Snakehead can be dead easily without based on my experience

[GaryTheGatorGar1]

Why do snakeheads especially toman fish get dead easily when out of water and put back in water within 0mins based on my experience this happened twice already Why Any ideas?

Thats why I dont trust search results: P

 

[Midwater]

Why do snakeheads especially toman fish get dead easily when out of water

Try to keep your fish in water.

 

[GaryTheGatorGar1]

ok thanks.

 

[Freeze Dried Skittles]

Channa Micropeltes have a suprabranchial organ, which is basically a lung, i think. That organ enables the Snakehead to breathe air out of the water. It also helps them breathe in poor water conditions. Snakeheads can survive out of the water for about 3 or 4 days, granted they don't dry out. I live in Florida and have caught multiple Snakeheads in lakes. They are invase here so we kill them. I have seen juvenile Snakeheads slithering along banks of lakes or canals, but never full grown ones. From what I've heard from some fishing guys down here, the juveniles can crawl out of the lakes to other bodies of water and begin to invade them.

I would personally recommend you do like Midwater said and

Try to keep your fish in water.

For what reason would you feel the need to take your Snakehead out of the water?

 

[GaryTheGatorGar1]

This is my pond with my apex fishes video:

 

[GaryTheGatorGar1]

Btw why do people feed platies instead of feeder fish as an snakehead food and their other fishes with platies?