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bitteraspects;3615036; said:
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Could you elaborate please. Are you suggesting I am lying?

I have actually kept Exo's with Snakeheads and other fish and have expearenced what I have written. You are in Hawaii yes? Go and catch yourself a local Striata and cohab it with your Exo's.
 
jelly;3615907; said:
Could you elaborate please. Are you suggesting I am lying?

I have actually kept Exo's with Snakeheads and other fish and have expearenced what I have written. You are in Hawaii yes? Go and catch yourself a local Striata and cohab it with your Exo's.
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feel free to ship me yours. i will gladly put it in one of my exodon tanks and see what happens. i can guarantee it wont hold up against 300 exodons like it will against your 10-15
 
bitteraspects;3622770; said:
feel free to ship me yours. i will gladly put it in one of my exodon tanks and see what happens. i can guarantee it wont hold up against 300 exodons like it will against your 10-15
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So what you are saying is it is dependant on the number of Exo's? So if you have a number that the majority of keepers will have, 10 or so the Exo's won't be a problem?

Ok. I would agree that if you drop a small snakehead or any fish up to a certein size for that matter into a tank of 300 hungry Exo's the chances are it would get attacked. If it was introduced slowly I.E. floated in a bag until the exo's ignored it's intro it would be ignored and would reach a size where it would start to pic them off. I would suggest if I dropped 300 Exo's into a tank containing a small snakehead they would not attack the snakehead. I have had a Stewarti snakehead bite throught the bag contaning fish he considered eating. So what I am saying if they were introduced at the same time there wouldn't be a problem until the snakehead got big enough to eat them.
 
im saying that your generalization of "exodons will not eat a snakehead" is absolutely wrong and unwarranted. you should do yourself a favor, and actually think about what youre saying before making such a ridiculous statement.
i have personally seen than devour fish larger than themselves, and not just "silver scaled" fish, as you also claim.

also, there is no "introducing slowly until the exodons ignore it". sorry buddy, it just doesn't happen.

i know its rough being wrong, but try to take this as a learning experience.
no hard feelings ;)
 
exos will be ready snack for any respectable sized snakehead.
but the battleground has to be even.not dropping either side into the other's established tank
 
pyromaniac;3623205; said:
exos will be ready snack for any respectable sized snakehead.
but the battleground has to be even.not dropping either side into the other's established tank
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if a baby channa and a decent sized shoal of exodons are introduced to a tank at the same time, it can go either way depending on the aggression of the shoal, the individual aggression of the SH, the tank set up, who establishes themselves first, etc. There are entirely too many factors for anyone to make an assumption and claim it will be the "definite outcome".
What I can tell you is either way, it is not a good idea.
Either the shoal will pick the SH apart or just stress it to death, or the SH will eventually outgrow the exodons and attack. In either case, its not going to end well for anyone.
 
my bad fellow MFKs im...........newbooty n dont really know wuts going on in the fish game. caught my first glimpes of channa yesterday. sorry didnt mean to blow up the spot. thanks guys
-Mike
 
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