Snakehead Tank Setup

[NitroK]

I'm planning to get a snakehead and want to know whether to have a bare bottom tank or gravel / sand. Any advice on tank setup - filtration, aquascaping for snakehead would be great.

 

[SIMKWANA OdDbALLs]

personal preference i'd say, obviously sh would be happier with scaping but would you??

 

[NitroK]

its not the aquascaping but the cleaning I'm worried about when that cute fish grows big

 

[SIMKWANA OdDbALLs]

oh i see lol, you could make a holding pen for him for cleaning or a temp divider-move him one side clean the other...simples, work around that? then you could aquascape it, i still think bare bottom is cool, few manmade hiding spots.??

 

[NitroK]

The aquarium shop guy gave me stern warning about this fish.....even suggested I get a lock for the tank lid. Spoke about one customer who ended up with seven stitches when he put his hand in the tank to adjust the filter pipe.

 

[komodo182]

what type of snakehead do you want?

 

[SIMKWANA OdDbALLs]

hahhaa, what are your reasons for wanting it, if it didnt have this rep would you still want it???? if you want it, listen to the warnings but get it...will be cool!!!

 

[Brucki]

Hi,

please please do not follow the above given very BAD advive.
A bare bottomed tank with no hiding places is really not a good place for ANY fish !!!

Channa NEED hiding places to feel secure, the more the better. In a tank with lots of hiding places the fish knows that every time he wants he can hide, but normally ot only takes a few seconds in a secure place when it gets disturbed and swims out to check whats up outside the tank.

I have tanks were really more plants and wood is inside than water, and in these tanks I can the se channa CONSTANTLY !!
In tanks with only few hiding places, the fish stay more shy and tyke cover more often.

Here are a few examples for how a channa tank should look like.
home of Channa lucia:

Home of Channa stewartii (on the pic but now housed by C. sp. Assam)

Channa pulchra (have fry atm)

Another tank (C. sp. "glaser-harcourtbutleri")

and so on...

Cheers

 

[NitroK]

Some people keep goldfish....I wanna giant snakehead (Channa Micropeltes).

They catch this fish everywhere around here (Malaysia)...mostly for eating. I just wanna get one for a pet. There was one was for sale two days ago - 3kg fish for RM50 (approx USD15)...for the dining table not the aquarium.

 

[Zfishies]

Um dude who posted up there, lots of people have it like that idk why it's bad when you have good filteration. It's not like live rock or live sand...