Cool convicts inherited need help!!

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ChrisH

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Nov 21, 2007
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Hi i got these convicts off my friend they were in a batch of babies. they are very different from any convicts i have they are in with my other female convict who i had for four years. they differ greatly. They have red in all their fins and one has a jack dempsey type nose while one has a firemouth nose and shape i asked him what other fish were the parents in with he said at different points the parents were in with jack dempsey and firemouths i do not even know if they are hybrids but they are deffinitely different and the biggest of the two eats alot!!. In these pictures you can see the bright colors in their fins and some red, look for the different shaped bodies and faces. Help me find what they are please aha. I don't see any speckles yet or fleks of shiny spots. also the smaller one's gill plate bottoms are dark blue and when he flares them they are blue too.:WHOA:

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I have no idea but those are just too adorable with shining colors on their fin.
 
I believe they are firemouths. A customer at work dropped some off that looked like those. He said they were convict firemouth babies,lol

Not sure if the person knew what they were talking about or not, but they said they only had two fish in their tank. A convict and a firemouth,lol.
 
Turns out they are hybrids. i have 7 or so im trying to figure out which one to keep its hard one i want has the deformed kinda different shape i like and he eats more then i do. One is really athletic looking and dark and one of the smaller ones has crazy spots that i like alot and one younger female is almost fully yellow and orange with her orange patch it goes to the end of her tail. Hard to say. what do you think.
 
Two of these smaller hybrids had eggs they were pretecting but i figured they wouldnt hatch... They hatch there is only probably 30-40 little wiggler fry in the tank in the corner they had them now is this possible and if so what will be the outcome.
 
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