Wild Snakehead And Fry

block2 · 01-28-2010, 08:22 AM

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

littletankbigworld · 01-30-2010, 11:32 AM

Those pictures are really cool! Thanks for sharing!

BadRedTerror · 01-31-2010, 10:08 PM

Man! Those are really sweet pics of that snakehead and her fry.From what i understand , is that the snakehead can actually crawl out of water and can survive for a short period of time on land.

exhumed07 · 03-10-2010, 10:38 PM

KILL IT AND KILL ALL U SEE!!!!!!!!!!! Those fish are destroying our waters. they will attack nearly anything that moves and will eat and eat and eat. they should be exterminated whenever seen.

01-28-2010, 08:22 AM	#1
block2 Teenie Weenie Fish Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 16	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

01-30-2010, 11:32 AM	#2
littletankbigworld Large Fish Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 682	Those pictures are really cool! Thanks for sharing! __________________ 29 gallon tank-2 orange Mickey Mouse platies, 2 white Mickey Mouse platies, 2 dalmatian mollies, 3 bleeding heart tetras, 2 serpae (blood) tetras, 1 peppered corydora catfish, 1 upside down catfish, 4 otocinclus catfish -hornwort plants, sword plant 5 gallon tank-molly fry, platy fry -hornwort plants 1.5 gallon hospital tank-empty Updated: 1/20/10 R.I.P. Mimzy 9/20/09 R.I.P. Oreo 9/22/09

01-31-2010, 10:08 PM	#3
BadRedTerror Teenie Weenie Fish Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Richmond,Va Posts: 55	Man! Those are really sweet pics of that snakehead and her fry.From what i understand , is that the snakehead can actually crawl out of water and can survive for a short period of time on land. __________________ WHILE THE WICKED STAND CONFOUNDED CALL ME,WITH THY SAINTS SURROUNDED

03-10-2010, 10:38 PM	#4
exhumed07 Large Fish Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Illinois Posts: 700	KILL IT AND KILL ALL U SEE!!!!!!!!!!! Those fish are destroying our waters. they will attack nearly anything that moves and will eat and eat and eat. they should be exterminated whenever seen. __________________ 20 gallon 45 baby electric blue red shoulder peacocks 1 dojo loach 1 bushy nose pleco 30 gallon, going to be a species tank of brichardi 50 baby/juvie electric blue red shoulder peacocks 1 clown pleco 2 brichardi 55 gallon 1 tiger shovelnose/redtailed catfish hybrid 1 bushy nose pleco 5 elecrtic yellow labs 5 mainganos 1 venustus 5 yellow lab maingano hybrids 5 electric blue red shoulder peacocks 1 male 4 female