The ring tail is the sax. http://filaman.ifm-geomar.de/Countr...Venezuela&Genus=Crenicichla&Species=saxatilis
Crenicichla saxtilis
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Thats the crappiest pictures of a saxatilis i've ever seen...looks more like a belly crawler...lol...maybe it IS a belly crawler
Great fish. I have a female with a big cloud of fry around her. Not sure exactly what saxatalis they are. Will get some pics uplater to get someone a bit more familiar with pike to ID them for me.
Here is her batch of eggs -
Have seperated half the fry into a fry tank and left the other half with her, see who is the better mother!?
In all honesty it's just too hard to feed the fry in a 300gal.
Alex
Here is her batch of eggs -
Have seperated half the fry into a fry tank and left the other half with her, see who is the better mother!?
In all honesty it's just too hard to feed the fry in a 300gal.Alex
Side pictures of your Saxatilis would help ID it...can't really id it from that front picture. Watch the babies though.....cannibalism is VERY common....so sort them by size...
That was obviously not pic to ID it by. Will get a side profile shot in due time.
I actually have 3 adult breeding pairs and a pair that has just laid for the first time. I have read alot of reports about cannibalism. I have not found this to be the case, if fed well and often they will generally leave each other alone. It is only at about the 4 week mark that i take out the largest 5%. Leaving the rest in together.
Alex
I actually have 3 adult breeding pairs and a pair that has just laid for the first time. I have read alot of reports about cannibalism. I have not found this to be the case, if fed well and often they will generally leave each other alone. It is only at about the 4 week mark that i take out the largest 5%. Leaving the rest in together.
Alex
Not your fault, but that picture is of the pike which goes by the common name "belly crawler". The fish in the picture is a male. If you enlarge the pic, you can see that it is absolutely covered w/ the pike "scrunge". That stuff is brutal. It initally looks like ich, but is more malignant. It covers the fish and becomes a stringy, matted mess. I lost some lenticulata, and more recently, a cobra to that stuff.pitbull said:
I didn't even really look at the pic. I was looking more at the text. This pic looks just like the one that I had http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/5491/saxatilispage.html I was looking more for ring tail being a common name for a sax. I bought him from the LFS as a Spangled Pike. Great fish. I lost him to furunculosis. I bought some feeder goldfish, and even quarantined them for 3-4 weeks. Goldfish are some nasty little creatures.
