Snakehead advice

[Amphilophus88]

Hi,
I decided I want to try a snakehead.
I have a 720 liter (+-190 gallon) tank with an Amphilophus Amarillo male, a Jack Dempsey female and a smaller type of pike cichlid (Proteus). The Amarillo is 14 inch, the Dempsey 7-8 inch and fullgrown, the pike is also around 8 inch and almost fullgrown. So I'll have to watch out for the Dempsey and Pike.. I guess the Amarillo will be fine in most cases.

There is a shop close to me who sells different types of snakeheads.. I'll just put the list right here..
channa gachau
channa stewardii
channa pulchra
channa aurantimaculata
channa bleheri
erethrinus sp rio madre
erythrinus erythrinus
amia calva

I've been doing a little research on snakeheads and I suppose Amia Calva get's waaay to big.
I think Bleheri is an option.. but from what I've read they stay quite small. Maybe Aurantimaculta can also work? or one of the others?

Thanks in advance

 

[tokyogasmask]

Only the top 5 in your list are snakeheads, and NONE of them are compatible with your tank.

 

[Amphilophus88]

Oh I thought the top 5 are Channa and the rest was also called snakehead.. none are compatible? I'm sure one has to be.. not even Bleheri?

 

[Brucki]

Hi,

tokyo is right, the first 5 are snakeheads (Channidae), the erytrinus are no snakeheads at all, they are wolf fish (carachins), and amia calva is an north american native fish. They look a bitr like snakeheads, but they are not related to them. They are a very old fish family (Amiidae) called Bowfins in english.

Channa are not suitable to be mixed with such agressiv cihlids that you have. Channa aren't good community fish at all. They need species only tanks.

The smaller species you mentioned will be terrorised by the cichlids, and most of the named species are subtropical (except gachua) and need way other temoperatures than your stock

 

[kamikaziechameleon]

Your tank is to small for large aggressive snakeheads and to aggressive for smaller dwarf snakeheads.

 

[Amphilophus88]

Ohh I see, the cichlids would stress the channa.. I was more worried that the Channa would attack my cichlids. Thanks for the advice.. I guess I'll look for some other fish to go with my cichlids.