My channa Striata fighting?

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I doubt they are any more or less tolerant then any other channa species. When young feeding well will limit deaths because at that stage of life there main threat to eavhother is cannibalism. As they mature the fights become territorial and no amount of food will stop that from happening.

And no 500l isn't even close to enough.

These fish grow to be 90-100cm long , and they grow very fast . You'll need something more along the lines of 2500-3000l min , probably more along the lines of 5000l+ to have any chance of a pair surviving together.
 
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These two pond never dried out during summer so I dont have to net the breeding pair. I dont feed them there are plenty frogs there. They will breed during rainy season twice a year. Sometimes three times depends on water volume. I usually netted the fry when they are still very small around 1 inch. I keep them for a while before release them in the wild because their population has decreased. I release 3-5 fry on every ditch and small stream around my villages.

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Can we really compare the behavior of channas in a setup where they might never encounter each other more than a couple seconds a month to a 300, 500 or even 5000 litres tank?

This is a huge pond compared to any tank anyone can ever keep. Hell, it almost looks like a lake...
 
i have smaller concrete pond i used to keep the striata. they are fine as long as you put net around the pond. they tried to jump everytime because territorial dispute but never attack each other.
 
adamjavaguy said:
i have smaller concrete pond i used to keep the striata. they are fine as long as you put net around the pond. they tried to jump everytime because territorial dispute but never attack each other.
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....so you forced them into a pond with netting because they were attempting to escape due to territorial aggression...but that doesn't count as attacking each other? They weren't having spirited discussions with one another that forced one to jump out of the pond.

You have no idea how many channa may have been killed in that pond due to aggression alone. Because they breed like rabbits doesn't mean they were fighting in the pond as well.
 
in the large pond i dont know what happen but they did breed. in smaller pond they dont attack. like chasing then retreat in very beautiful way. never found any damaged fin. i observed all the time they tried to jump if there is not enough food or they need larger territory, just jump and fail then few weeks later tried to jump again few times then the other tried . they likes to jump especially on rainy season.

two years ago when the water volume was really shallow i took all channa from the large pond. I caught ten around 20" channa and very big one the rest was hundreds smaller channa from some batch that i miss out to net. originally i only put one breeding pair there few years back. there was so many of them took me a week to catch all channa from the pond. even when the water completely vanished i still found one or two in the mud. i also found they migrate to my neighboor pond few hundred meters far. because they complain that there is snakehead in their pond.

from what i learn the smaller one tend to hide in very shallow water under the fallen leaves to hide from the larger one. they survive even when their own species is the apex predator.
 
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