My emperor snakehead (Channa marulioides)

[King-eL]

Saw these guys on river monsters, very cool.

Those from River Monster are channa marulius.

 

[skareb]

this is blue variant? but can still see plenty of yellow?
anyway this is a beautiful speciment, can see very well taken care

 

[King-eL]

this is blue variant? but can still see plenty of yellow?
anyway this is a beautiful speciment, can see very well taken care

Yep it's the blue variant. The yellow variant have yellow belly not light blue belly. Even the face is also yellow.

 

[tokyogasmask]

Yup my pair don't flower as much as the normal type Marulioides.
They are a pair and when they do the breeding "dance" the female color changes big time and her flowers pop out.

 

[King-eL]

Yup my pair don't flower as much as the normal type Marulioides.
They are a pair and when they do the breeding "dance" the female color changes big time and her flowers pop out.

Take some vids.

 

[tokyogasmask]

Shall do bud.
Seems to happen around October.

I guess this could be when their season is?

 

[King-eL]

Shall do bud.
Seems to happen around October.

I guess this could be when their season is?

Nice! By October I will soon have some baby aurantis. My pair are getting aggressive now but to each other. They want to nite me somehow. Keeps flaring whenever I go look at the tank.

 

[ella_wijaya]

channa blue marulioides = channa melanoptera (sumatra blue cobrasankehead)???? ...

 

[King-eL]

channa blue marulioides = channa melanoptera (sumatra blue cobrasankehead)???? ...

No this is not channa melanoptera. Channa melanoptera does not have the cardinal eye on the caudal tail.

 

[Oleoleole]

Blue marulioides don't really develop flower patterns compare to yellow marulioides.

But some blue spec will dev to full flower. Rarely with yellow spec although 7 bands.