Please id my snakehead

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The LFS said something about it being a dwarf snakehead? Or a rainbow snakehead?
When kept alone he was quite the terror with a gold fish of mine and also with the pleco in the second picture but now he is with a oscar and a red pike(name might be wrong but its what the lfs had posted)
Now he is a very dull fish feeding him is almost next to impossible because he never swims to the top of the tank, when he does the other fish gulp up all of the night crawlers if he isnt fast enough.
I know hes not a very active fish and am not expecting him to be but i was kinda assuming he would be a fish that can be only by himself.
Ever since i have moved him to this new tank his aggression has minimized.

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wow no where near the 12 inches i was thinking of....
but on a side note recently i have put a jardini of mine from another fish tank into the tank he is in and now he seems to be somewhat charging it. I dont know if it has to do with his curiosity or because the jardini is smaller than him and he is showing his dominance?
 
Should haver done more research!
Your snakehead is a sub tropical fish.

You are keeping it with tropical fish.

Add to that that snakeheads are best kept in species only tanks.

Good luck!
 
Yea he is with a albino oscar, johanna pike, green phantom, common pleco, and the jardini.
 
Your Jardini is going to outgrow it and devour it in the future. Might wanna' watch out for that yea!
 
yup Bleheri. mine just died this morning... got hurt when it jumped out of the tank and just couldn't recover plus it wasn't eating. not your regular snakehead though this one, really picky with food. i tried feeder fish, mealworms, market prawns, frozen brine shrimp and frozen blood worms. it didn't eat any of it plus the water params were perfect. good luck with yours anyways.
 
circumbus said:
yup Bleheri. mine just died this morning... got hurt when it jumped out of the tank and just couldn't recover plus it wasn't eating. not your regular snakehead though this one, really picky with food. i tried feeder fish, mealworms, market prawns, frozen brine shrimp and frozen blood worms. it didn't eat any of it plus the water params were perfect. good luck with yours anyways.
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Mine acctually jumped out of the fish tank as well it was in the tank for a couple of months then one day it managed to get out. and moved all the way to the front of the fish tank. He was covered in cat hair and still is alive to this day. Doesnt eat a tit load but he does eat frozen blood worms and he does eat night crawlers but getting him to swim up to the top for me to feed him proves to be a challenge.(Oscar gets all of the food if its not eatten fast).
I basically have to drop it right in front of his mouth to get him to eat the worms tho.
But he is the smallest of the fish in the tank so he doesn't bother anything else in the tank.
 
this is likely because your not caring for it properly, this is a sub tropical fish that needs cooler temps too be comfortable and happy. given it's tank mates your likely heating the tank, you rainbow will die slowly because they are tough but it will die , in the mean time it will do anything it can to escape too find better water elsewhere it’s instinct

 
what temperature should he be kept within?
 
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