AquariumsDownUnder   View topic - Wild Snakehead And Fry

Hi All,

There's a beck/stream that runs down the side of our home, most of the year it's dry, it's a runoff for when the village lake floods, but after the floods and the water subsides theres usually small pools left, which eventually dry up. I managed to capture a few photos of a snakehead and it's frys...

You can see the Snakehead below the white bag and it's fry above the white bag..there where hundreds of them, a beautiful red/orange in colour.




Here the Snakehead is to the left of the bag with the fry to the left of the Snakehead.




Where ever the fry went the Snakehead was not far behind, if any other fish came near the Snakehead would chase them away...here the Snakehead is surrounded by it's fry.




Here the Snakehead is to the left of the bag once again and it's fry above it.



I asked Wan what would happen to the Snakehead once the pool dried up and she reckons it's digs an hole in the mud and burys itself until the next floods come...this year though we had more rain just before the pool dried up and the beck/stream filled up again and I never seen the snakehead and fry again...so I imagine the snakehead and its fry ended up further down stream in a bigger pond somewhere.

Regards
jeff & Wan

Oh Cool!!!

Yeah i went to Ayutthaya last september to visit temples etc... i end up looking at a creek all day and next day i cancel the tour and i went back to the creek!!

They had heaps of snake heads!!!! oh i wish i had net at that time! and saw heaps of nice coloured fish... someone must;ve been breeding them there, coz where the fishes were was protected with the net!

I wish those were not outlawed in the states, id love to have a pair, in about a 200 gallon plus tank all set up to look just like that stream.

Wicked!!!

there an awsome lookin fish if only i had the space to keep 1

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