What happens is that cons are great parents. They lay the eggs, and 3 days later, they hatch. They are now in the wriggler stage. They stay like this for 3-5 days. After that, they start to swim freely. This is when you feed them crushed up flakes/baby brine shrimp etc.
Then what you do is use your syphon and syphon the babies into a bucket for transportation into a grow-out tank.
The female will now lay eggs again in roughly 5 days to 2 weeks. But in some cases, later.
Repeat the process for LOTS of babies.
OR what you can do is remove the eggs on the surface on which they are layed on (For example, a rock cave/driftwood/slate etc) and place them in the grow-out tank with a mature sponge filter. Adding an airstone is not nessacary.
The eggs will then hatch the way they would as mentioned earlier, and behave the same. But its more rewarding to leave the eggs with the parents.
There is only 1 species of convict. But there are 3 different types of colour variations. The barred variety (standard), pink (light pink to white all over), and marble. Which is a mix of pink and standard. These are relativy new to the hobby.
They all breed the same.
Then what you do is use your syphon and syphon the babies into a bucket for transportation into a grow-out tank.
The female will now lay eggs again in roughly 5 days to 2 weeks. But in some cases, later.
Repeat the process for LOTS of babies.
OR what you can do is remove the eggs on the surface on which they are layed on (For example, a rock cave/driftwood/slate etc) and place them in the grow-out tank with a mature sponge filter. Adding an airstone is not nessacary.
The eggs will then hatch the way they would as mentioned earlier, and behave the same. But its more rewarding to leave the eggs with the parents.
There is only 1 species of convict. But there are 3 different types of colour variations. The barred variety (standard), pink (light pink to white all over), and marble. Which is a mix of pink and standard. These are relativy new to the hobby.
They all breed the same.
