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Nice addition, what size tanks he/she going to go in eventually?
have you been through the pictures on " mostly cichlids" its a site divoted to Pike cichlids, and it is the site that I go to when I need an ID on pikes.
Certainly not a belly crawler or a sveni (check out old pictures of mine for C.saxatilis for pictures of my sveni before it was correctly ID'd) , i've had both and neither looks anything like that. C.sveni are members of the Saxatilis group and have characteristic white "spangles" all over the body which your fish doesnt have, bellycrawler are a very plain looking fish with no colour to the fins, they also have very poor swimming ability and stick to the substrate in an almost goby like fashion making short hops from spot to spot.
Judging by the body shape and long head i'd be more inclined to ID it as a juvinile of one of the Lugubris group of pikes that the Saxatilis or Reticulatus groups, unfortunately (or fortunately depending on how you look at it) these are the big boys of the pike world with all species growing to over a foot with ease.
With new wild caught pikes you pretty much need to feed them live fish to start with and then ween them onto river shrimp and then frozen, the good news is they dont need masses of food so you can feed them one good sized meal twice a week. The prey fish should be something around the same size as the pikes head, a young platy or similar would probably be about the right size.