Problam With Snakeheads.

[Tamil Tiger]

hello, i am new to this forum.. i have some wierd problam..

i am keep on finding dead snakeheads with tail damaged.. there is nothing in the pond that take on this fishes.
3 dead so far with similar damage to the tail.

what it could be? some kind of disease? (fresh wounds.. no aged brown/white bits on the wound.)

thanks.

 

[Vin Swords]

r they ceylonese? they bite each other aswell.. what els u have with them and wat u feed them?

 

[Tamil Tiger]

r they ceylonese? they bite each other aswell.. what els u have with them and wat u feed them?

yeah they are ceylonese. they live with giant gouramis, pangasius catfishs, tiger oscars, and some large cichlids. i feed then mainly ruby, black barbs and frogs and high iron river algae. also i feed them american cichlids as treat now and then.


i dont think food/protian is the problam.

 

[simonas]

could it be the snakeheads themselves? they get extremely aggressive when maturing

 

[england]

When you say ceylonese, do you mean Channa orientalis?
If yes then you are going to suffer keeping these with oscars and cichlids, how big is your pond? if these fish feel to much fear they will try to espape trying to find new waterways, if you could tell me the full latin name, channa?

also what sort of fileration do you run, temp of the pond ?

 

[Tamil Tiger]

yes i think its ''Channa orientalis''. not sure. we call it ''Pulliwhal Paampu Thalai'' and we have 4 or 5 types of snakeheads in local. ( jaffna. sri lanka)

its a 24' x 15' kind of egg shapped pond. 2 to 10 feet deep. temp is 24+ some time it will go up to 30c. i pump well water for 2 hours twise a week and let the pond water drain by over flow. i got net around the pond. so no jumping.




i find no problam with keeping them with large cichlids. some of my friends too keep cichlids and snakeheads together.

 

[england]

so its 24 feet, sounds big, but i would highly reccomend sorting a filter out for this, you could go with a bog filter, but as to keeping these channa in there, i would highly reccomend against it, they will be scared all the time, you say you find no problems keeping them together, but obviously you are if there turning up dead, i will say its more than likely through fear and bullying by the others

 

[Tamil Tiger]

my cichileds are around under 10 inchs. snakeheads are almost 2 foot. so i dont thing its a problam. i have checked all the fishes conditions . all are fine. took 4 5 hours do it. planing to remove 3 big snake heads and replace with gold cobras.

i try the filter but found it no good. bad algae problams.. changing 100% water twise week is ok. i do these for years. plus pond has rocks and sand at the bottam.

 

[england]

24 inch snakeheads?
thats not ''Channa orientalis'' as these are dwarfs, try catching one and taking some photo's.....

 

[I Keep Fish]

I'd guess they are red snakeheads?

 

[gasmask]

I'd guess they are red snakeheads?

Thats not a red snakehead.

Thats a Channa Marulius.