Channa collection

[nicholasliao]

Super nice. I shared your pics with my friend who is keeping it. He is amazed at their colours your channa's have. Very vibrant.

Any tips on how to bring out their colours?

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[Sax]

Bro, beautiful shots. Its hard to find nice channa nowadays.

[_kai_]

Stunning as always Maybe a FTS?

Where did you buy these fish? online?:O they're stunning!!!

Thanks, i'll try to get some full tank shots . All locally bought, no online orders.

WOW!!
How many species of snakehead do you have???
Did you upgrade to a bigger tank? or still the 2 feet?

Currently have 9 species, tomorrow will be 10 . I have upgraded my Channa aurantimaculata and Channa asiatica tanks .

Wow...i didn't know channa so nice one...woo

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Super nice. I shared your pics with my friend who is keeping it. He is amazed at their colours your channa's have. Very vibrant.

Any tips on how to bring out their colours?

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Bro, beautiful shots. Its hard to find nice channa nowadays.

Thanks . Channa for sale are quite obscure, got to look in the corners of shops, than can see haha.

Nicholasliao - Yes, their colours will be brought out when they are comfortable. Therefore, less light and cool temperature for the subtropical species. For tropical species, their colours are pretty much there all the time .

Some new additions and updates. So sorry for the late reply, been busy even during the holidays!

My new family member : Channa asiatica 'red spots'


Channa asiatica 'red spots' by Aristoheliam, on Flickr

second piece


Channa asiatica 'red spot' by Aristoheliam, on Flickr

Channa aurantimaculata in his new setup.


Channa aurantimaculata by Aristoheliam, on Flickr

And a recent photo of my Channa diplogramma duo. One of them not doing so well...Unexpected and sudden problem. He is now lethargic and seperated from the other one. Heart pain to seperate, but better take precaution...

This photo was when they were together.


Channa diplogramma by Aristoheliam, on Flickr

Thanks for viewing, hope you guys like it!

[nicholasliao]

The feeding must be quite intensive just keeping 10 species at a time.

Frozen and live food?

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[_kai_]

11 species*. Forgot my little C gachua haha!

Yes feeding is quite intense, especially the babies. I feed pellets to those who can take pellets. Only live food is insects, crickets and mealworms. Sometimes ill throw in those baby tilapias for my C diplogrammas to mix it up. Mostly i use insects and Market prawns as staple. Alot of my Channas don't touch live fishes. If you see the chana aurantimaculata pictures, there are many small communitt tetras and other fishes living together with him.

[cherabin]

Hi kai. What are the tank sizes for the respective species?


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[_kai_]

Channa aurantimaculata - 4 foot tank
Channa asiaticas - 2ft cube each. Plan to pair together in a larger tank.
Dwarf Channas - 2ft tanks.

Its abit small for them but am working on clearing some space to upgrade most of their tanks.

[cherabin]

How about the diplogramma? Very curious as this species is a bruiser size if I don't remember wrongly.


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[_kai_]

Oh yeah forgot about them. He or they, are in a 5x2x2. One isn't doing so well, so it may just be one in the future. He is around 30cm now, half his maximum size. I think a 6x3x2 would be sufficient for him in the long run.

[_kai_]

Love is in the air tonight.


Channa asiatica red spot by Aristoheliam, on Flickr


Channa asiatica red spot by Aristoheliam, on Flickr

[johannes]

very nicely taken pictures!

[delhezi]

Any photos of either the bleheri or harcourtbutleri?

[eeJamboy]

Can we have photos to all of your setups please..

Its nice to see that you really put in A LOT of EFFORT per tank on just setting up the environment for these snake heads..

:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

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[_kai_]

very nicely taken pictures!

Thank you! comment much appreciated, hope you enjoyed viewing

Any photos of either the bleheri or harcourtbutleri?

Here you go . Old photos, Bleheri is long sold off. C harcourtbutleri just gave birth again...



Channa harcourtbutleri male (old pic)



Female (old pic)



My C harcourtbutleris are very hard to capture as they are very shy. Especially now, when they have a tank full of babies!

Can we have photos to all of your setups please..

Its nice to see that you really put in A LOT of EFFORT per tank on just setting up the environment for these snake heads..

:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

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When all my tank upgrades are up and runing, ill make sure to post . Should be up in 2 week's time week. Another 4feet project in the making. In the meantime, i hope these will be sufficient .
Channa diplogramma




Not hungry.



2 of them as of today. I like taking photos and watching them morph, i will do a compilation once they attain their adult colouration.





Thanks everyone for the views and comments, truly truly appreciate it! Hope to spread the Channa love!!

[delhezi]

Fantastic. Glad to see the diplogramma are doing better now.

Where did you pick out such a vibrantly colored bleheri?

[_kai_]

Thanks . The C diplogramma straight away ate live feeders. I use live only to get them back to feeding, i realise they would chase when hungry, natural instinct, thus they eat something rather than starve to death. Plus having a feeding buddy really helped him out i think .

-EDIT-

This C bleheri was from Aquaone if i remember correctly. I picked him with another one, all red spots, but that guy jumped out sadly, through a small gap. I picked this guy due to the blue scales on his face.

[eeJamboy]

"My C harcourtbutleris are very hard to capture as they are very shy. Especially now, when they have a tank full of babies!!"

You sure do provide your snake heads with the best possible biotope for them to behave naturally and to achieve their best coloration! :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

... And they even breed!!


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[_kai_]

"My C harcourtbutleris are very hard to capture as they are very shy. Especially now, when they have a tank full of babies!!"

You sure do provide your snake heads with the best possible biotope for them to behave naturally and to achieve their best coloration! :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

... And they even breed!!


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Thank you

Honestly they have been my passion for many years. I have explored many other types of fish and inverterbrates but have always came back or held onto snakeheads .

With these guys being all i keep, i try my best to provide them with what I can, so i am always trying to upgrade tanks and get more plants for them .

[delhezi]

Would you find C bleheri or harcourtbutleri a more satisfying species to have?

[_kai_]

It depends on the personality of the fishes. I adore my C harcourtbutleri for one reason, which is that they act like normal fish, they hide from me and don't beg me for food, unlike some of my other channas. But again, it depends heavily on what you're looking for and what kind of personality you would prefer.

Just to answer your question, i would prefer my Channa harcourtbutleri pair over any Channa bleheri. I've grown attached to them plus although they may be dull, they sure are interesting to watch.