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Wow. What a nice pick-up. It that HITH?

I'd just keep with the good water quality and available food. It'll eat eventually.
 
That deep red eye is just amazing. Not uncommon for new pikes to hunger strike though. A little temp raise and patience usually works.
 
L.BelcherII;2138942; said:
Wow. What a nice pick-up. It that HITH?

I'd just keep with the good water quality and available food. It'll eat eventually.
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Whatever it is it's healed up. I've never had a fish with HITH on the side of its head but I've never had a pike either. It does have some craters on the sides of its face but hes all healed up so now I'm not worried. No craters on the top of his head though, maybe 2-3 on the sides which kind of sucks but theres nothing I can do now. When I got him he had some cloud eye but my clean water cleared it right up.

Thanks for the kind words everyone, this thing is a serious monster. I'm just glad hes not getting any bigger.
 
For now hes in a 55gallon which I do not like but theres nothing I can do about it. I'm just happy hes not in a 10-15gallon pet store tank. How do you guys feel about me throwing him in a 125 with 7x 5-7" big ca/sa cichlids (red devils, mayans, a pleco, and a hybrid.) I don't think they will pick on him but will he kill them?
 
dirtyblacksocks;2129879; said:
I wouldn't mess with the pH if he's been on tap water as is and isn't dead yet...just stress him more.
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Agreed, PH with pikes is a non issue unless you are trying to breed them. Then you would want a lower PH and softer water.
They also tend to go on food strike for a few days or so maybe longer when moved to a new environment, but they will evetually get hungry enough to eat given what they like or are used to. (in most cases)
Personally I would stay away from feeders unless he just won't eat for a extended period of time (2-3 weeks) I have a large 11" Johanna male who did the same thing.
I just would add a few pieces of krill, silversides or night crawlers in every other day and leave them for a couple of hours and leave the room. If they were there when I came back I removed them. After about 2 weeks they were disappearing when I came back. Now he eats them when thrown in.
 
thanks for the info shadow. The pH thing was first day, hes doing great now aside from eating which I expected anyways. I've been throwing shrimps in there with the lights off and leaving the fish room. He looks like hes going to pick at them most of the time but he never does. I'm going to keep trying shrimp and the feeders in there aren't going anywhere. I know feeders are bad but I've had most of them for over 2 months now so they're nice and quarantined, eating whatever I think is nutritious. I'm thinking tank size has a lot to do with it but I could be wrong. I've read garlic helps fish get used to new foods, I might look into that one more.
 
Which LFS did you get him at?
 
The problem with feeder isn't just that they could be bad, or lack nutrition. It can also cause them to stop eating other types of food and not eat frozens or prepared.
It isn't the tank size as the Johanna that I spoke of is temperarily housed in a 55 right now and has been there for a month waiting to ship to someone interested purchasing it and he started eating. Garlic is said to help entice them to eat working to stimulate appetite. Personally I never had any luck with it.
I think he is just being finicky right now, He will get hungry enough. I never had a pike not eat after starving a period of time with the exception of my Trombeta. And
she was starved to try and get her off of feeders for 21 days. It did not work for her, so after 21 days I went back to feeding quarantined and gut loaded feeders.
MAY SHE REST IN PEACE, STUBBORN SOB.
 
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