Snakeheads..

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ettfettbranamn

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..are truly and utterly awesome! I really feel for you guys who cannot have them! they are really the most intelligent and interactive fish I know except for possibly dats.

I just went outside to dig up a couple of juicy earth worms, the rope fish went for it straight ahead but the young snakehead who have never seen a worm ignored it. what he/she did was to just hoover above the rope fish as it searched the area. when the rope had eaten 3-4 worms the snakehead realized that worms were eatable and firmly puffed the rope to the side and snatched a worm. this can just mean one thing, the fish is able to learn by watching! :headbang2 wellwell.. nothing spectacular but still pretty awesome.. my 25" marulioides is able to tell different people and tell which foods comes in which packages.. the only fish I have ever owned that were able to make "decisions" were my 16" and 10" dats.
 
Casper2000;3637345; said:
what exactly do u mean by ur dats made their own decisions? and word I want a pleuro, but I love in in NY :(.
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I was a bit unclear, sorry.. what I meant was dats and channa are pretty much the only fish I have seen make decisions based upon some sort of intelligence.. what I mean is they seem to recognice faces, the colour of the food bag (if it is the sinking blue bag she stays at the bottom and will come to the top and wait at the spot where I usually feed). She seems to understand the fact of her being in a tank and so on.. no matter how excited she get she never rams the sides or anything, the waterchanges never bother her like it does with many other fish..

unfortunately I have no pics of the small sh's but I have a couple of pictures of my big girl and the dats..

also a vid..

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ettfettbranamn;3637275; said:
..are truly and utterly awesome! I really feel for you guys who cannot have them! they are really the most intelligent and interactive fish I know .
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rub it in why dont you? throw some salt in that wound too mate....

j/k, they are awesome, I wish that I could have one.
 
Bichisaur;3637527; said:
Those flowers are killers, what did you do to help her develop those flowers?
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not much.. hikari, much space, soft water and love.. :D haha.. actually I've been following the debate on flowering of the channa marulioides and personally I think good food, space and stimulance combined with as little stress as possible are the keys.. and ofcourse genetics.. I have 2 in a grow out tank right now, I'm trying to replicate the conditions of the "big" tank to see if I can get a similar pattern on the small ones.. but as beautiful as she is I would love her just as much if she had the dull brownish colour..
 
snakeguy101;3637547; said:
rub it in why dont you? throw some salt in that wound too mate....

j/k, they are awesome, I wish that I could have one.
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*throwing salt*

nah, I think its a imbecille law.. sure I can see why florida would have a ban but lets face it, its just a tropical fish with a temper. I'd say the northern pike would be a bigger threat to any domestic spiecies than most snakeheads, big, verocious and can swallow amazingly big prey..
 
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