crenicichla zebrina group??
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I have no experience with pike cichlids. The thread below may help until others with experience chime in.
https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/threads/zebrina-1st-day-behavior.735606/post-8328786
Hi Jib, long time no talk. I never kept Zebrina with other Zebrina but I have kept them with multiple other fish including other pike and IME they were very peaceful. I've also seen pics of groups of Zebrina and saw no torn fins or other damage. Mine was over 12 inches when I rehomed him and was still peaceful. You can see in the video he was safely comm'd with Geos, Pearsei, Endli Bichir and there was some Tocantin pikes as well and they all cohabitated peacefully for me.
Hey Jason,
Yeah its been quite a while, since i posted here anything, still in the hobby just not enough time.
Thank you very much for the input
Your welcome bro, it's nice seeing you post. And I feel you. I've been in the same boat but personally the stuff taking up my time was stressful, so I started making time here and with the hobby so I could decompress and reenergize for the other stuff.
Good luck with the Zebrinas, they are very beautiful fish. Here's a vid I found of some adults looking like they're getting along with each other. Though I wonder what has their attention that they're all focused on that side panel. I imagine the only thing that might be an issue is size as larger juvies might predate on their smaller tankmates.
ok i went ahead and picked 4 of them up, and put them in my pleco tank(240 gallon),the fish are 3".
they immediately went and secured hiding locations.
my pleco tank had nearly 150 rummy nose tetras, i wanted to see atleast something swimming in a big tank, as i rarely see any of the plecos that area there in the tank, so these rummy nose tetras were left to face their fate with the new pikes.
once the pikes coloured up,that is after nearly a week, i was enamoured of theem enough to get another 3 of them
they immediately went and secured hiding locations.
my pleco tank had nearly 150 rummy nose tetras, i wanted to see atleast something swimming in a big tank, as i rarely see any of the plecos that area there in the tank, so these rummy nose tetras were left to face their fate with the new pikes.
once the pikes coloured up,that is after nearly a week, i was enamoured of theem enough to get another 3 of them
koltsixx Post 3. Think I just said wow out loud, this fish is so beautiful to me.
Thanks, they're at least in my experience peaceful for Crenicihla. I never had any issues with aggression between it and it's tankmates and it had peaceful tankmates such as Geos and Severums. When I get more tanks setup I'd like to keep them again as well as some Crenicichla macrophtalma.
