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[amiidae]

Originally Posted by ISZ

I used to own an albino channa straita but died after 4 years of keeping.Facial and body feature of my current albino channa is very different from the previous one.The head of a straita is normally flat and had a long body.For reference u can view at you tube for the albino channa straita and compare it with mine.In term of price there is a very big gap also.

I am not ruling out your opinion but I see that your specimen could just be a deformed or some called it short-body albino channa striata that we see fm time to time and they turned patchy or fully to its original color form when mature.

[irwini]

recently there is a species call "channa aka red fin".
couldn't find any article on net. does anyone know more on the newly discovered channa?

btw do u guys think that it looks abit like channa gachua??

Originally Posted by irwini

recently there is a species call "channa aka red fin".
couldn't find any article on net. does anyone know more on the newly discovered channa?

btw do u guys think that it looks abit like channa gachua??

This species is called fire and ice bro.Yes i agree it looks like a gachua.It belong to the dwarf family.

Can compare picture with anyone who keep the same fish

[bsplenden]

That is a short bodied albino Channa striata.

I used to have one like that a few years back.

Originally Posted by ISZ

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Can compare picture with anyone who keep the same fish

Am pretty certain what you have is a albino channa striata. The flat head structure will be more defined as it matures in the later stages.

[phineasborg]

hi Ben, still the same - no change already. I think growth has slowed down.
btw, for the past many months, i don't feed livefeed - just mp once every 2/3 days. Extremely smart fella.

Originally Posted by amiidae

Seems a little slow as compared to Eric's fish. Both of them are of the same length when came in right ?

pls post some shots. is it greenish or bluish now ?



Eric,
Any recent update of the fish ? what is the color morph now ?

[phineasborg]

Originally Posted by Fingerling

Am pretty certain what you have is a albino channa striata. The flat head structure will be more defined as it matures in the later stages.

many months back, the lfs atserangoon north (longhu) had quite a few pieces - all 10-12 inches.....selling at very high prices. $388 I think, or thereabouts. But most of us know that while the shop carries interesting specimens, the price is totally disinteresting. :P

[QUOTE=phineasborg;7687922]many months back, the lfs atserangoon north (longhu) had quite a few pieces - all 10-12 inches.....selling at very high prices. $388 I think, or thereabouts. But most of us know that while the shop carries interesting specimens, the price is totally disinteresting. :P

I strongly agree with u that the shop is selling its other fishes also at a very high price.Mine was bought there at the size of 3inch for $58.I bought it on impulse because i think that this kind of fish is nt easily available at the lfs.What is the normal market rate for the short body albino channa striata,any bro can help me?

Superficially looks like a stewarti variant, BTW where was this collected ?

Ben, I would rule out Channa sp 'Assam' as this fish has pelvic fins while the former does not.