Photo 9266099, (c) Dan Cawley, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Dan Cawley

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What

Obscure Snakehead (Parachanna obscura)

Observer

dan_cawley

Date

July 23, 2017 01:34 PM CEST

Description

My kids and I made a fish trap out of sticks and vines in the forest and placed it in the small creek behind our house. This was the second nights result! We were certainly excited that it worked! I don't klnow what the species is but it is about four inches long. Right now it's residing in a small tank on our kitchen table but I'm not really sure what to feed it. An identification would certainly help. I have previously seen Mastacembelus niger
in the same stream but this does not have the pointed nose of the other I saw and his coloration paterns are much more pronounced in this one.

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