Help!! Convict had babies
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Looking closer at your pics, they look to be in wiggler stage. That's about 3 days that they feed off of a egg sac as they learn to swim etc. Then you need to start feeding. If they hatched today that gives till Monday, then you will need to start feeding them.
Ok, so when I get back Sunday, I’ll check if they are still alive, and if they are I’ll move them to a breeeder box and start feeding them, thanks
Also it’s a yellow convict I think, and a normal black convict, would it be either mixed colors or just a normal convict?
To me he just looks like a stressed out normal male. With his stress bar so bright and the rest dim. Like he was just added to the tank.
Yeah but he’s yellow, I also think that was when I was adjusting something in the tank
These are what is commonly called Yellow Convicts "Amatitlania Nanolutae"
What you have in your picture is a stressed standard male. One give away is the lack of blue rings around the eyes.
Even if it was a Nanolutae, they would be hybrids, about a third would look like mom, another third like dad, rest would be mixes of the two.
The amount of color difference fish can do is quit shocking, from stressed to breeding to standard can all be vastly different.
Here as an example a standard female Jack Dempsey
Here stressed just added to the tank
And here in full breeding colors
What you have in your picture is a stressed standard male. One give away is the lack of blue rings around the eyes.
Even if it was a Nanolutae, they would be hybrids, about a third would look like mom, another third like dad, rest would be mixes of the two.
The amount of color difference fish can do is quit shocking, from stressed to breeding to standard can all be vastly different.
Here as an example a standard female Jack Dempsey
Here stressed just added to the tank
And here in full breeding colors
I’ve had him for 2 months and he’s been that color the whole time, the fish store I got him from had some questionable fish hybrids that I had no idea and even people on here had no idea. So I don’t know if he is some kind of hybrid or what. He has the same personality as the yellow convicts, he is a lot more shy.
If the store that ordered the fish in or took it in on trade or surrender can't tell you for sure what it is we can't. That's why most Amphilophus are called Midevile's. Cause typically they are crosses of Midas and Red Devils and not pure breed.
It could be another Amatitlania for all we know, Kana from what I have gathered typically stay lighter like that.
It could be another Amatitlania for all we know, Kana from what I have gathered typically stay lighter like that.
