channa species (12-14 inches)

[DannyLee94]

hello, i am buying a channa pulchra (burmese snakehead) tomorrow but was just wondering what is the most impressive and overall best channa variety that grows to around 12-14 inches, what are your opinions, all answers will be appreciated

Thanks, Danny

 

[south coast nelly]

how about channa barca
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCjXhTDvqew

also channa ornatipinnis<i have a group of six babie's left for sale, also channa pleuro are stunning

 

[DannyLee94]

thanks for your reply nelly, i know the size of the ornatipinnis as it is similar to the pulchra, but what size does the channa pleuro grow to?

 

[south coast nelly]

pleuro roughly grow to 16inches

 

[Adrian Dziki]

how about channa aurantimaculata ? that is the best choice in my opinion .

I think that channa barco grow bigger than 25inch ?
From the other side pulchra and ornatipinis never reaches a size of 11 inch ...

 

[south coast nelly]

yes sorry just thought it was a stunning species and had to show it, yes it grows somewhere in region of 3.5ft

 

[DannyLee94]

11 inches is fine with me, i have 3 snakeheads now:-

Channa Pulchra (Burmese Snakehead)
Blue Blerehi
and a new and rare species called lipor snakehead which size is unknown and has no apparent scientific name yet

any comments on that?

 

[south coast nelly]

have you got some pictures of the Channa sp Lipor Snakehead

 

[DannyLee94]

theyre only just settling into the tank know, when they have completely calmed down i will take some pics,

i was just thinking because this is an american site some of our yanky friends might have come across Lipor, no offence to the southern chaps

 

[south coast nelly]

haha you thought wrong, they are not allowed to keep channa in the usa...you will prob find the geman or polish brothers have come across them