African pike in community tank

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D.Wolf

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Hello guys&gals :)

I have a chance to get 3-4" african pike (H. odoe)..

Anyone had any negative experience with this fish in community tank?

Company would be spotted gar, clown knife fish, few bichirs (endli, ornate, senegal, lapradei), few ropefishes and fire eel (silver dollars probably will become gars or clows snack)..

Now it gets complicated - all fishes are peacefully swimming together (size varies from 18" endli to 5" clown knife) except for gar (4" ) who is in small 20g tank until he recovers and overgrows it..would be ok to add that small pike with him and grow them up together or is it better to grow them separately?
Is better to keep more pikes or single specimen in a tank? If there is only one, can it become aggressive to other tankmates?
What size is safe to add it (them) to community tank?

All fishes will end up in ~300g tank and clown will be given away when reaches ~24"..

What can go wrong with this selection of tankmates, any advice is more then welcome..dont wanna end up with disaster :)

Sorry for poor english and if questions were asked too many times (unfortunatelly im cut off from pc and all research is from phone)





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I had my odeo (12 -14 inches) with other fish no problem. Though when I added the female the male did kill all the clouded archers. He never touched any of the other fish though that were not at the surface with him. Now I am the process of moving and had to down size. I have my female in my planted community tank with tetras and etc. Not too many of them have gone missing so far. She is 12 inches
 
finally i took the risk and got 3 odoe pikes at 3".. They are all active, swimming around, but i have a prob with feeding..for two days they didnt eat a thing..tried frozen bloodworms, live bloodworms, frozen shrimp..seems they are not interested in sinking things, frozen or live,.. Any suggestion what would work? They bit floating pelet but spit it out..crickets would do since they float and alive?
 
D.Wolf said:
finally i took the risk and got 3 odoe pikes at 3".. They are all active, swimming around, but i have a prob with feeding..for two days they didnt eat a thing..tried frozen bloodworms, live bloodworms, frozen shrimp..seems they are not interested in sinking things, frozen or live,.. Any suggestion what would work? They bit floating pelet but spit it out..crickets would do since they float and alive?
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May need to settle in some more. Leave some floating plants for cover and lights off. What were they fed prior?


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i dont have any plants because silver dollars shred them into pieces..i have only spot light so whole tank is more or less dark..they were fed with live fishes, so converting may be quite hard..just dunno with what to start..
 
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