Please help me ID this pike cichlid.

[keegs]

Hi everyone.
Long time reader and brand new member to MFK.
Was wondering if I could bother the community to help me ID this girl.
Sold as “pike cichlid” from local fish store
She’s about 7-8” almost 2yrs old

Thanks

 

[kno4te]

mrrobxc Rocksor

 

[tlindsey]

Hi everyone.
Long time reader and brand new member to MFK.
Was wondering if I could bother the community to help me ID this girl.
Sold as “pike cichlid” from local fish store
She’s about 7-8” almost 2yrs old

Thanks

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Welcome aboard

 

[mrrobxc]

Hmmm. Difficult to tell. Does she ever get bars or other patterns when in stress mode? If so, do you have a pic? Given its complete lack of spangling, it’s definitely an inland species.

 

[duanes]

Looks like one of the saxatills variants to me, but since there are almost 150 species and variants of pike cichlids, and about half are hard to tell apart, its like a needle in a .......

 

[keegs]

Thanks for all the help and the welcome!

Hmmm. Difficult to tell. Does she ever get bars or other patterns when in stress mode? If so, do you have a pic? Given its complete lack of spangling, it’s definitely an inland species.

She does get barred and much darker in general, when stressed or hunting/excited.

Looks like one of the saxatills variants to me, but since there are almost 150 species and variants of pike cichlids, and about half are hard to tell apart, its like a needle in a .......

Always suspected she’s in the Saxatills bunch.


what size will she max out at would you guess?
Her growth has slowed down considerably over the last 6 months to a year. Maybe 8”?

 

[duanes]

Size depends on variant, mine were a Uruguayan cool water variant so maxed out around 10", I would imagine some of the more tropical location variants get much larger.
About half grown in this shot, I've seen much larger.

 

[keegs]

Thanks for the help everyone!

She seems close to the size of your in the picture may a little larger , looking forward to keeping her for may years to come I wouldn’t mind if she got to 10”

 

[keegs]

Old thread better pictures