Sorry for my inactivity for the past few months, Ive been mad busy with moving, career change, working to pay bills, relationship salvage and repair, and getting sober. Thanks to all you guys for PMing me to make sure I was cool. That means alot to me. Im finally gettin caught up with my bills enough to have internet again, so now I can get back in the game again finally. so here goes.... This my crenicichla story....
1) my name is ROB (really Robin)
2) Ive been in the hobby for almost 2 years now.
3) Pikes were the main reason for gettin back in the hobby again after 25 years. I had one as a kid with a bunch of other cichlids in a 40g and always knew that if I ever kept fish again pikes would be the first that I would be on the hunt for.
4) In the past 2 years Ive had 7 svenis, 2 Bellycrawlers, 3 johannas, 1 venezuela, 2 xinguIs, 1 strigatta, and my prized lenticulata lady.
5) right now I have my lentic, 1 sveni and 1 bcrawler.
6) all my pikes are eating pellets every other day and the occasional feeder once a month or so.
7) all my pikes seem to color up nicely when they reach adulthood.
8) all but my lentic were bought as juvies and raised to adulthood
9) my fav. pike as of now is Lenticulata, although mine is a murderous ***** that likes to kill the occasional tankmate.
10) My lentic is 14'' in a 150g with 2 monos, 10 & 12'', a female festae, 6'', a 7'' carpinte, and a 9'' royal pleco. Oh yeah, my 6'' bcrawler is in there but lives in a lentic proof hollow log so I rarely see her.
My male sveni is 6'' in a 60g and is the last of 5 juvies that I bought in an effort to establish a pair.