i dont have substrate should i get some and i check everywhere and can not find them at all and there are no other fish in the tank
i got wigglers!!!
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My cons are great parents. She picks them up in her mouth to move them kinda like crocodiles do. They are better off with the parents. Mine laid in a pot and while the female was taking care of the eggs the male dug a big pit. As soon as they became wrigglers the parent moved them into the pit.
i have pot no pit i transfered mom because was told to do so be someone i know and there was another con in that tank so i dont know which ones which will it matter for the next spawn
Let's start from the beginninig. What size tank were they in, and with what? What did you move them into, and who did you move? What filtration is in the breeding tank? Do you have a heater, what is the temp? Is the breeding tank a bare tank, with a pot?
its a 10 gal. with two ten gal. filters on it. its bare but pot and ceramic cave like thing with 3 holes in it and a cut out front. there still in there but i had taken the momma out.
The parents won't eat the fry, they will protect them. Removing the parents will only make them spawn again sooner. A 10 gallon is a little small for a breeding pair of convicts, but not for the fry, at the moment. They will grow slower in a small tank though. at this stage, they can hide just about anywhere. I am missing the dozen fry that I left with the parents. I haven't seen them in a couple of hours, but they are still there somewhere.
my gt f did that with here fry putting them in her mouth its normal for them i thought they were eating them as well but that is how she kept them together also i heard they do keep there young clean by doing this as well
there not in her mouth and yea im getting a 20 sometime if i could put my pirana somewhere i would put the cons in the tank the pirana is in now but sacrafices.
Yup Cons are great parents I have a pair in my Oscar tank and then hold back the Oscars with ease they actually just moved a new batch of wrigglers to a pit from the cave today.
Like stated the mother will often round up stray fry in her mouth to keep them in a tight pack nothing to be worried about, . Next time just get some foam/sponge and cut it to fit the filter intakes, this will stop the fry from getting sucked up, leave the parents with the fry and enjoy the show, the mother will tend to the fry and the father will roam the tank to keep out intruders. Once the fry start to free swim you can feed them crushed flake or pellets if you want but they will also eat anything the parents do not and graze on any algae they find in the tank so you can get away with not feeding the fry for some time.
A 10gal will get pretty cramped for a pair of cons but if they are small you can get away with it for awhile just watch the aggression, males tend to grow quicker since the females are constantly laing eggs and caring for the young, so he may start to cull the fry and beat on the female if he feels he is short on space.
Congrats on your first of many spawns, they breed like rabbits and the bigger they get the more fry they produce.
Like stated the mother will often round up stray fry in her mouth to keep them in a tight pack nothing to be worried about, . Next time just get some foam/sponge and cut it to fit the filter intakes, this will stop the fry from getting sucked up, leave the parents with the fry and enjoy the show, the mother will tend to the fry and the father will roam the tank to keep out intruders. Once the fry start to free swim you can feed them crushed flake or pellets if you want but they will also eat anything the parents do not and graze on any algae they find in the tank so you can get away with not feeding the fry for some time.
A 10gal will get pretty cramped for a pair of cons but if they are small you can get away with it for awhile just watch the aggression, males tend to grow quicker since the females are constantly laing eggs and caring for the young, so he may start to cull the fry and beat on the female if he feels he is short on space.
Congrats on your first of many spawns, they breed like rabbits and the bigger they get the more fry they produce.
