The true red variant of Crenicichla cincta is a seriously beautiful pike, the contrasts of the bands and red coloration is very breathtaking. There are some variants of lugubris pikes, rio madria or whateva, that is awesome lookin as well, but its not completely red.
Your best shot for gettin a pike that has the most red coloration for BOTH sexs would definately be your tapajos reds, red tapajos, tapajo I...whateva you wanna call them. Male and female BOTH show the bright red adult coloration, and its their ENTIRE body.
In sp. 'cobra' its only the female that shows the awesome full body adult coloration, males are considerably less showy, although they are still pretty attractive. It all depends on where they are collected from as well, as some cobras just never get as intense of a red coloration as other collected from different areas.
Atabapo pikes are still my fav, especially the true sp. 'atabapo fire'. They are harder to come by, and can be a pain in the butt to keep if your not careful. I've never lost pikes before, but I have lost BOTH sets of my Crenicichla sp. 'atabapo fire', so you gotta know what you are doing, and even then it can be difficult. I know they can be kept, you just gotta watch it, they are very sensative to water changes and ammonia and nitrites as well as nitrates. Touchy pikes..haha.
sp. lugubris cf. atabapo I haven't seen a full adult pictures of both sexs, but they are showing lots of potential. Not many people have them, especially as adults, so pictures are few and far between. Practically all atabapo species of pikes are gonna have some red in them, whether or not its in both male and female is unknown to me although I will find out some day...
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Your best bet for gettin pikes that show the most red coloration, and still lookin intense, would be Crenicichla sp. 'tapajos I'....just can't beat a male and female red pike...
Your best shot for gettin a pike that has the most red coloration for BOTH sexs would definately be your tapajos reds, red tapajos, tapajo I...whateva you wanna call them. Male and female BOTH show the bright red adult coloration, and its their ENTIRE body.
In sp. 'cobra' its only the female that shows the awesome full body adult coloration, males are considerably less showy, although they are still pretty attractive. It all depends on where they are collected from as well, as some cobras just never get as intense of a red coloration as other collected from different areas.
Atabapo pikes are still my fav, especially the true sp. 'atabapo fire'. They are harder to come by, and can be a pain in the butt to keep if your not careful. I've never lost pikes before, but I have lost BOTH sets of my Crenicichla sp. 'atabapo fire', so you gotta know what you are doing, and even then it can be difficult. I know they can be kept, you just gotta watch it, they are very sensative to water changes and ammonia and nitrites as well as nitrates. Touchy pikes..haha.
sp. lugubris cf. atabapo I haven't seen a full adult pictures of both sexs, but they are showing lots of potential. Not many people have them, especially as adults, so pictures are few and far between. Practically all atabapo species of pikes are gonna have some red in them, whether or not its in both male and female is unknown to me although I will find out some day...
. Your best bet for gettin pikes that show the most red coloration, and still lookin intense, would be Crenicichla sp. 'tapajos I'....just can't beat a male and female red pike...
. Just wondering if this is normal behavior for pike cichlid?
