Yep, that's what I've been trying to say. I used to own a micropeltes that got to 2.5 foot before i sold it, that fish was a killer of course but not a psycho like this one. This one is just crazy. It's definitely not a micropeltes. It looks like a striata, and it must be a big snakehead because it's had a phenominal growth rate.unknownuza13 said:
The convict was 4 inch with the tail and quite a bulky fish. It was hiding behind a sponge filter, the poor thing came out to eat a pellet and like lightning the channa grabbed it by the face and shook it and let go. The convict was half dead at this point with all the flesh scraped off, the channa immediately grabbed it again and shook it until half it;s head came off.
That's the most brutal thing it's done, it also killed a 4.5 inch hujeta by grabbing it from above by the back and shaking it, taking a huge chunk out of it.
That's also how it killed the dovii. The dovii must have given it the chance, not run away. Though the head did not come off, it was just mutilated.
Incidentally my jardini is a wuss. he's about 7 inches now and thickening up, he lives with some 2.5 inch tinfoil barbs, a 2 inch perch, a skinny 4 inch peacock bass, a 3 inch shark cat etc and he never touches any of them. He has never killed or hurt a fish.
I think some of yu got the wrong end of the stick, I'm not coming here bragging like "yO i GoT TeH SNAKEhEaD, hE sO baDaSS11"
I just think it's funny that a juvenile fish can be so aggressive, it's something I've never experienced before. I have a tank full of predators that all live in peach, no aggression, and this one little snakehead on his own that just tries to kill anything.
interestingly though he is nervous around people. When I come to the tank he dahes under his cave and pokes his head out.
