First things first .. Details.
Last night I picked up my 4x new "Channa - Blue bleheri snakehead" as quoted by Canadian Aquatics which is the supplier that sent them to me. I am trying to confirm that they are indeed Channa Bleheri and not another species of Channa.
When they arrived they were all alive and kicking but I found the water had lots of small blue flakes of some sort in it. I'm not sure if this is something that Canadian Aquatics added to the water intentionally for the health of the fish or not.. I'm waiting for a response from them about this. All four were triple bagged seperatly.
After following the correct procedures I moved the channa into my tank and they all seemed to be healthy and swimming.interacting fine (few minor fights but they are snakeheads ..). The smallest is about 3" and the biggest is about 4 1/2" (on a side note my 1 1/2" clown loach made it through the night with them! .. fingers crossed)
Alright.. enough details, time for the pictures. I'm concerned because each channa looks VERY different. The smallest channa I will post first .. he is more of a dark color with the normal hints of blue on his belly and under his gills etc but its not virbant yet and his base color looks almost green/black. This is only the smallest channa though. The two biggest channa are a more pale/white color with no sign at all of blue in them. One has many dark stripes going through him, the other is just plain pale/white color. The fourth channa I haven't seen yet inside the tank because I added a fair amount of new sand the day before I picked them up and still waiting for the last bit to settle but he hasn't come out from hiding somewhere in the cloudiness yet for me to see him or get a picture. Here are the pictures..
One last note .. I attempted to feed them the pellets this morning that CA gave me free in the box that they have been feeding them. There was no sign of them eating any of the pellets so I removed them from the water.
Last night I picked up my 4x new "Channa - Blue bleheri snakehead" as quoted by Canadian Aquatics which is the supplier that sent them to me. I am trying to confirm that they are indeed Channa Bleheri and not another species of Channa.
When they arrived they were all alive and kicking but I found the water had lots of small blue flakes of some sort in it. I'm not sure if this is something that Canadian Aquatics added to the water intentionally for the health of the fish or not.. I'm waiting for a response from them about this. All four were triple bagged seperatly.
After following the correct procedures I moved the channa into my tank and they all seemed to be healthy and swimming.interacting fine (few minor fights but they are snakeheads ..). The smallest is about 3" and the biggest is about 4 1/2" (on a side note my 1 1/2" clown loach made it through the night with them! .. fingers crossed)
Alright.. enough details, time for the pictures. I'm concerned because each channa looks VERY different. The smallest channa I will post first .. he is more of a dark color with the normal hints of blue on his belly and under his gills etc but its not virbant yet and his base color looks almost green/black. This is only the smallest channa though. The two biggest channa are a more pale/white color with no sign at all of blue in them. One has many dark stripes going through him, the other is just plain pale/white color. The fourth channa I haven't seen yet inside the tank because I added a fair amount of new sand the day before I picked them up and still waiting for the last bit to settle but he hasn't come out from hiding somewhere in the cloudiness yet for me to see him or get a picture. Here are the pictures..
One last note .. I attempted to feed them the pellets this morning that CA gave me free in the box that they have been feeding them. There was no sign of them eating any of the pellets so I removed them from the water.
