Channa asiatica VF 20cm

Channa asiatica is relatively small snakehead. This species is very intolerant towards conspecifics (unless a couple is formed) and other fish. Requires a seasonal drop in watertemperature below tropical values Channa, commonly known as Snakeheads, are primitive predatory fish and members of the family Channidae. They are a group of perciform (perch-like) fishes whose affinities are unknown, although recent studies on the molecular phylogeny of bony fishes consider snakeheads as most closely related to the labyrinth fishes (anabantoids) and the synbranchiform eels, which include the spiny eels. The genus Channa contains 31 species that are native throughout Asia from are native from southeastern Iran and eastern Afghanistan eastward through Pakistan, India, southern Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Malaysia, Sumatra, Indonesia, Vietnam, Korea, and China northward into Siberia. 3 species of the closely related genera Parachanna are native to parts of Africa.