Feeding Habits, Length-Weight Relation, and Growth Pattern of Snakehead Fish (Channa striata) from The Rice Field of Jejangkit Muara Village, Barito Kuala Regency, South Kalimantan Province, Indonesia

Abstract—The research about “feeding habits, length-weight relationship and growth pattern of snakehead fish which caught in rice field JejangkitMuara, South Kalimantan” had been done during June-August 2018which divides into two parts: rice field JejangkitMuara village, Barito Kuala regency, South Kalimantan province for sampling, and identification at Fish Nutrition Laboratory, Aquaculture Department, Faculty of Fisheries and Marine, LambungMangkurat University, Banjarbaru. The aims of the research were to analyze feeding habits, relation between length-weight and growth pattern of snakehead fish (Channastriata) which caught in rice field JejangkitMuara village, Barito Kuala regency, South Kalimantan province. The results of the research showed that the length-weight relation with formula W = 0.8191 L ^0,7762with value of r = 0.321092 which mean that length-weight relationships indicated the pattern of negative allometric type of growth (b<3). Snakehead fish has the fish as their primary feeding habits.