Breeding Convicts

[Mystroe_TheMyst]

man cons kick ***' i once had a overstocked tank (was going for the old controled overcrowding method) bad idea had wrong fish in the wrong waters I think. First my male con eliminated the weakess con. then my jewels had a battle (red forest beat common) and then my male con knocked off my female con. After that things settled. Then male con kills Three spot Gourami x2. and then kills off the red forest jewel. I had a purple spotted gudgeon in there and that died cause it ate the bristlenose. so all that was left was a black widow tetra (still alive today, the lil battler) and a male con. Absolute carnage!

this was only in an 18gal where all the fish where no bigger than 2.5" But i got rid of the con after growing to 3"...he was a killing machine...I know better now..I lost so many fish to that male I named him the killing machine and took him to the LFS..he was gone 2days later....whoeva bought him I feel sry for.

*the killing machine*

NOTE: I have a bigger tank now and please do not have a go at me for overstocking...I was a newbie and I know better now...and could a few of you perhaps answer to my thread? (sry to ask)

 

[Lila]

I think you should have had Jaguar Cichlid on there. Ours is the meanest fish I've ever seen!

 

[optix]

Unless you are talking about a dovii or umbee you don't get much meaner than a managuense

 

[scott]

My festae would beg to differ.

 

[wynn]

I'm in the minority here I guess, but I think that some of the african mbuna, for their size, are the meanest cichlids. Have any of you every kept Kennyi or Chipokaes?

 

[gonefishin]

Dempsey will take to hiding and probably get in a tussle with one of the Africans, if they don't die from the stress of the wrong water parameters first. And the jewel cichlid is a killing waiting to happen.

so I agree with most of the things you said, but the africans were not specified, and some africans have the same requirements as SAs. And the jewel should be able to fend for itself, since the other large fish in there probably won't grow to thier max size if kept in that setup.

 

[cyberbeer65]

My Midas is a mean SOB,one day he decides to start trying to kill everything in my tank,so I have him in my 20 gal Q-tank untill a lfs here has enough room to take him in on trade.

 

[PinkBloodParrot]

In my experience and what I heard from anywhere, red devil is the most aggressive. So I voted red devil.

 

[xxnyjets83xx]

pink convicts

i have two pink convicts. one male and one female. i think that the female is pregnant, but how do you tell. what do i have to do if the female is pregnant. i have a 55g tank with 7 fish in it.

 

[Zeromason577]

Well, are they both hiding out in one cave?
Do you have slate style rocks for them to lay their eggs on?

Depening on what you want to do with the fry, here are a few choices.

1-let the parents breed in the tank, wait till the fry are free swiming, then let nature take its course(fry will most likely be eaten).
2- remove mating pair to new tank, let breed, then return back to tank when they are done raising the fry.
3- let breed in the large tank, remove fry when they are mature enough, put into fry tank or sell to LFS/feed to larger fish?

their are many other things that can be done with them, i just let the fry hatch in my convict tank, after they mature enough whatever is left of them i take out, let grow up some in my 10 gal and then send them to my LFS.