snakehead fish (photo predator can be seen below) has a greenish-brown with dark spots elongated body.In front of it is almost cylindrical, compressed only closer to the tail.The head is a bit like a snake, the same flattened and covered with large scales as serpentine plates.Some see it as a great similarity with the head of viper.In one of the images clearly visible teeth predator.Probably out of the mouth of this production will not be easy.In addition, the snakehead - fish with a special structure of the respiratory system.In addition to the gills, it still has nadzhabernye bodies that allow to breathe atmospheric air.
There just does not have nicknames snake-headed fish: green snakes, water, toothed, Dragon, eel, Frogbit and so on.It lives today, this predator in the lakes and rivers of the Khabarovsk Territory and Karakalpakstan, as well as in ponds, which stretch between the Tien Shan and the Caspian Sea.In general, it is considered the birthplace of India, as it is found in the waters of tropical Africa.
snakehead - a fish that likes to settle in the quiet waters, choosing zakoryazhennye or heavily overgrown with algae places.It is absolutely not afraid of the lack of oxygen, as it occasionally rises to the water surface and swallows air with a special champ.Snakehead fish easily survives even in drained ponds.She pulls out the sludge chamber, its lubricating mucus, and buries it in anticipation of next season.Hidden in the pits, this predator can ride out the cold, without water it is able to stay for 5 days.
snakehead - a fish that is easy to change a place of habitat.To do this, it is from one reservoir to the other creeps on the ground, and overcoming considerable distance.And local residents during these mass migrations catch crawling in the grass predators.Typically, such relocation is due to lack of food, because snakehead - fish, which is in the place of his habitation king and a god.She eats everything that comes in its way.It may be the tadpoles, fish, invertebrates, frogs, small rodents and even aquatic birds, which are tightened predator under water.Very voracious snakehead, they have well-developed jaws with multiple strong and sharp teeth.Any animals that gets into this fall, has virtually no chance of rescue.
Puberty this fish is when it reaches a length of 30 cm, and it happens not before the age of two.It spawns in the first two summer months when the water temperature rises to 21 ºC.Snakehead builds a nest of all kinds of aquatic plants, and it reaches a diameter of at least 1 meter.Females of these fish have a large performance.They are in one season can make about 5 nests, and each of them are between 25 to 35 thousand eggs.Within a few days the fry are emerging, and their parents carefully guard their offspring.
snakehead have no natural enemies in the area of its habitat.When he moved into new territory, with him unable to cope, no predatory fish.That is why the snake-headed fish poses a real threat to the rest of the underwater world.And, for example, in several states of America this predator is prohibited for import, it is not even allowed to keep in aquariums.In our country, it has not caused much damage.We snakehead - a beautiful object of hunting.Many anglers with great excitement and pleasure vyvazhivayut this river snake!
