I have a reticulated ray and was wondering if a pike cichlid would be okay to mix with the ray? I haven't found any info online about that combination.
Pike Cichlid with a Ray?????
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rule of thumb is that if a ray can fit the fishes head in its mouth..the fish is dead..
but a retic? not really sure...
what are the sizes?
but a retic? not really sure...
what are the sizes?
Also what species of pike cichlid? I have a 7.5 in Crenicichla multuspinosa in my 240 w/ 2 baby motoros and pbass, etc. You might have to keep and eye on cichlids picking rays disks. It happened to mine, but it isn't an issue now.
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They are both pretty small. The ray's disc is about 5in. and the pike is somewhere between 4 and 6 inches. I am not at all worried about the ray killing or eating the pike, I am more worried about if the pike would attack the ray or not.
I am not sure exactly what type of pike it is, but I know it is pretty common. I had one of them that looked like it in the past. It is tanish brown and has some darker stripes and a thin red stripe lining it's fins.
I have Oscars currently in with the ray and I have read that they are a questionable tank mate for the ray. I was planning to move them to a different tank, but my open tank has a leak. So far they have done very well with each other. The Oscars have ignored the ray and they are larger than the pike I was thinking of getting. From my past experiences my pikes were always more aggressive than any oscars I kept.