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lubz said:
What other fish I can add to the tank to make it "more lively" ?? I'm thinking silver/black arowanas
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Not recommended at all, The species your keeping just aren't compatible with anything. You may want to reconsider snakeheads all together. By the sounds of it your shooting for a mix pred tank.

As previously mentioned snake heads should be kept species only, alone or as a pair. If you want a tank that's full of fish and activity then snakeheads are not what your looking for.

There is one exception to the rule, channa pleurophthalma best kept in groups , quite active swimmers pack hunters and should tolerate tank mates that are too large to be eaten as they arn't overly aggressive. They should not be kept with your current snakeheads, but might be a species to consider switching to so that you can open the doors to other none-snakehead tank mates.

Hope that helps !
 
Ah.. Thanks a lot! I think I'll have a free tank when I sell my gars.. They are really very hard to handle. Crazy things.... Bite anything that goes in the tank. Worse than my snakeheads
After they're gone, I'll consider pluero in that tank.. But are they very easily avaliable in my county??? That's the real problem...

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lubz said:
Ah.. Thanks a lot! I think I'll have a free tank when I sell my gars.. They are really very hard to handle. Crazy things.... Bite anything that goes in the tank. Worse than my snakeheads
After they're gone, I'll consider pluero in that tank.. But are they very easily avaliable in my county??? That's the real problem...

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Are these your first snakeheads? if they're only 2-3" and don't bite as bad as gars, just wait... they will. When mine was a juvie he wasn't too bad at biting all the time and such however now, I wouldn't dream of putting anything else in the tank unless it's his dinner. He'll eat anything and everything from crayfish, crabs, feeders.... even fish almost his size he'll just attack until they're in pieces!
 
These aren't my first snakeheads.. 2 years ago I got a 30 cm African snakehead. Mysteriously disappeared for no reason. Literally vanished
Before were just polys, now when I got a big tank, I got these snakeheads


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I'm going to say this... Might shock you guys. I'm 16.. So very hard for me to go malaysia for no reason.. :p
I been keeping fishes since 9..so I generally know what I'm doing.. I also have my dad to help out. He was breeding seahorses many years back.. But stopped cause maintaining marine tanks are very expensive
Started to have interest in monster fishes, especially snakehead when I saw those cute little albino polys (poly and channa are called snakehead to me), which I got.. But eventually they got bigger and my tank was too small. Now I have this 6 foot tank to myself.. So yeah :D


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So nice to see young snakehead keepers. Im 18 and nobody around my age i know keep snakeheads. Btw pleuros do come into Singapore. Ive only seen it in one fish shop here so far, but i know that there are others that bring in. The ones i see them in come in very small.

Although it is really highly non recommended to mix snakeheads i have seen youtube vids of people doing it successfully with dwarves. But even so, with dwarves, you need a really really big tank for them to not fight, and even if everything seems fine, you'll never know, its like a ticking time bomb, very dangerous. Better to not waste money and unnecessary fish lives. Suggest you stick to species only tanks :)
 
Auranti said:
So nice to see young snakehead keepers. Im 18 and nobody around my age i know keep snakeheads. Btw pleuros do come into Singapore. Ive only seen it in one fish shop here so far, but i know that there are others that bring in. The ones i see them in come in very small.

Although it is really highly non recommended to mix snakeheads i have seen youtube vids of people doing it successfully with dwarves. But even so, with dwarves, you need a really really big tank for them to not fight, and even if everything seems fine, you'll never know, its like a ticking time bomb, very dangerous. Better to not waste money and unnecessary fish lives. Suggest you stick to species only tanks :)
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Agreed always nice to see young hobbiest interested in snakeheads!

Don't believe everything you see on youtube, you can put anything into a mix tank together for a short time. The stress of it all will keep aggression down those people with ridiculous mixes you see on youtube don't advertise the disastrous outcomes that followed or they make up excuses saying "the fish just started dying and jumping out for no reason" lol, it's not not reason it's bad mixes/care.

If you want to see a snake head at it's best stick to species only.
 
-DC- said:
Agreed always nice to see young hobbiest interested in snakeheads!

Don't believe everything you see on youtube, you can put anything into a mix tank together for a short time. The stress of it all will keep aggression down those people with ridiculous mixes you see on youtube don't advertise the disastrous outcomes that followed or they make up excuses saying "the fish just started dying and jumping out for no reason" lol, it's not not reason it's bad mixes/care.

If you want to see a snake head at it's best stick to species only.
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Thats true, even pairs may fight, yet alone different species in a tank.
 
-DC- said:
Not recommended at all, The species your keeping just aren't compatible with anything. You may want to reconsider snakeheads all together. By the sounds of it your shooting for a mix pred tank.

As previously mentioned snake heads should be kept species only, alone or as a pair. If you want a tank that's full of fish and activity then snakeheads are not what your looking for.

There is one exception to the rule, channa pleurophthalma best kept in groups , quite active swimmers pack hunters and should tolerate tank mates that are too large to be eaten as they arn't overly aggressive. They should not be kept with your current snakeheads, but might be a species to consider switching to so that you can open the doors to other none-snakehead tank mates.

Hope that helps !
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Devon,
What about C. marulioides?
 
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