Price of Toman Fish - Toman is the name of a type of wild fish from the snakehead fish tribe (Channidae). Having a body shape similar to the snakehead fish, the toman can grow to a length of more than a meter and become the largest species in its tribe.
Toman fish in English is known as red snakehead, redline snakehead refers to the color of its body when young, or Mabar snakehead. The name snakehead refers to the shape of its head which resembles the head of a snake. While the scientific name is Channa micropeltes.
- Toman Fish Shape
Fish with big heads and big mouths and sharp pointed teeth. The body is elliptical like a torpedo with a rounded tail.
Adult fish are bluish black, with a white or whitish belly. The cubs are reddish in color, with black and orange stripes on the sides. Toman fish can grow to close to 1.5 m in length.
- Habits and spread
Toman belongs to wild fish, namely predators that prey on various types of other fish, as well as other animals such as insects and frogs that are in their environment.
This fish has a habit of 'nurturing' its young. Parent fish are often caught swimming around groups of small toman chicks. It was also reported that this kind of mother also does not hesitate to attack people who swim too close, which is feared to disturb the young. This behavior of attacking intruders is used by the Banjar people in rural areas to lure the mother of toman and haruan (cork) using a grouse that is tied up as a "bully" so that the mother fish approaches and then feeds it with frog meat.
Toman fish are widespread in western Indonesia (Sumatra, Kalimantan and surrounding islands), Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, India, and possibly Myanmar. Its presence in southwest India (Tamilnadu and Kerala) feels odd, because it is separated by about 2500 km from the rest of its distribution area in Southeast Asia. This fish is thought to have been brought into India by humans before the 19th century.