how en what to feed my baby pike

[flemming]

hi guys,
last thursday I caught a 5inch pike,he looks great in my tank.
but he is really shy,every day I catch some babyfish and trow them in my tank for food(because he doesn't eat dead food,pellets,shrimp or anything that does not move).
but the problem is,al the babyfish are eaten by my pleuro snakheads.
even when the fish are swimming on a 3inch distance to the pike,he stil does not eat them?
i'f havent seen the pike eat a fish since i got him.
how en what do you guys feed your pike?

 

[malfunkshun]

Try keeping the pike in a separate tank. They resemble gar in many ways. Ambush predator that is easily stressed at small sizes.
How do you plan to keep it later on? It puts on a lot of size in a short time and will eventually make a snack out of the snakeheads if the snakeheads don't make a snack out of him now.

Just keep him in a well planted tank with lots of floating plants. Hornworth and duckweed is the best. Keep feeders with him all the time at that size. Try to feed him dead food, the sooner you start the easier it will be.
100-200L tank is enough to start with and keep it alone, with feeders as an exception.

 

[fisher12889]

Pike like cooler water...you may be stressing out the pike by keeping it in the warmer water that the snakeheads like. What's the temperature at?

 

[flemming]

22degrees celcius,i don't have another tank so it stays with the SH"s,I wanna have the pike til its about 12-15inches long,then i wil put hem back in the pond.
al the feedersfish I throw in my tank die within 50-60sec because they stress out,and breathe really heavy.
the chance is really small one survives for 1hour,so the live feeder option wil not work.
the pike is hiding in the valisneria gigantea most of the time,hiding from the snakeheads.
when i put another pike in the tank,from the same size,the snakeheads would bully both,isn't that an option?

 

[malfunkshun]

Try to separate the pike from the snakeheads. Fast. Another pike in there would do no difference at all.
The pike will starve to death because of the snakeheads. Pike is not as voracious as the snakeheas when feeding. They like to stalk their pray slowly or just ambush. Snakeheads just go in for the kill and take big chunks out of things really fast.

Get another tank for the pike or put it in the pond now. You have no real alternatives here.
And pike can handle pretty warm water. 22 is not a problem. If well oxygenated up to 30 is no big problem either. They just grow faster.

 

[fatherof5]

 

[Fishguy17]

If you have a birdbath, you could get any kind of larvae like bloodworms or mosquito larvae that you see, I have a 1in grass pickerel and he goes crazy for them!