I just picked up a "pike cichlid" at a local lfs, and ID it to be crenicichla sedentaria, a belly crawler pike cichlid. If someone could give me a bit of Information on this little guy I'd really appreciate it!
Belly Crawler Max Size?
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Most likely sp. 'belly crawler', but if you did find sedentria let me know where you got it! I'd like to pick up a few myself.
Going to max out around 6", possibly slightly larger.
Going to max out around 6", possibly slightly larger.
Yes, it Was just sp. Belly crawler. It had similar features to sedentria, but wasn't. I actually had to be rid of the little guy a few months back, as he was getting picked on heavily by other fish for his small size :/
They definately get larger then 6 inch. My aqualog lists males as getting to 9 inches and females to about 7 inches. Here is a pic of mine after just over 1 yr. from being purchased at a tiny size. Measured at 7 3/4 inches total length.
It probably grew fast because it also got to eat a large number of convict fry....though a number of young cons actually managed to survive and grow up with him in the tank. But my tank leaked and the fish went temporarily into totes. One of the totes, that also had the pike amongst a number of fish went 'bad', so i lost him. Had I had him longer, it is quite conceivable he would have grown considerably larger.
It probably grew fast because it also got to eat a large number of convict fry....though a number of young cons actually managed to survive and grow up with him in the tank. But my tank leaked and the fish went temporarily into totes. One of the totes, that also had the pike amongst a number of fish went 'bad', so i lost him. Had I had him longer, it is quite conceivable he would have grown considerably larger.
Most fish will grow larger in captivity than in the wild, so it is most definitely possible. Thanks for providing hard evidence. Do you have any in shot tanks of the brute?
For the record, not too horribly impressed with the AquaLog. They have a few misidentifications in there, and wrong sizes. It does have a lot of pictures, and for the most part everything is correct though, so its still a good book to have.
For the record, not too horribly impressed with the AquaLog. They have a few misidentifications in there, and wrong sizes. It does have a lot of pictures, and for the most part everything is correct though, so its still a good book to have.
No in tank pictures; just one very low quality video ( video had too many bytes to upload on photobucket, so i found an alternate way of uploading it, resulting in very poor quality).
The belly crawler is at the start of the video; you can also see 6 week old convict fry not too far away from his mouth
This video is about 6 months before the out of tank picture beside the tape. He had the distictive double spot pattern and always had his belly on the bottom of the tank. Swam in a sort of a 'funny' way, but had a dart as fast as any pike.http://s192.photobucket.com/albums/z116/Bern-C/?action=view¤t=MVI_1982.mp4
Well, i suppose that is true, since probably 99.9 % of fish do not live to maturity in the wild.
Size of a fish in the wild really depends on where and how the fish is obtained. Let's take the jack dempesey for example. Average size for many collections is usually around 3-4". Of course if the fish was a sought after sport fish, much larger specimens would be taken on hook and line. If it was a real commercial fish for human consumption, much larger specimens would be caught by nets. So judging by the usual size obtained, the typical 8-9" aquarium specimen is huge in comparison to what is thought to exist in the wild. BUt in comparison to what COULD be caught on hook and line, especially in comparison to trophy world record specimens.....not to mention what is sometimes caught with nets for commercial fish food!!!