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Jack Dempsey
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I am going to be adding a small group (6-8) of Green Cincta from Peru tomorrow. I am pretty excited, been a long time since I have kept Cincta. I think that these guys are going to be the pikes that swim with my Rays for the long run. Anyone have any thoughs on this?

Pics after they settle. :headbang2
 
Thanks! The tank that they are going into now is 72" x 40" x 20", I have the stand built for a 120" x 48" 600 gal tank, just trying to decide how to build it.

The other pikes I have are: 7- Atabapo II, 2-Celidochilus, 1-sp. Saxatillis (Uruguay), 6-Sveni, a pair of Minuano and 8-Belly Crawlers.
 
I like the list! And I'm assuming the Uruguayan pikes are going to have a boost in their numbers come November or December!!!
 
abarilot said:
I like the list! And I'm assuming the Uruguayan pikes are going to have a boost in their numbers come November or December!!!
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You bet they will!!! Will you be joining us? I do believe that you may have actually been involved in the collection of the Celidos and the Sax type. . . The only ones left from my 09 trip are the Minuano.
 
Good call on the cinctas ... I love their tail pattern. The blues would probably rate as my favorite of the larger pikes, but the greens are nice too and still easily within the top 5.
 
BigPic said:
You bet they will!!! Will you be joining us? I do believe that you may have actually been involved in the collection of the Celidos and the Sax type. . . The only ones left from my 09 trip are the Minuano.
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Oh I wish!!! The funds just are not adding up for a big trip this year :( I was on the trip last year with Ken and Chelsea and we caught sooooo many fish! Are you going on Ken's trip this year? But if I get the opportunity you bet I'll be there in a heart beat!
 
Oh I wish!!! The funds just are not adding up for a big trip this year :( I was on the trip last year with Ken and Chelsea and we caught sooooo many fish! Are you going on Ken's trip this year? But if I get the opportunity you bet I'll be there in a heart beat!
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Nope, I am supposed to be on a trip with another guy from Winnipeg, a Bermudian and maybe a few others, Felipe said he had a couple guys from California that could join us if we needed/wanted more people, I wondered if you were one of them. We are set to do an east coast swing, I haven't been there, so, excited to see a different part of the country.

On another note, I ended up with 12 of them, the "shop" wanted to thin the heard (was 40) so that they were easier to deal with there. I ended up taking some for a buddy of mine that is at ACA this weekend, he will get em when he comes back. They have a little Ich from the stress of transport, it seems most pikes get it when they are shipped from South America direct to Canada, it's a long haul. Since I helped land the fish and help out there a lot, I decided to take them before they were treated, I can deal with ich myself LOL I will wait a day or two before I take some pics, let them settle in, so, on the weekend I will probably show the new guys off.
 
BigPic said:
They have a little Ich from the stress of transport, it seems most pikes get it when they are shipped from South America direct to Canada
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I think I'd get ich too if I went from a jacuzzi to an igloo ... :screwy::grinno:
 
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