Cichlids Pike and Oscar's

[DanDanUK]

Could anyone please tell me if it's a good idea to add a Pike Cichlid (Crenicichla Lepidota) in with my Oscar's ???

[piranha45]

in a 100g or bigger tank, yeah.

[nvcdl]

I sued to have a pike cichlid in a tank with other big cichlids. it was pretty mellow - I think it would not bother an oscar if the tank was large enough .

[pitbull]

I had a ring tail pike (saxitillis) in a 125 with 2 Oscars, and didn't have any problems at all.

[CentralMayhem]

i have had big pikes with oscars before and they got along great. but i put the same big pikes in with more aggressive fish than the oscars and when they tried to scrap the pikes they all got taught a lesson. pikes are tough customers. especially the BIG BOYS...i had a strigata and a venezuela and they both got to be brutal with mean fish yet didnt bother stuff that didnt bother them

[MaJiKTeRRoR]

The pike I had a few years back was the same way. He minded his own business but didn't take crap from anyone.

[shekes]

Should be OK.
I keep a Cabeza Amarga (c. vittata?) with an Oscar and a Tilapia, a Semifasciata with Synspilums and another Semifasciata with assorted Africans and everything is fine.

[MaJiKTeRRoR]

Should be OK.
I keep a Cabeza Amarga (c. vittata?) with an Oscar and a Tilapia, a Semifasciata with Synspilums and another Semifasciata with assorted Africans and everything is fine.

What kind of Tilapia? Buttikoferi?

[starrfish71]

My experience also. Pike are smart, cool fish, they don't start fights, but they sure don't take any crap. I currently have a yellow pike. Not sure of the species.

[shekes]

What kind of Tilapia?

That's what I would like to know!

I bought it in a Chinese supermarket about a week ago. On the first day both the pike and the Oscar picked on it a bit but now they are all good friends.

About a month ago I bought six big eels in the same supermarket and I still don't know what species. They are sold by the pound and cost less than a dollar each so when I ask what kind, they keep answering "common eel". They are cool fish, between 1-2 feet, all six live happily in a 40g with no filtration or heating and eat whenever I feed them, be it daily or weekly. They come out of the water to get their food and climb out if I live the tank uncovered but don't crawl far.

[CentralMayhem]

hahahah, there are some cool ass fish in this world. you ever have any pics to share shekes

[stotty]

I have had pikes with oscars and jacks they give as good as they get but no real problems

[MaJiKTeRRoR]

is it pink!!!!

[rico488]

Central Mayhem had it pretty dead on in my experience. My Xingu I's didn't bother my Oscar but took my Red Devil to the house when it charged them.

[Ducati996]

What kind of Tilapia? Buttikoferi?

I had a beatiful redline Pike close to 12" and a butterkufi easyily the same size of bigger, and the butterkufi killed my treasured pike out of the blue one day...

The butterkufi was a psychopath that just killed whatever it could - nobody wanted him -I just pleaded with my LFS to take him and gave him $20....
The only thing that survived was the red tail cat, which luckily out grow the Kufi before he could kill the red tail....

beatiful fish the butterkufi, but I learned my lesson with that one...I always see them in seperation tanks -wonder why?

[DanDanUK]

this is a really old thread !

[Peanut_Power]

a bit...

[Filthy Sanchez]

The pike I had a few years back was the same way. He minded his own business but didn't take crap from anyone.

That's pretty much been my experiences with pikes as well.

[dovii88]

put a pike in if they are the only two fish, then go for it i had some guy come into my store to trade in a pike and a red devil they were both around 9-10 inches and they were in a 29 gallon tank.. hahahaha come on know....