First time to keep snakeheads and love it! Would be nice if someone could help me identify my 4 new friends!
They are right now about 10cm and growing!
help identify my gaucha groupe
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First time to keep snakeheads and love it! Would be nice if someone could help me identify my 4 new friends!
They are right now about 10cm and growing!
It's quite hard to see what channa it is. It's just my preference but in nearly all my channa tanks i use black substrate to bring out their colors.
It could be channa gachua, and if it is, there are countless variants/localities that would indeed make it difficult to pinpoint. (especially if your specimen is under stress or not showing true colors)
Otherwise, my initial thought was channa lipor
It could be channa gachua, and if it is, there are countless variants/localities that would indeed make it difficult to pinpoint. (especially if your specimen is under stress or not showing true colors)
Otherwise, my initial thought was channa lipor
A mutch darker substrat will be arriving tommorow along with allot of floatingplants.
Thanks for you fast respons, i upload a new pic once they grownd a bit! Se if we can pin point it by then!
Thanks for you fast respons, i upload a new pic once they grownd a bit! Se if we can pin point it by then!
Im keeping them at 23 celicus. What would you recomend dc? Rescaping today. Mutch more plants and floating plants darker substrate and a few more good stones for hiding.
My goal is to find a breeding pair.
My goal is to find a breeding pair.
23 is not bad , if you can go lower it won't hurt. They are best kept unheated the seasonal fluctuations trigger pairing/breeding.
Floating plants will help, it darkens the over all tank makes them feel more secure. Floating cover also tends to choke out plants below them though so personally I use wood and leaf litter as decore with only a few low light plants but very thick floating cover above.
Temp wise mine get up into 23-24 for the summers , in the winter I aim for 14-15c and the tank gets down to 12c on coldest parts of winter .Gachua have a reputation for being more tolerant to higher temps and warmer winters but in my experience they prefer cooler temps and it really makes the colors pop on them.
Hope that helps!
Floating plants will help, it darkens the over all tank makes them feel more secure. Floating cover also tends to choke out plants below them though so personally I use wood and leaf litter as decore with only a few low light plants but very thick floating cover above.
Temp wise mine get up into 23-24 for the summers , in the winter I aim for 14-15c and the tank gets down to 12c on coldest parts of winter .Gachua have a reputation for being more tolerant to higher temps and warmer winters but in my experience they prefer cooler temps and it really makes the colors pop on them.
Hope that helps!
Hey!
I have about 20 degrees in my apartment, so you recomend i turn off the heater completly, the apartment gets quite warm in summers so maybe they then get a natural temp change durring the year?
When i came home from a 2 days trip today the colours are allredy started showing better! 1 of the smaller ones have started digging in the sant next to the Btn, i mean really dug quite a hole
is this breeding behavior?
In this writing moment two of the smaller channas dug a hole together. They stayed there for some time. After a while that is suspect is the male (due to the broader head) left the pit they dug, The fish that stayed (smaller head) Started showing coulors in just a minute or two?!
i am stunned, eager to know whats going on? could this be a couple forming?
I have about 20 degrees in my apartment, so you recomend i turn off the heater completly, the apartment gets quite warm in summers so maybe they then get a natural temp change durring the year?
When i came home from a 2 days trip today the colours are allredy started showing better! 1 of the smaller ones have started digging in the sant next to the Btn, i mean really dug quite a hole
is this breeding behavior?
In this writing moment two of the smaller channas dug a hole together. They stayed there for some time. After a while that is suspect is the male (due to the broader head) left the pit they dug, The fish that stayed (smaller head) Started showing coulors in just a minute or two?!
i am stunned, eager to know whats going on? could this be a couple forming?
The colour change happend in just a few minutes, now its not the same one on both pictures but the one with dark spots lookt exacly the same like the pale one. Coulor started changing when the pale one left the hole they so neatly dug together kind of rubbing themself a bit.Thank god for timmers, now my light fully gone out and the tank is pitch black. It's a savior or i would loose to many hours of sleep drewling on this fishes...