That's the question. Well, yesterday, I saw my flowerhorn attack and eat a smaller channa's eyes first. That channa is a feeder fish. Anyways, is it normal behaviour for flowerhorns or is this normal for most cichlids?
I dunno for real, but it's hard to run away when you can't see where you're going
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Don't worry, it's a 2 inches common snakehead and it's bred in farm. So kinda safe and cheap.Regardless of the species, eyes are always an easy target. They are soft and relatively unprotected.
Where I live people would kill for a chance to have a snakehead…and you’re using them as feeders?!
I would discourage from live feeding - it’s a risk for infection or damage to a fish that’s already starting life with a handicap.
Can you imagine living somewhere channel are so common they're used as feeders! WOW the dreamWhere I live people would kill for a chance to have a snakehead…and you’re using them as feeders?!
I agree - It’s just always fun to see how different regions see animals differently.They're just fish; nothing extraordinary about them....except for the fact that some people who aren't allowed to keep them have built up a mystique around them strictly because of that. But if they are common and cheaply available...and if someone intends to use live feeders anyway, which is a whole separate topic...why wouldn't they be useful in that role?
Just look at a typical Channa...or, for that matter, an Asian arowana. No spines...elongated, slender, flexible body...these things look like they were designed to slide smoothly and easily down a predator's gullet.
Human nature being what it is...the most valuable and coveted element on Earth is and always well be...unobtainium.