Yo, What will the result be when keeping Giant Snakehead fish with other fish or keeping them with a large bulky fish like red belly or black pacu and etc. My pond is over 500 gallons I haven't keeped an original giant snakehead yet and I think I have kept is the malabar x false gold toman snakehead Var. Hybrid that is related to its own cousin and it is less aggressive than the original toman I think and causing injuries inside my pond is the gator gar himself it wasn't the malabar toman or golden toman something? In my opinion but my suggestion is does anyone keeped a golden malabar snakehead or terms of called on a local pet store golden toman var hybrid? Any suggestions cause if I give all of my big fish that can't be take cared anymore cause I don't have time I will start for a small one again but I'll buy 3 juvenile fish against my money if my dad accepts my decision before buying it and also his decision too and pls tell me the compatibility and the issues before taking care and mixed them again in a over 500 gallon pond politely I'll decide to keep such as black pacu either red belly on which is available but not 2 pacus I'll just keep one pacu and the rest I'll keep one giant snakehead and one alligator gar thank you...
Keeping Giant Snakehead With fish Like?
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Giant snakeheads,while considered extremely aggressive, CAN be housed with other fish. My 500 gallon pond consists of a giant snakehead, a red belly pacu, a red tail catfish and two red devil/midas cichlids. However my snakehead was small, like 8 inches while adding it in my pond. All the other fish were larger or equal to it in size. My snakehead became used to these fish since it was scared at the start. Now it has grown up and become very aggressive, not towards the fish it grew up with, but with new added fish. It tried to kill both my florida gar and marbled walking catfish immediately after adding them to the pond, so they had to be removed.
In other words, if you plan on keeping a Giant Snakehead in a community pond, then always make sure that it is the smallest fish in it (not that small that is can be eaten by tankmates) and that the other fish can keep up with its extremely fast growth rate. Here is mine
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No personal experience, but from what I've seen it's possible. The difficulty lies in adding new fish to large channa, as they tend to attack anything new in their territory, regardless of whether it is of food size or not.
