new to this forum...xD. i need to know about fish..compatibility...issues.

[micropeltes95]

so i've got this...35cm x 30cm x 20cm tank. inside it are juvenile giant snakeheads(channa micropeltes) approx. 11-13 cm each. gonna get them a bigger tank eventually(saving up for it now). i keep them with a bristle-nosed plecostmus. they pretty much left him alone after they realised they couldn't penetrate his exoskeleton.
but what i mean is...besides the pleco, what other fishes are compatible with giant snakeheads? and will a red-bellied pacu fare well with them? is it appropriate to keep a walking catfish with a senegal bichir and armoured bichir? i have read of walking catfish nibbling on the fins of larger fishes kept with them
(sorry wanted to upload some pictures of them but they keep informing me of a "failed upload" :\)

 

[CaRONG]

Heey welcome to MFK. From what I watched on river monsters, snakeheads kill everything. I'll give you some examples:
[YT]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y3rFkG3xNY[/YT]
[YT]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPGmvemG6fk&feature=related[/YT]
[YT]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6_9TP4cxEc[/YT]

I guess you can keep it with other snake heads and a yabbie like in the vid? Any pro's out there?

 

[bobtan]

you gonna need a pond man not a tank

 

[micropeltes95]

i have four of them. gonna sell them and keep one eventually when i get a bigger tank. i was considering keeping them with a pacu but i have threads of pacu biting snakeheads to death, and of snakeheads taking chunks out of pacus, and also, of snakeheads AND pacus living together in peace. no definite answers so far

 

[tokyogasmask]

I find it so irresponsible that people buy Micros (or any fish for that matter) without doing at least basic research!
If you did you would know that those micros will outgrow that tank in a matter of weeks.

And you will SERIOUSLY need a pond for these, they bro very very large very very fast.

 

[micropeltes95]

hm. i did do basic research. i do know about them. they are aggressive predators that can grow up to a metre or even more. and much more trivia about them that i see no need to state. a large tank would be suitable to keep one, no?
not a matter of weeks, i have had them for two months(?) maybe and they've grown from about an inch or two to their current 5.

 

[micropeltes95]

hm. i did do basic research. i do know about them. they are aggressive predators that can grow up to a metre or even more. and much more trivia about them that i see no need to state. a large tank would be suitable to keep one, no?
not a matter of weeks, i have had them for two months(?) maybe and they've grown from about an inch or two to their current 5.

err when i said a large tank i meant me purchasing a large one when i had the..sufficient funds.