question about convict pairing

[Oii]

if they were good parents, why would they create a disfunctional tank? isnt the mother supposed to take care of the babies and the father go patrol the tank? i know NOW that to **** with them is not a good idea, thanks for the very late input Oii

create a dysfunctional tank? Lol.. To answer your questions no.. no... and no.... IME with convicts they're both great parents at first but after a day or two the males take over and care for the fry. If there isn't anything else in the tank then what are they patrolling for. They didn't eat their eggs until the golly green genius decided to stick his arm in their tank and mess with everything did they? You are about the only predator they know. You're very welcome for the "very late input," maybe next time you'll actually read up on something before you buy it!

 

[ESOXLUCIOUSS]

Hi,
I had a small female convict with two large pearl gourami's in a four foot tank, my mate loved the pearls and always wanted to have a pair. So i went looking at his tanks for a swap, as he said he had two paired convicts, but they never spawned????.( might be a better chance in my tanks)
I looked at the tank and there were two large grumpy male convicts looking back at me.. I fell around the place laughing.:grinyes::grinyes::grinyes:. I swapped him the gouramis and took the males.
Immediately the two males courted the female, a few days later one male stood guard outside the cave and no sighn of other two, a week later the paired appeared with fry and the lone male always swam in front of the mass and the two parents at the rear. Convicts are great parents and its even better when u have a third babysitter...:headbang2:

#Just leave them alone....my two cents#

Regards,
Denis

 

[Plecosterone]

You should put rocks in the tank. Cons love caves and will dig under the rocks. I find the best way to set the rocks up is to have them stacked almost all the way to the top of the water with lots of caves. This allows any smaller less aggressive fish to have a retreat from the bigger ones. They can also undermine the rocks to the point of them falling over and hitting the sides of the tank. To avoid this I usually put egg crate (flourescent light diffusers) in the tank first then the substrate and then the rocks. If the fish manage to dig out all of the substrate the egg crate still supports the rocks.

 

[Oii]

You should put rocks in the tank. Cons love caves and will dig under the rocks. I find the best way to set the rocks up is to have them stacked almost all the way to the top of the water with lots of caves. This allows any smaller less aggressive fish to have a retreat from the bigger ones. They can also undermine the rocks to the point of them falling over and hitting the sides of the tank. To avoid this I usually put egg crate (flourescent light diffusers) in the tank first then the substrate and then the rocks. If the fish manage to dig out all of the substrate the egg crate still supports the rocks.

africans do rocks.. All my americans breed on tera cotta pots.

 

[nimdabew]

there is a big rock formation in the tank. originally built for an oscar, it looks like this