This is Eddie. Eddie the eagle.
It's my first snakehead (channa coccinea sp. ignis) and after the first few days i'm a realy big fan.
At the second day after i got him, i fed him a wax moth with tweezers. I din't even get near to the surface, eddie jumpt out of the water and snapped it of the tweezers. That was the point when he got his name.
The next day it was the same thing again, so i already thought this could get dangerous.
Today i wanted to do take risc and feed some pellets. I helt my hand emediatly short above the surface and dropped the pellets. Eddie wasn't patient enough and tried to catch them out of the air.
He took to much speed and jumped in a low angle out of the tank, crash into the shelf on the wall next to the tank and fell to the groud.
This was a big shock. First i thought he couldn't survive this, but the he started "walking", like a mudskipper or polyperus, across the floor. I put him back in the tank as fast as i could.
After a 5 minute break, he swam around like nothing happened.
I DON'T WANT THIS TO HAPPEN AGAIN!!!
There is no guaranty, that this find a good end the next time and i really like this fish.
Do you have any ideas, ho i can improve my setup or feeding process to avoid eddie from jumping during feeding?
I want to feed my fish in the water and not in the air.
It's my first snakehead (channa coccinea sp. ignis) and after the first few days i'm a realy big fan.
At the second day after i got him, i fed him a wax moth with tweezers. I din't even get near to the surface, eddie jumpt out of the water and snapped it of the tweezers. That was the point when he got his name.
The next day it was the same thing again, so i already thought this could get dangerous.
Today i wanted to do take risc and feed some pellets. I helt my hand emediatly short above the surface and dropped the pellets. Eddie wasn't patient enough and tried to catch them out of the air.
He took to much speed and jumped in a low angle out of the tank, crash into the shelf on the wall next to the tank and fell to the groud.
This was a big shock. First i thought he couldn't survive this, but the he started "walking", like a mudskipper or polyperus, across the floor. I put him back in the tank as fast as i could.
After a 5 minute break, he swam around like nothing happened.
I DON'T WANT THIS TO HAPPEN AGAIN!!!
There is no guaranty, that this find a good end the next time and i really like this fish.
Do you have any ideas, ho i can improve my setup or feeding process to avoid eddie from jumping during feeding?
I want to feed my fish in the water and not in the air.
