IKAN GABUS

							                                      IKAN GABUS (Gabus Fish)



Fish are a lot of cork in the rivers in Palembang, in the 1980s it's easy fishing. often after coming home
from school with my friends SD bait fishing with earthworms. Who the hell is this gabus fish?

Gabus Fish is a kind of wild fish that live in freshwater. This fish is known by many names in different
regions: Aruan, haruan (Mly., Bjn), kocolan (Btw.), Bogo (Sd.), bayong, Bogo, licingan (Bms.), curses (Jw.),
and other -other. In English also known by various names such as Common snakehead, snakehead
murrel, chevron snakehead, striped snakehead and also Aruan. Scientific name is Channa striata (Bloch,
1793).

Ground fish (river fish), this entity is quite large, can grow to reach a length of 1 m. Somewhat flattened
like a big-headed snake's head (so called snakehead), with large scales on its head. Elongated round
body, such as guided missiles. Elongated dorsal fin and caudal fin rounded at the ends.

Side of the body from head to tail dark brown or greenish black. The down side of the body is white,
began his chin to the back. Side-streak streaky thick (striata, streaky-scratch) a little fuzzy. It is often
resemble the surrounding environment. Mouth large, with big teeth and sharp.




                                                  Gabus Fish

Gabus fish commonly found in lakes, swamps, rivers, and channels water to the rice fields. These fish
prey on various small fish, insects, and various other aquatic animals including tadpoles and frogs.

Often gabus fish carried by floods into the trenches around the house, or entering the maintenance of
fish ponds and become pests that prey on pet fish in there. If the rice field, pond or ditch dries up, these
fish will attempt to move to another place, or if compelled, will bury themselves in the mud until it was
re-watering.
Area Presence
Gabus fish spread from Pakistan to the west, southern Nepal, most regions in India, Bangladesh, Sri
Lanka, southern China, and most areas of Southeast Asia including Indonesia, the western part.

Type of gabus fish

Gabus and relatives including the Old World animal, ie, from Asia (genus Channa) and Africa (genus
Parachanna). Altogether there are approximately 30 species of the genus.
In Indonesia there are several species of Channa, who naturally all of them spread to the west of the
Wallace Line. But now the cork has been introduced into the eastern part as well.
One of the cork are close relatives toman fish (Channa micropeltes), the length of the body can exceed 1
m and weighing more than 5 kg.



Gabus fish for health

It is known that this fish is very rich in albumin, a type of protein is important. Albumin human body
needs every day, especially in the process of healing the wounds. Giving the fish meat protein extract
corks or has been employed to increase the level of albumin in the blood and help cure some diseases.



This is one fish that are often found in Palembang, if you come to visit, do not forget to enjoy gabus fish,
the fried and eaten with "sambal" already firmly. Ok

Source: http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikan_gabus