How do you decorate a Pike tank?

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scarhbar

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Well, I love plants, so I have a lot of them! However, when this fish gets bigger I'm sure he might have a little fun pulling on them. Can someone describe a setup with some plants, in which a larger pike might like? Anyone have pictures of their planted pike tank? Also, what type of hard scape should I create for the fish?

FYI, my pike is an EXTREMELY friendly Cr. Marmorata from Mr. Jeff Rapps, so this could potentially become A 14" long fish (at the biggest I think), so I'm trying to design around him/her as it is the only fish in the tank (besides some dither rainbow fish), and I plan to keep it that way :)


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I have 4 12" lents, a 10" pleco, and a 14" achara catfish.

I have amazon swords all over my tank, and they are left alone for the most part. How I have avoided them being dug up and torn to pieces is by taking river rocks, and pinching the plants gently between 2-3 river rocks. I have flat stone for hardscape, to make caves, and I've placed a lot of the plants directly against the rocks to keep them out of the pike and catfish's path.

As long as you can place decent size river rocks around the bottom of the plants, the pike should leave them alone.

Good lu
 
TheSinisterSOB said:
I have 4 12" lents, a 10" pleco, and a 14" achara catfish.

I have amazon swords all over my tank, and they are left alone for the most part. How I have avoided them being dug up and torn to pieces is by taking river rocks, and pinching the plants gently between 2-3 river rocks. I have flat stone for hardscape, to make caves, and I've placed a lot of the plants directly against the rocks to keep them out of the pike and catfish's path.

As long as you can place decent size river rocks around the bottom of the plants, the pike should leave them alone.

Good lu
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I'm an intermediate pike keeper, so I'm no beginner, but I still have a lot to learn! But I thought Pikes left plants alone, because it had something to do with their jaw structure? Is that true??


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That could be one reason for it, but they will dig and that'll lead to floating plants...with the river rock, and placing the plants near the harder surface of your hardscape, it'll cut down on them digging near the plants.
 
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