legendary snake heads and

[candidpets]

wolf fish? gator gars? etc..


Ok i work in an aquarium and a co worker who claims to have a lot of experience with the most aggresive of worlds monster fish told me a wolf fish he has had has torn apart gator gars double the size of it, i guess i believe it since gars seem kinda wimpy when it comes to fights as a puffer fish have killed them easy


but then he told me snakheads are the only fish that could easily kill one the same size and that they could kill a goliath tiger in seconds, even a great baracuda (IF THE CUDA WAS FRESH WATER LETS SAY) Or a moray eeel.

IF they were that powerful wouldn't they be killing people like cudas and the eels sometimes do? Ive seen small dogs catch and kill big snake heads.


At my store we had 2 3 or 4 foot great baracuda and a small honey comb eel around 4 foot the eel totally dominated the tank which also had a few types of groupers it even killed a grouper.

Another store has a green moray and a black tip reef shark. NO WAY in hell is a snake head gonna take out that eel it could swallow the snake head whole

i was told the snake heads kill adult pike and musky in the wild and have reduced their population? Well a cuda a real great cuda is no bike. I have seen documentary where they have jumped into boats and sliced people open. I can't see a snake head killing that.

WTF Even a goliath tiger fish full grown? getting killed by a snake head would just be so wrong lol

 

[candidpets]

ok i understand a tiger fish might not fight back but a wolf fish would so how would a snake head protect itself from huge teeth of a black wolf? Co worker thinks they are apex predators. I am sure i saw a otter kill a huge one some where.

 

[krichardson]

LOL!

 

[candidpets]

YES LOL batman how u look

 

[candidpets]

I always thought a foot long fhaka puffer would ruin a same size wolf fish or snake head until i saw a octopus eat a puffer with no prolem? I thought they would have killed the octopus also even tho it was a salt water puffer which i heard were worse!

 

[hooliganATV]

without fueling a fire, all these fish occupy the same level in the water but from different places.

a lot of the claims above are often heard, but the facts are different.

first off from my knowledge i would say if i dropped my male dovii in my SH tank then the snakes would kill it and they are 7" at most and he is 13". first the temp in my SH tank is 20-23 my dovii would be slow and less active,snakes hit hard and fast a bit like RBP in and out and in a group are devastating, clever enough to avoid the head of prey and a bite that can bite through a crayfish easily. my SH tank is the only one i have or have had that i question whether i need to put my hand in or not.

so really it depends on the circumstance.

the octopus and puffer is a case of limbs v no limbs both have beaks and both are venomous to some degree, a lot of time a puffer loses but wins in the long game as the thing that eat it dies from the toxin in it body. also let's not forget studies on octopi have shown them to be one of the most intelligent animals in the sea and can learn just through watching another one or seeing how a fish acts to certain attempts at it.

 

[candidpets]

when it comes to true monster fish i do not even put fish like cichlids in the same world as them, look into a devils mouth or dovii even then a wolf fish or goliath tiger they are something on a total nother level. The same level id put as piranha. CIchlids are like g0ldfish almost yes they are my fave of them all but they arent on their level I think it is cruel keeping them with fish who have huge teeth like others. EVEN IF A CICHLID CAN KILL A LONE RED BELLY by using its brains. IVe seen crows kill hawks using their brains as well as ravens.

 

[rodger]

I'm just wondering how many of you have ever even seen a snakehead? Most of them are pretty mild mannered and like to hide. Other than the giant, they aren't that big of a deal.

 

[Fat Homer]

^ i've seen my fair share of smaller ones in person and agree they arent all that active / predatory unless hungry...

 

[krichardson]

I'm just wondering how many of you have ever even seen a snakehead?

Rodger I see that this thread has accomplished one good thing and that is luring you out from hiding.