con breeding
- Thread starter pacuman91
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Oh, I wasn't flaming, I didn't mean it to come across that way. I was just giving other people's differing experiences. Sorry if it came across as flaming.
Speeding up the process of pairing up and breeding, it would help if you bought atleast 6 individuals and wait for 2 to pair up.
Well my personal experience with cons was this: Bought two from the same tank of pink and regular cons mixed together. Picked the female for her looks, the male we just asked for a healthy specimen. Popped them in a 15 gallon, the male chased the female around for 3 days or so before they made nice. By 5 days they were clearly a pair and had started to dig pits in the gravel and were pecking at rocks and the inside of the coffee mugs in there. About a week after meeting, they'd eaten a lot one day, the temperature was around 80 and just before I went to bed theyd laid eggs. It was 3 days, almost to the minute, when the eggs hatched in a 20 gallon tank theyd been moved to with the parents. They are currently herding and protecting them, I hope they dont eat them all, but wont be too dissapointed if they do as they are meant to be feeders anyhow 
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.they they have already paired and will stay together as if they are schooling and the male flares his gills or w/e at the female so im pretty sure that they have paired. they are in a 29 the tank has about 12 terra cotta pots ranging from 8" in diameter to 4" in diameter stacked on one another as caves for them to breed in. the tank its at 80*. is there anything else that i can do to help or speed the process up
my female pink convict is cleaning a flower pot as we speak. im getting videos to show all of you here.
Try turning up the temp to around 80 f and feed them very well. That's what I did, and I had a pair and eggs in a week.
