Good Snakehead Substitute?

[chefwill]

You probably should stick with your betta if you can't house the most snakehead like fish that there is....

Haha, not sure about the similarities between a betta and a snakehead.starting to think this is a trolling thread

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[kno4te]

I think a red wolf or a good wolf. Probably be better as their pretty active. Always on the move and hunting for food. I visit India once in a while. My grandparents live 20 feet from a river down south in India. Snakeheads are everywhere. Too bad can't keep 'em in the US.


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[MN_Rebel]

Haha, not sure about the similarities between a betta and a snakehead.starting to think this is a trolling thread

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Actually there is some betta species that looks like a snakehead. One species even named after the snakehead.

 

[duanes]

Some of the wild type mouthbrooding bettas are very snakehead like, in fact distant cousins and if a bowfin is too large, they are probably right size (in fact very small)
this is Betta albimarginata from Borneo


and Betta edithae

I keep edithae with grow out cichlids

 

[kavin2845]

Red wolf fish

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Or polypterus, bichirs, they are also snakelike but not aggressive really to anything that's too big enough to eat. They do death roll like gators if they're trying to rip a chunk off a piece of tilapia or something

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i was thinking of a polypterus i had a sen a while a go, before i had to get rid of him and i really miss him, you seem to know alot about polyps what would be cool for a 75g?

 

[kavin2845]

You could move out of the usa. Come to the UK I know a where you can get one here.

lol considering it!

 

[kavin2845]

View attachment 1008012View attachment 1008013 snakehead gudgeon. Very aggressive predator that resembles the smaller snakeheads and only gets about 8 inches.

hes actually really pretty, ive never heard of this fish before, now i wanna set up a solitary tank for one, lets see if my LFS can get me one

 

[kavin2845]

Some of the wild type mouthbrooding bettas are very snakehead like, in fact distant cousins and if a bowfin is too large, they are probably right size (in fact very small)
this is Betta albimarginata from Borneo


and Betta edithae

I keep edithae with grow out cichlids

i really like the Betta Macrostoma they look really close to snakeheads, i should probably get one of these guys, would be a nice piece

 

[BuffaloPolypteridae]

i was thinking of a polypterus i had a sen a while a go, before i had to get rid of him and i really miss him, you seem to know alot about polyps what would be cool for a 75g?

You could get the most common being Senegal, albino or reg. Others that'd work would be mokelembembe, delhezi, any of the Palmas complex or retropinnis. First pic is a palma's polli, second pic is of a delhezi with a palma's buettokoferri under it

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[kavin2845]

You could get the most common being Senegal, albino or reg. Others that'd work would be mokelembembe, delhezi, any of the Palmas complex or retropinnis. First pic is a palma's polli, second pic is of a delhezi with a palma's buettokoferri under it

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i really like the delhezi, how was your experience with owning one? temperment? feeding response? active?