Crenicichla sp. 'atabapo fire'

Peanut_Power

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I can't hold out any longer, I gotta share these awesome pikes with you guys. I've never kept any pikes like them before, they are truely unique. Their personalities are a little more bold, they are more inquisitive, and their colors just baffle me and put me in speakless wonder. I've never seen a pike with this type of color scheme, the red and black in the dorsal, anal, and caudual fin. The reds are so intense too, its like rocket red. No matter what I do I just can't capture its brightness with the camera. Sorry guys, wish you could just see them in person. Anywho, here are my babies...enjoy... :woot: Oh yeah, my Hoplarchus psittacus (True Parrot Cichlid) kept wantin to get in on the pictures, so I took a few of him.

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Mourinho18

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atabapo's huh. I should have guessed from your screenname. :D

How big are they by the way, forgot what ya told me. :)
 

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yeah, you gotta be a true pike-a-holic to competely appreciate the atabapos...;). They aren't exactly the easiest pike to get. Rapps hasn't seen them in several years to give yaz an idea...haha. They aren't full grown yet either, when they are, yeah, the lent. may not look so impressive....haha.
 

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They look like a pack of wolves (metaphorically). Are they?
 
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