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?
Is it normal for flowerhorn to attack to eat fish's eyes first?
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I dunno for real, but it's hard to run away when you can't see where you're going 
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.
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.
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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.
Can you imagine living somewhere channel are so common they're used as feeders! WOW the dream
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.
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.
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.
I figured the op was in a region with abundant snakeheads, no different than if I used a sunfish as a feeder.
