snakehead fish
By nawala
@nawala123 (20852)
Indonesia
July 30, 2020 12:23am CST
Snakehead fish are usually found in lakes, swamps, rivers, and water channels to the rice fields. This fish preys on a variety of small fish, insects, and various other aquatic animals including tadpoles and frogs.
Snakehead fish are often flooded into gutters around the house, or enter fish-raising ponds and become pests that prey on domestic fish there. If the rice fields, ponds or trenches dry out, the fish will try to move to another place, or if forced to, bury themselves in the mud until the place returns to water. Therefore, these fish are often found 'walking' on land, especially at night in the dry season, looking for other places that are still runny.
In Indonesia, we cook this this by frying it or other delicacy
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@Alexandoy (65308)
• Cainta, Philippines
30 Jul 20
We have that here. We call it mudfish. That was our usual meal when I was not schooling yet, that was the time we lived near a swampy area that are full of fish.
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@Alexandoy (65308)
• Cainta, Philippines
30 Jul 20
@nawala123 my eldest brother learned how to fish the mudfish, he was in 6th grade at that time and I was about 4 or 5. He uses bamboo sticks with barbed hook and worms as bait. The swamp is just knee-high so it is not dangerous.
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@jayanth_77 (7180)
• India
30 Jul 20
Looks like these snake head fish have lungs to breath like other land animals. Else it would have been impossible to survive outside water.
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@nawala123 (20852)
• Indonesia
30 Jul 20
@jayanth_77 so it is ready to take over our workd
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@jayanth_77 (7180)
• India
30 Jul 20
@nawala123 yes it's a fish but it also has lungs like secundary organs by which they can survive by breathing air directly when out of water or when there is less oxygen in the muddy water
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@LadyDuck (457967)
• Switzerland
30 Jul 20
@nawala123 The small catfish of our lakes are not at all soft.
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@nawala123 (20852)
• Indonesia
30 Jul 20
@LadyDuck this fish is carnivore and very active. Many anglers like fish it because of pf the strike sensation
@nawala123 (20852)
• Indonesia
30 Jul 20
No, very different. Catfish is too "soft"
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@amitkokiladitya (171936)
• Agra, India
30 Jul 20
@nawala123 yes ..and I'm super scared.
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@nawala123 (20852)
• Indonesia
30 Jul 20
@amitkokiladitya but it is yummy to eat
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@simplfred (20608)
• Philippines
30 Jul 20
Mudfish here... My father catch that kind of fish here during rainy seasob.
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@Butterfingers (66585)
• India
30 Jul 20
Hava it'll be a shock to see fish walking on land 
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@nawala123 (20852)
• Indonesia
30 Jul 20
mostly say ikan gabus, haruan, but sometimes we call it kuthuk or kotes in java
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@piyushbhatia1 (11698)
• India
30 Jul 20
In my country there are snake charmers. I wonder what they can do with it.
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@Young_boy (1055)
• Bekasi, Indonesia
30 Jul 20
I often ate this fish when I was child. at my place this fish is called "ikan gabus". Taste of this fish very unique and I really like it. but now I never find it again. now this fish is rarely found.
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