snakeheads, various tanks

[Brucki]

I'd like to show u some pics of my snakeheads.
Unfortunately they are illegal for u in the USA, but luckily I live in Germany where they are legal.

Channa gachua:

Channa stewartii:

Channa sp. Assam:

Channa bleheri:

Channa obscura:

hope u like 'em

Brucki

 

[Fluff]

They are incredible! Thanks for sharing.

 

[rich311k]

nice fish.

 

[cichlidman06]

nice fish bro

 

[rippin17]

wow... they are great looking!

are they all in the same tank?
do u have any full tank shots?!

 

[Toirtis]

Very nice....I am considering some bleheri myself.

 

[StngStr]

what do u feed them?

 

[Zagz]

They are beautiful! What sizes are they?

 

[czcz]

Neat tank

 

[h8z2luze]

Wow I dont knwo about illegal cause I saw someone with them here before but shh you didnt hear that from me. But ya they are cool fish for sure!

 

[Xetox]

Very nice...would like to see some full tank shots!

 

[roka64]

I think some one let them out in the wild, around the MD area and they are causing problems...At least that was some time last year. They can "walk" from lake to lake, I believe...
Those are nice looking fish!

 

[Xetox]

WOW walk to lake to lake? That would be really cool to see

I beleive one of the old fishing games I had on the PS snakeheads would be the most common catch.

 

[Guest]

Awesome fish. I just posted a thread a few weeks ago in general fresh. See: Snakeheads?? Great pic. of one caught in a pond or something. I was out of the hobby about 4 years and couldn't believe they were outlawed. Enjoy them

 

[Guest]

I seen the trouble they cause frist hand last yr. I went to visit my uncle in Marland and they where doing a swep of a local lake trying to put a end to the snakeheads in the lake some they where bring out of the lake was right at 5 to 6foot long huges fish. They said that they had been someones pet fish then when they got to big for the tank. They just dumped them in the lake and now they have completly killed of the catfish and bass in the lake and was moving throw the canals and moving into other lakes.
They hwere giving cash rewards for people turning the ones they cought in. I can't remenber the name of the lake or the river that was feeding it, but they where moving throw the lakes like wild fires.

 

[Guest]

They are nice, but that is terrible. Some people are ignorant to the nature of natural predators and messing with the environment. I am sad to say that my own brother put his snakehead in a lake in Massachusetts when it was 1 foot long. He would not listen to me. Just one of the many challenges our hobby is up against.

 

[Guest]

That's like the peacock Bass here in a local lake. There not a killer so to say but they have moved in and started taking all the vegatation away from the catfish and Smaller bass. It had to have started with two or more just droped in the lake. It's not the black water there use to but who knows how long they had been adjusted to the local water here. Befoore they where added to the lake.

 

[hc8719]

ya i heard that they eat everything, and were going from pond to pond eatting everything, i suppose they have that labrynth organ like moonlight gourami's

 

[Toirtis]

ya i heard that they eat everything, and were going from pond to pond eatting everything, i suppose they have that labrynth organ like moonlight gourami's

Yes, but a somewhat better one...almost like lungfish and bichirs.

 

[Sicklid]

Just to let yall hear a little story about my SH's... I had a pair as a teenager in NY... Raised em from little babies to about a foot apiece in a 55... were the only fish my red devil did not even attempt to brawl with. One winter day I came home from school to find one dry, dirty and dusty underneath the baseboard radiant heater along the wall behind the tank. I mean, he looked DEAD! Bone dry to the touch. Not knowing what else to do, I put him back in the tank, and went to get a plastic bag to dispose of him in. When I came back into the room, he WAS ALIVE AGAIN and swimming around looking for a few dozen goldfish to devour. They were cool fish, but I was young and dumb for even keeping fish that grow to be 5 feet in a four foot tank.