Giant snakehead is a large freshwater fish. Harbors the same family It is larger than the size of a fully grown up to 1 m or 1.5 m, weight 20 kg, with a long round body shape. The body is brown-green. With black polka-dotted spread over the body. Inside the mouth with sharp teeth Being a small fish with body color is brown with black stripes, orange and yellow stripe along the body length of 2 strips of bright red tail. When growing up, colors and patterns will begin to fade, becoming greenish brown color similarity. Of mussel shell, represented by the color of the fish varies according to age. Chado is called differently according to age. When a fish is being called the "Chado" or "Agaipak" When fully developed, it will be called "Bumble Bee" by the color of its body. In addition to being the biggest fish in this family.
Behavioral Characteristics
Giant snakehead is very fierce The most prized Especially in the breeding season, the male fish eggs and care for their young children. To bite and hurt every animal that comes near the nest. Do not leave even the human So often there is Chado bite repeatedly attacked during the breeding season of Giant snakehead will be held in July - September. Wallow in mud nests are near the coast called "Chado wallow in mud."
Present in freshwater aquaculture in Thailand many. (Especially fresh water in Pennsylvania) was imprisoned waters and ecosystems destroyed much of the "Giant snakehead" The Giant snakehead fish is fierce. And will be fierce during the breeding and rearing their young, called litters Journal litters in each herd of not less than 100, and the parents who care Chado these feral litters. And take a bite wound everything he makes a lot of litters of more than 90% of the litters can survive and breed on. As a result, this species has increased dramatically over the years. And as a result, the ecology of freshwater fish in the water, the lack of balance that was released into the hundreds of thousands each year, and of monitoring fish populations and found that survival of 25%.
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The snakeheads are members of the freshwater perciform fish family Channidae, native to parts of Africa and Asia. These elongated, predatory fish