Pike in a 230 with other fish

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wild bill

wild bill

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We are getting 3 pike cichlids will they be ok in our 230g sa tank. We have 2 8inch oscars 2 6inch festae 4 red spot severums 7 jd and 2 firemouthes in the tank will the pike hurt them or are pike a more peaceful cichlid I read they are only mildly aggressive.
 
They will typically eat anything that can fit in their mouth...and can range from mildly to highly aggressive, depending on particular species.
 
I had 4 crenicichla lenticular about 5 inch long! put them into a 160 gal tank with 4 texas cichlids wich was a male about 9 inch and 3 females around 5 inch!
The pikes was sound with the lights on! but when lights was turned off! they used to rush at the texas from under the big piece of bogwood! had to take pikes out the tank becouse they shredded the texas cichlids fins pritty bad!
 
My Saxatilis at 8" dominates my 11" Buttikoferi o.O

So, depending on the species and individual temperament of them, i'd say there is a pretty high risk of your severums getting owned
 
i must be the lucky one, ive had 4 different pikes and the only other fish they hated were other pikes. i had my sveni kill my punctata in about 3hrs and im surprised my larger bellycrawler didnt kill the other while they were housed together. for some reason my psittacus really hates my bellycrawler though and chases him under wood any time he tries to come out
 
The pike are around 10 inches as for kind I can't figure that out they are a browny color with white cheek patches do they feed at night or are they a daytime fish. They can't be any worse than our little rt's they killed a full grown peacock in minutes.
 
They could be a whole lot worse than RTs if theyre aggressive. Theyre 10"...they could destroy everything in your tank within hours if they wanted and at 10", Id be willing to bet they probably do so.

Why take the chance? Id think 17 fish in a 230 is more than enough for pleasurable viewing (probably overstocked by most standards), but to each his/her own.

heres a link to most species pics...

http://pikecichlid.com/photos.html
 
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