help w/ convicts

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you misunderstood what i said ILIVE...... I said you will spend more time and money over the 4 months of raising them then you would if you sold them to your LFS....And in a 29 there is no way you could keep all the fry and parents for that long.... Also as they grow they will eat each other so keeping them together for that long you would loose a majority of them. Ask anyone who has tried to raise cons for feeders and most will tell you its a dragging process that ends up a failure unless you are running 5 tanks for all the fry......It will take a convict 4 months to hit 2.5 inches so be ready for the long haul....
 
thats true, a 29 or 20 might seem like enuff room for 2 convicts, but if they breed and they will, you will be so overcrowded with fry, the parents wont know what to do cept hide. just be ready to have alternate tanks ready or a handful of friends to take some of the babies.
 
JACKOSCAR said:
you misunderstood what i said ILIVE...... I said you will spend more time and money over the 4 months of raising them then you would if you sold them to your LFS....And in a 29 there is no way you could keep all the fry and parents for that long.... Also as they grow they will eat each other so keeping them together for that long you would loose a majority of them. Ask anyone who has tried to raise cons for feeders and most will tell you its a dragging process that ends up a failure unless you are running 5 tanks for all the fry......It will take a convict 4 months to hit 2.5 inches so be ready for the long haul....
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I have a breeding pair of convicts in a 29G with babies with absolutely no problems.

Overall, if you want breeders for feeder fish, buy guppies or something. They breed faster, grow faster, and are MUCH cheaper. Plus, you can cram a lot more of them into a 29G.
 
iLIVE4ThIs0309 said:
i am raising them for feeders for my gt and 2 oscars...they're all about 4'' living in a 75 gallon....and i would have to disagree about them being more expensive to breed then buying them in the store...here in any store the cheapest ive seen them in a long time is $4 a piece..for any size..and they usually only have 1-2'' ones..but i got lucky and am getting an adult pair for $4 a piece
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4 dollars? thats a lot. i buy convicts to cycling my tanks. at the fish store i go to convicts are $.99 thats what the store is asking for them so the guy who bred them prob got 30 cents not worth it for sure.
 
I think you could get away with breeding convicts in a 29 gal. for a while if you get small ones. Cons can breed at like 2.5-3 inches and sometimes even smaller. So you don't have to get the biggest cons you can find. I have a pair that has had 4 clutches and they are only 3 inches long (female is smaller more like 2.5). If you think your tank is to small you could get a 40, and that would be more than enough for 2 cons.
 
JACKOSCAR said:
Just because you have no problems doesn't mean its alright. A 29 is a tiny ass tank and i think its just brutal to keep them in with fry in that size tank.
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I dunno. 2 convicts and fry, really isn't that tight. The parents don't leave the fry anyway. The fry are now starting to get too big, and I will be moving them out of the tank, to leave the pair by themselves. Ironically, I only put the convicts in there, to cycle the tank, and within 2 weeks, they had bred. Time to get something that eats fry.
 
softturtle said:
I think you could get away with breeding convicts in a 29 gal. for a while if you get small ones. Cons can breed at like 2.5-3 inches and sometimes even smaller. So you don't have to get the biggest cons you can find. I have a pair that has had 4 clutches and they are only 3 inches long (female is smaller more like 2.5). If you think your tank is to small you could get a 40, and that would be more than enough for 2 cons.
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Mine bred at a little under 2".
 
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