This species of Snakehead was encountered in most of my field trips. In tomi habitat, 3 gachuas were found within a 10 square foot area and they co-exist with pugnax, tomi, wild guppy, loach, halfbeak. The Singapore habitat has more gachua in terms of square footage area. Difference is that there is less game in the water so the gachua basically preyed on the pugnax. In Singapore Part 4, John caught a huge gachua, in Singapore Part 5 in my blog, I found 4 gachuas within the same stream within a 15 feet span.
My first encounter on the gachua was my very first and longest field trip where I caught 2 juveniles with Betta Pi, off Trengganu. Only one survive today. I have since put all the 5 gachuas together to study them in greater details. The video was shot during one of its meal time, feeding on mealworms. They are good culling machine as they will eat anything it can put in its mouth. Surprisingly they are quite tolerant of other species like the 2 spot gourami and croaking gourami. Smaller ones end up you know where.
The species came from India and I believe they are introduced here through the hobby trade. One of the reason of keeping them is to let the pugnax population grow.
This guy have one pectoral fin.
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