a friend of mine had a micropeltes (giant snakehead) it was huge had it in a 12ft it was a monster ate every thing. Bit a 2 ft Arrowana in half bit the ass of a 2 ft knife fish and nearly had my hand off once so i would say that one!!!!!!!!
Cobra snakehead "Channa marulius"
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One definite way to tell marulias and marulioides apart if you arent into ray and scale counts is to ask which country it was imported from.If its India its marulias and if its Indonesia or round abouts its marulioides.You have a marulioides and personally I think you have the much better of the two.It should max out at 20-24",will have a better temperament although mine is only in with much larger fish just in case and his adult colours will be striking.The spots on the side lead to his eastern nickname of flower snakehead,quite deceiving dont you think.
i had a marulius very nice fish loved him to bits used to hand feed never vicous to me tho. was to the food tho 
stotty said:
nice pic
next time please ask me first cos its my picture
the fish starting this topic is a channa marulia
a marulioides is stockier and has a slightly different shape to the head
aurantimaculata is not a cobra
thats something tom halvorsen started on his list
common names for channa do nothing but to cause confusion
it would really be easier if everybody would use the propper scientific name
the info is there on the net all you have to do is look for it and use it
at least then we all know what fish we are talking about
Baloo, so what exactly do you mean by 'slightly different' head shape??... the pic below, what species would you say they are?.. marulia? marulioides?? 
Aurantimaculata pair here!
PhullTank57 said:Baloo, so what exactly do you mean by 'slightly different' head shape??... the pic below, what species would you say they are?.. marulia? marulioides??
Aurantimaculata pair here!
what i mean is that the head profile of a marulioides is stockier and shorter then marulia
someone once mentioned to count the scales behind the eye towards the end of the gillplate. not sure what he means to count for but the gillcover on a marulioides is is shorter then on a marulia.
i have only recently discovered this myself.
i suppose i couldn't see the wood for the trees.
i see you still keep ur aurantis with ur other fish
not telling you what to do but aurantis are a temperate species and can be real mean mothers. i hope it doesn't happen to you but i had then tear eachother appart. i personally wouldn't keep them with anything especially fish as nice as urs
i like that ray a lot
