convict eggs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Thread starter carterhh
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nice. Yeah ill be honest..5 years ago i bought 2 convicts m/f. My johanni killed the original female, so i purchased another. I then got my hands on a new tank. My 2 cons mated, had eggs, and they hatched. That day i used the vacuum and sucked up all the baby fry, and the cons, and threw them in their own 40 gallon. Mom, Dad and about 100 fry. 6 years later, i still have about 3 dozen left. And they are so mutated from incest over and over and over again, that some have what looks like 2 mouths (1 mouth split down the middle) Some have tumors on their head, some dont even have eyes, just lumps on their face. I went from having so many nice convicts, to the family from the hills have eyes in my fish tank. NOW no one wants to take them from me lol.
Then in the last 2 months, acquired some oscars. i picked the 2 nicest looking cons i had and put them in with the oscars. They started beating up the oscars pretty bad , who were twice the size of the cons, and started attacking my red tail catfish. I pulled the male out, the next say the female started going after everything, i moved some rocks, and sure as ****, i had about 200 fry she was protecting. I yanked her out, and in 45 seconds, the oscars devoured all the fry.
Ive read that cons make GREAT feeder fish producers for carniverous fish like oscars and such, since they mate almost once aweek if you keep removing the fry.
Then in the last 2 months, acquired some oscars. i picked the 2 nicest looking cons i had and put them in with the oscars. They started beating up the oscars pretty bad , who were twice the size of the cons, and started attacking my red tail catfish. I pulled the male out, the next say the female started going after everything, i moved some rocks, and sure as ****, i had about 200 fry she was protecting. I yanked her out, and in 45 seconds, the oscars devoured all the fry.
Ive read that cons make GREAT feeder fish producers for carniverous fish like oscars and such, since they mate almost once aweek if you keep removing the fry.