Convict help PLEASE!!!

[nglstn]

Someone help, my convicts have gone made. I am new with this fish thing and am trying to breed convicts. I have a male and female, (at least one has and orange spot on its belly) anyways, how do I know if they like eachother. The male chases the female (both are about the same size) and earlier I saw the female shaking her body at the male, then he would come out and puff out his gills, which to my surprise were a dark blue. Does this mean they'll have babies? I don't have a clue what I am doing.

Lost with fish

 

[N8DOGG]

sounds like they are breeding, add a clay pot into the tank. Convicts are cave breeders also do water changes with cooler water, this has always works for me. Add a few clay pots if you can they will move the fry once they are wigglers and free swiming. What size is the tank? anything else in the tank?

 

[nglstn]

Thanks

Thank you for the advice, since they are only about 2.5 inches each, right now I have them in a 10 gallon, I had a Livingstonii in there, but I moved him out. How many fry can I expect, do a lot of them die?

 

[ChEeRs_BiG_EaRs]

they'll make for some nice tucker for an aro when they grow up

 

[N8DOGG]

Thank you for the advice, since they are only about 2.5 inches each, right now I have them in a 10 gallon, I had a Livingstonii in there, but I moved him out. How many fry can I expect, do a lot of them die?

You can expect a hundred babies, give or take. But they might eat a few batches of fry before they get it right....but once they do most if not all of the fry should live.