As mentioned above, have you tried finely diced shrimp? My Lucius really likes live Ghost Shrimp and fresh market shrimp. Thankfully he eagerly eats pellets as his staple.
My very own Pike ID thread!
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I'm boosting this thread because it's been just over a year since I bought this pike. He's definitely a male, but I wanted to get confirmation on his ID now that he's grown and colored up. Are we still thinking Crenicichla saxatilis?
I love this guy. He holds his own with large geos, Atabapo severums, and my bully parrot cichlid, but he's always the first one to eat and always the first to greet me when I walk in the room. He doesn't seem that large to me, I guess because he's long and thin rather than bulky like my other SA cichlids, but he's probably about 8" total length now.
I love this guy. He holds his own with large geos, Atabapo severums, and my bully parrot cichlid, but he's always the first one to eat and always the first to greet me when I walk in the room. He doesn't seem that large to me, I guess because he's long and thin rather than bulky like my other SA cichlids, but he's probably about 8" total length now.
Nice to see a fellow geo keeper having success with pikes, hopefully I'll be getting one this spring.
It does still look more like saxatilis Ryan. Lepidota has more of a pencil mark suborbital mark, where as saxatilis has a more triangular suborbital. Plus the humeral blotch is more irregular and rimmed.
I'd go with a sax. female if you can find it.
I'd go with a sax. female if you can find it.
Thanks, Jeremy. They show up a couple times a year as "Jeweled Pikes" on supplier lists around here. I've had a few central Florida pet stores tell me they've seen them. The trick is finding a female. Are they identified by a white dorsal band, and if so, do they show it at a small size? Most of the pikes around here show up at 4" or so in stores.
Very nice looking pike! I think that some of the smaller pikes mix very well with geo's, as long as the geo's are too big to be eaten.
And he has some awesome spangling!
I am also leaning more towards saxatilis vs. lepidota, solely because of that humeral blotch. The lepidota I had had a very nicely defined, circular blotch, whereas yours is pretty irregularly shaped.
Regardless, a great pike. I'm sure you enjoy having him a lot!
And he has some awesome spangling!
I am also leaning more towards saxatilis vs. lepidota, solely because of that humeral blotch. The lepidota I had had a very nicely defined, circular blotch, whereas yours is pretty irregularly shaped.
Regardless, a great pike. I'm sure you enjoy having him a lot!
