Which Pikes Keep Their Juv. Coloration?

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I was asked this today so i thought i would inform everyone, this is just a few examples for Lugubris pikes btw...:P:

"I was wondering if there are any pike that keep thier juvenile markings (most important the vertical bars that some species have along their backs), and that are not dwarfs, or cost alot."

Marmorata and lenticulata are fairly similiar to their juv. coloration, and they keep the bars, they just get more color. They are more expensive thoug....Acutirostris is one that looks pretty similar as a juv. as it does as an adult....plus they have wicked bars!
 
from what ive seen of cincta, they dont look different
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I didn't list them all...;)...just some of them that stay similar. Cincta aren't for most hobbyists since they get so large and can be rather overly aggressive.
 
LOL yeah it is. Im usual on late night early morning so skim readin is what I usually do and the missing word really did throw me off.

it is pretty amazing that these fish been around for so long but not much is still known or documented that good. Pretty sure they have a few others out there but unless someone breeds em prices will be high.

So get to breeding PP LMAO
 
Trying, but all my pikes are still subadults...so it will be awhile. but i shall hopefully. determined am i. Pikes are just recently startin to get into the hobby. Before that, not many people kept them, let alone took pictures or documented them. So yeah, it makes a bit of a gap. Top that off wit the fact that Lugubris pikes go through color changes, and the collection location can affect colors as well, it makes it rather difficult to document them. Thats why i love them so much, cuz they are still being discovered! :D
 
do you have any orange? i had a piar of pranges once and i keep waiting for them to spawn and never got anything. they were like 6" and 7" what size is sexually mature? id like to know what i was doing wrong.
 
Nope they weren't sexually mature, maybe not even a pair. I used to have a pair of orange, aka xingu I, they went throught the matin ritual and everything, but never laid eggs. Sadness I say. Lugubris pikes are super hard to breed, hasn't really been done in the home aquarium with almost all the Lugubris species. You wanna breed pikes, get Saxatilis group pikes or dwarfs...;)
 
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