The Pike cichlid is a preditory fish from South America. The powerfully built, torpedo-shaped body is blue-grey in colour with a speckling of silver-white spots on the top.
Orange Pike Cichlids are omnivorous and will eat most prepared flake food and Cichlid pellets as well as frozen or freeze-dried foods, including bloodworms, tubifex, and ocean plankton.
Striped Pike Cichlid (Crenicichla strigata)
Photo of: Striped Pike Cichlid (Crenicichla strigata)
Scientific Name(s): Crenicichla strigata ...
Pike Cichlids are well-represented in South America with an excess of 50 species. Thesetorpedo-shaped fish are well-known to the hobby. Although they bear little relation, Pike Cichlids are named after thePike, Esox , of colder bodies of water.
A pike cichlid (Crenicichla sp.) specimen. The specimen was released immediately after taking the picture.
An earth eater (Geophagus sp.) specimen. The specimen was released immediately after taking the picture.
INTRODUCTION TO PIKE CICHLIDS by Vinny Kutty
Summary: "Pike cichlids of the genus Crenicichla make very interesting and challenging aquarium residents." The species. How to house, feed and breed them.
As with most larger pike cichlids, they are very aggressive. And they have a large appetite. They will eat anything that will fit into their mouths.
00 a piece for TO> "large pike cichlids" ... I DIDN'T EVEN GET WHAT I PAID FOR TO> THEM ORIGINALLY! Bit of a shocker alright Todd. I've never owned a pet shop. I have owned a plant store and it's not dissimilar in the problems - i.e.
There are in a 75 gallon tank with a 14" ghost knife, a eel, a large pleco, 4 kuhli loaches and just recently 3 pike cichlids. Before I bought the pleco I had a tiger shovelnose catfish and in one night they destroyed him.
I have a 200 L corner tank which is slightly overstocked with two 10 cm silver dollars, a 13 cm pleco, an 8 cm killifish, two orange pike cichlids (8 and 13 cm) and two armatus, 15 and 30 cm.
Such efforts were forgotten when, after about half an hour of catching mainly small tetras and the occasional pike cichlids, we hit upon the motherlode.
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