Snakehead sizes?
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I have told this on here before a friend of mine had a 12ft with a red snakehead in it he had had this fish from it being 4in's long it was huge lived with a alligator gar Dorado's and a nile perch had grown up with them all ,and suffered them all , but as soon as you put any thing in of any size he would nail it! He bit a 2ft arrowana in half. The tail of a 2 ft knife fish. Also bit a huge giraffe cat in half "O" He also bit the head of the biggest wolf fish I have ever seen.........
kyle;2289116; said:
i supose this all depends on what you are expecting from it , aurantis are pretty docile with other fish , but hate each other , 9 times out of ten if a fish looks two big to eat in one go they just dont bother with it , if your mixing it with other fish then thats a good thing . also aurantis need floating cover in the tank to feel secure ,when they feel secure they should be hanging out under this cover for most of the day , also the hotter your water the less actice your auranti will be , they are sub-tropical fish and although they experiance near tropical temps in summer they are more active and start showing signs of breeding as the temps drop to around 18-20deg .
to be honest if you want a snakehead that is active as in swimming around all day you should you should maybe look at doing a swap for an pleuro , they are none stop and tropical , if you are looking for a snakehead that is going to attack every thing in site ,then you are probably keeping snakeheads for the wrong reason ,but you would be most happy with micro marulia or straita but theese fish come with big requirments and big responsability
like i say it all depends on what you are expection from the fish ,and how you are keeping it , a lot of people get parhana thinking there going to be exciting and then think they are boring after a few weeks , but this is mostly down to people having expectations of them that just are not true , i still get a lot of people say to me ,oh you keep snakeheads they grow massive and eat everything , well yes there is one snakehead that fits that description but there are over 32 that dont , i have a book here that i was just looking through and it has a small section on snakeheads it reads " you can be certain that you are not wronging any of them if you class the whole genus as murderous killing machines " and this is from tfh books .
so we are trying to edjicate people here and let them know this is not how they are at all , i think give your auranti some floating cover and iam sure you will learn to love him , after all a fully grown auranti is a sight to behold ,and no pictures can even start to do them justice
cheers col
I agree with tropheus, I say pleurophthalma. That's if you're looking for something that won't outgrow your tank, always active, compatible with other fish, and with nice color. Pleuro is your best bet. 
Hey, I remember this cobra... from awhiiiile back ago. I beleive it was 2.5ft. long.
Hey, I remember this cobra... from awhiiiile back ago. I beleive it was 2.5ft. long.
