new pikes after Uruguay
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I just picked some lents off spence before he left for the trip. I am having a hard time trying to get them to eat as they are so skittish. I have only seen one eat some mysis shrimp and the other two nothing. Let me know what works for you and what you are feeding them.
tman;2955893; said:
I had them eating gold fish the second day home, but, they are TERRIBLE hunters and the Oligosarchus that I brought home from Uruguay started out hunting the pikes! I have seen them eat a little bit of brine shrimp and Spence told me that he had the ones you got eating frozen krill. I am going to see him today and p/u some krill and see if I can jumpstart the eating! Good luck getting them eating. What kind of dithers are you using for them? I heard that the other trio he shipped before we left don't tolerate eachother at all!
All of the pikes I brought back from Uruguay - celos, missionaira, minuano - were eating bloodworms on day 1...and prepared foods (Kensfish flakes, NLS, etc.) within days. Mine also went crazy on torn up superworms.
From which river are the missionaira? Mine lurk and pounce on food!
I used buenos aires tetras as dithers...the bigger ones made it...the smaller ones were eaten. After quarantine, I dropped in a bunch of Archocentrus centrarchus grow-outs at about 3-4" and they all did great.
I kept 8 missionaira and minuano together in a 40g breeder. I think that they key is to have lots of PVC litter and other hiding spots....and feed well. The missionaira will hide in tubes not much bigger than they are (3/4" tube for a 5" fish).
From which river are the missionaira? Mine lurk and pounce on food!
I used buenos aires tetras as dithers...the bigger ones made it...the smaller ones were eaten. After quarantine, I dropped in a bunch of Archocentrus centrarchus grow-outs at about 3-4" and they all did great.
I kept 8 missionaira and minuano together in a 40g breeder. I think that they key is to have lots of PVC litter and other hiding spots....and feed well. The missionaira will hide in tubes not much bigger than they are (3/4" tube for a 5" fish).
dogofwar;2956258; said:
Thanks for the input Dogofwar, the Uruguayan pikes are all eating pellets already! Actually, they ate pellets from the start, just the Lents aren't that vigorous on the food yet. I can't remember which river they came from off the top of my head, I'll have to go back and do some checking on them
Thanks Gerry, I can't wait for you to come down and have a crack at em!
Ray
You got me on the lents, I was like WTF! That's the great thing about Uruguay Crenicichla, they eat pellets right away, all of them. Yep, leaving Nov 29th, still have spots left .Ken
No kidding! I was super confused about the lents at first. Way to pull a quick one on all of us.
Awesome shots as always Ray! Absolutely loving them! Bout time we managed to snag an awesome photographer that is also an avid Crenicichlaholic!
BTW...those lents wouldn't happen to be the Rio Negro ones that John currently has are they?
They look awefully familiar. Keep a hold on them, they do turn out to be absolutely awesome!
Awesome shots as always Ray! Absolutely loving them! Bout time we managed to snag an awesome photographer that is also an avid Crenicichlaholic!
BTW...those lents wouldn't happen to be the Rio Negro ones that John currently has are they?
They look awefully familiar. Keep a hold on them, they do turn out to be absolutely awesome! 