Worst Fears Come True.....

[pytonson]

http://www.tangledupincichlids.com/stock.html


Crenicichla sp. ‘Brazil redfin’ 8-9” 125.00 beautiful strigata-like pike with blood red fins

sp. ‘Red Atabapo’ 6-6.5” 125.00 extremely rare to collect/import! True blood red Venezuelan pike

7-7.5” 150.00 largest size rec’d – most red seen in these… wait till these mature!!

 

[Taz2478]

:WTF:

 

[Horiyoshi III]

UMMMMMMMMMM i think he means go buy some new ones and man up,is what hes sayin...........not too off topic,big loot for fish but i think worth it!! I mean come on they are Crenicichla and all.

 

[driftwood]

woke up to my male TR dead. didnt see any signs of breathing bad or anything.

I did find an old TFH mag that talked about diseases. Cryptobia, an internal parasite, that if the fish started to breath heavily then that was about it for it. Triggers are poor water quality, stress and handling. No real treatment is known but Metronidazole and other antibiotics are helpful in controlling outbreaks.

Im off to find another male...

I feed my pike Metro-bits every few months and so far i haven't had any problems. If any of you are looking for metro-bits you can order them from Rockymountaindiscus in bulk. The only reason I order from him is because i used to keep Discus and he has some really good meds. I like his metro which comes in bulk in the powder form.

 

[Peanut_Power]

Totally, that would be a very good idea to treat for internal parasites as not many sellers that collect there own pikes do so. Since hardly any of the Lugubris species are captive bred that means almost all of them imported have some chance of having internal parasites.