfish out of his home first as otherwise they might make a tasty welcome home snack) Any help would be appreciated,
thank you
Hannah
they eat anything meaty, I feed mine fresh prawns, live locusts and crickets, small frozen fish and I feed cichlid gold medium pellet as a staple, water perimeters are the same as most fish except they are sub tropical so need the temp around 20-25c and you probably already know but they can't be kept with anything else, the lfs I got mine from lied and said I could keep it with bigger fish and it kicked the absolute s*** out of an Oscar that was in my QT tank as soon as i let him out of the bag and was told on this forum they are species only. 
mine it seems have better ethics and told me not to keep with anything - it will eat anything that moves they said.... Thanks for the advice, I will stock up on some tasty meaty treats for him when he comes home 
nitrites are too high in my other tank still, so he still has a "welcome home snack" swimming around his tank.... I want him by the end of the week though, running out of excuses to go to the fish shop now!