My Lugubris family!

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Decker504

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Sorry about the hazy water. I just did a 50% water change and added Vita Chem about 10 minutes before I took the clip, but I couldn't help it because they were all hanging out relaxing even after I disturbed them!
 
Oddly appropriate music for some very nice monsters ...
 
Mostly krill, grass shrimp and very rarely pretreated guppies. Darth I just found the Fugue built into Youtubes options! Jweav, I will get another vid soon and hopefully the female Atabapo 1 will be healthy and colored up after my shipping nightmare, but male is doing much better as you can see!
 
14inches or so. That's one from my nightmare shipment story, but he is doing fine. The vendor offered to take him back, but I'm gonna keep him, I love him andx don't wanna stress him out further. I talked to MTN Pike a while back and she told me that pikes would do well all together. The atabapo male and one of the cinctas lip locked a bit Tuesday night to see who was boss, but it was brief and that was it. Now they hang out. It seems to me pike cichlids have their own languege, I kept a big proteous w/ my 3 juivie atabapo 2s for a while, she would MOUTH them to assert he dominance but never really Bite or attack.

From DJ/MC Decker
 
Are there any bonded pairs in that tank?
I live in Canada and my pikes come from MTN(USA) & OLIVER(CANADA)(they are together now which is great for both)

I HAD four Atabapo 1's and a bonded pair formed and I lost the other two...
I then put the bonded pair in a 220 gallon tank...
A week later I got three Red Johannas and all of these five fish are a foot long....

Well.......I put them in the same tank.....there were many large caves and at first it seemed to be O.K...
Then I got a beer and sat down to watch...
I was shocked!!! the pair of Atabapo's came at the Johannas and it started...

all these pikes fought as a team.....male on male, female on female, and the spare johanna just sat back, but it was intense!!!! I put my hand in to break it up but they just ignored me and went to the large cave to fight..
now I'm starting to panic....(on a side note, the colors of all the fish were intense)..
it was amazing how they fought with the males lip locked and a female attacking from the flank....
I have a stainless steel thin stick that I keep to get into areas that I can't get with my hand........
so the stick in the cave, the teams took up different sides of the tank and I added the egg crate permanent divider with extra large suction cups.....all is good now and the wounds have healed....
two very tough types of pikes...can't wait till my Lent's grow up......
 
I got the cinctas from MTN too, they are bonded and the lents too perhaps, but no breeding. Both pairs are inseparable. The lents team up and go back and forth w/ my big ornatum. The cinctas just sit back and relax most of the time, but 1 seems more dominant than the other. So far so good, but I plan On moving them to a bigger tank eventually. In my 230 I had 4 multispinosas and idk if its a lacustris group traight or what, but they never got along since day 1 and I might be down to just one. I mean they hated each other. I might have two, because the smallest one hides a lot. I kept 3 atabapo 1s w/ a big proteous w/ no real problem, but I took proteous out to let the smaller atabapo 2s be more comfortable. The only trou le I've had w/ big pikes is getting stuck w/ 2 females of the same species, now they will fight.
From DJ/MC Decker
 
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