when do "red line" SH loose there line?

[oogie]

i bought a "red line" snake head a couple days ago , its about 2"-3" long but dosent have a hint of the red line on its sides, it has a darker black line down the middel with a lighter underside and darker above with some faint blotches, so i wondering if it is a red line(channa micropeltis?) that has just out grown its juvenile colors or possibley some other channa sp? also anyone know about how often i should be feeding him? right now hes getting about 3 new born guppy fry a day but is this too mutch or not enough?

thanks

 

[rumblesushi]

it probably isn't a micro then. Their line usually dissipates and blurs out at around 10 inches.

 

[oogie]

well i gess i will have to start looking then if it not a micropeltis is there a chance it will grow even larger?

 

[rumblesushi]

I doubt it no, micros are probably the "biggest" snakeheads. The only snakehead longer than a micro is a marulius.

Do you have a photo? I could probably tell you what it is.

 

[superkimchiman]

argus is big too

 

[sgland]

As micropeltes grow, the redness becomes black. In some cases in adults, it may even be fringed with purple and green. The line usually break up into 'patches' at 11-13".

 

[oogie]

no i dont have a pic my digital camera sucks and iam not even sure how to get the pics on the internet anyway(i suck at commputors)

but iam going nuts because iam not sure what kind of SH this is is there a list someware online with pics of SH or somthing like that?

 

[sgland]

but iam going nuts because iam not sure what kind of SH this is is there a list someware online with pics of SH or somthing like that?

You can try http://www.snakeheads.org/

 

[Euge]

mine is 7.5 inches it still has its black horiztonal stripes. mine never really hard a noticable red stripe but its tale is red. I can kinda see the vertical stripes/blotches starting to appear.

 

[oogie]

well i took a good look at snakeheads.org and the closest pic i found was parachanna insignis, has anyone kept this kind before? how big do they grow ect?

thanks