Female Convict Issues

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headcougar

Goby Wrangler
May 6, 2007
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I just returned from business and my wife has informed me my female convict has been AWOL for three days. I went hunting for her and she was inside of a cave and wouldn't come out. She is still alive but I was afraid she was lodged in the cave.

When I left she was swimming sideways around her normal cave and I thought she was trying to lure the male but yesterday she was in a totally different cave.

She has had four successful broods to this point and everyone else in the tank is fine.

Should I worry?
 
Why is this in the BW forum? If you're keeping her in BW, then that may be the problem.
 
You are killing me

Pufferpunk said:
Why is this in the BW forum? If you're keeping her in BW, then that may be the problem.
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Some people on here are genuinely helpful and others just aren't.

Please direct me to the Convict forum and I will post there. As I do keep convicts, gobies, needlenose, and etc in what I would consider a mild brackish tank. They have survived for almost a year so they must not be completely adverse to a little salt.
 
She has come out of hiding and seems taken to the usual brood guard behavior.

The length of time spent laying eggs is what alarmed me.
 
"Surviving" for a year is nothong in the span of the life of some of these fish, which can live into their teens. You were told before about the different kinds of fish you are keeping together aren't compatable with their surroundings. Your fish, your tank but don't come on here asking what's wrong then, cause everyone's gonna tell you the same thing.
 
headcougar said:
Some people on here are genuinely helpful and others just aren't.

Please direct me to the Convict forum and I will post there. As I do keep convicts, gobies, needlenose, and etc in what I would consider a mild brackish tank. They have survived for almost a year so they must not be completely adverse to a little salt.
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You don't "consider" a tank brackish because of the fish in it, you "consider" it brackish based on the salinity.
 
Well thank you for you responses.

I did noticed not a single comment about the behavior but I don't want this become back and worth deal.

I glean from others experiences here and learn of the changes I need to make for a healthy tank.

Have a nice weekend.
 
I think what all of us are trying to tell you is that since the fish is conditions unsuitable for it, there is really no way we can tell what's going on with your fish. Now if it was in FW, I'd start asking totally different questions. I do believe I asked you what SG your tank was at.
 
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