British pike

[Brock11]

well I'm guessing, like dive said, you mean a northern pike right? Unless the uk has a species I'm unaware of , they should be the same thing as we have here.
Like ALL esox species, smaller tank mates are a no go. Anything that pike THINKS it can fit into its mouth it will try. Also as Dive said these fish get pretty large, much to large for standard aquariums. I keep pickerel, the mini version of a pike, but I've never kept a true pike before...not yet anyhow.

Where can you get pickerel?

 

[esoxlucius]

Perch are my favourite coarse fish, very striking markings and colouration. I had a shoal of 6 individuals about 6 inch apiece in a 4 ft tank many many years ago. They were a joy, went absolutely mad for big fat garden worms and occasionally i'd put live minnows in from a local river. When they got to about 8-9 inch i let them go in the local lodge where i'd caught them in the first place. I was very tempted to get a small jack pike (the juveniles are referred to as jacks) but the speed at which they grow would have meant i would probably only had it for a short while before i'd have had to return it to the wild so i didn't bother. But if you wanted one for the long term then yes you're looking at a huge coldwater set up and i doubt you could put anything with it unless it's tank mates were sizeable. Pike have huge mouths. I was going to call myself perca fluviatilis on here, after the common european perch, but i thought esox lucius had a better ring to it. Ha.