Male Blue Convict? PICS

[Mavrick813]

I was actually hoping that the Blue Male and Pink Female I have would give me a 59/59 chance of Pjnk or Blue Babies.... Your literature says that's not gonna happen.
My Blue Male is a lot more stunning so in order to get blue babies I suppose I should ditch the Pink Con and go get a batch of Blue convict / HRP and keel the one my boy pairs off with

 

[Frank Castle]

I was actually hoping that the Blue Male and Pink Female I have would give me a 59/59 chance of Pjnk or Blue Babies.... Your literature says that's not gonna happen.
My Blue Male is a lot more stunning so in order to get blue babies I suppose I should ditch the Pink Con and go get a batch of Blue convict / HRP and keel the one my boy pairs off with

I wouldn't "ditch" any of them, I would simply find a strikingly beautiful female Blue (I know them as "Black Convicts") for your Blue male and find either a Pink male or a Male with at least ONE Pink parent to breed to your Pink female.

Why not have the best of both worlds? Break it down more, go with 3 pairs and the last one pure-blood HRPs.

THEN, you can have fun pairing the unrelated babies for the next generation and not have to worry about inbreeding FTMP

At the rate Convicts breed, your "free-swimmers" could be producing Pink offspring by June....maybe even earliier

 

[Mavrick813]

That all sounds good in theory. But these fish are already seriously outnumbered in a very crowded 265g Oscar tank.

 

[Frank Castle]

That all sounds good in theory. But these fish are already seriously outnumbered in a very crowded 265g Oscar tank.

Bro, I got a pair of 2" Convicts in a 20Long filled with caves, gravel, a buncha fake plants and a sponge filter....convicts are the LEAST demanding fish I ever kept. Kittiee Katt said she had hers breed OUTSIDE in near FREEZING temperatures.

They're an incredibly resilient, undemanding species and among the nastiest attitude in the fish world, size-for-size

 

[Mavrick813]

I would agree about the cons, I had a 180g for 9 years with 4 Oscars, a breeding pair of Cons, 20 Giant Danios, and an assortment of Plecos.

The Cons had their cave and made babies.

The Os kept the Con Population around 7-10 free swimmers at any given time

 

[Frank Castle]

I would agree about the cons, I had a 180g for 9 years with 4 Oscars, a breeding pair of Cons, 20 Giant Danios, and an assortment of Plecos.

The Cons had their cave and made babies.

The Os kept the Con Population around 7-10 free swimmers at any given time

that's what I need to get, Giant Danios.....these Zebras bore the heck outta me. Sometimes PetSmart has them on sale for $1/ea.

 

[Mavrick813]

I get my Giants at The Hidden Reef when they do their 75% freshwater sale. $0.50 a piece...

 

[convict360]

nice convict, or HRP; whichever lol. Looks like a kind of parrot shape mouth there too, might be some ancestry in there...

 

[Frank Castle]

Bro, I got a pair of 2" Convicts in a 20Long filled with caves, gravel, a buncha fake plants and a sponge filter....convicts are the LEAST demanding fish I ever kept. Kittiee Katt said she had hers breed OUTSIDE in near FREEZING temperatures.

They're an incredibly resilient, undemanding species and among the nastiest attitude in the fish world, size-for-size

Kittiee Katt - please tell me you didn't just NOW get this alert for the 1st time....This has gotta be 2 weeks old

It matters....I have been talking with member and staff alike about technical and diagnostic issues we may be having lately. You experience some yourself?

 

[Kittiee Katt]

Kittiee Katt - please tell me you didn't just NOW get this alert for the 1st time....This has gotta be 2 weeks old

I technically didn't get an alert at all for the first one, I was reading another thread and you linked this thread in it so I followed the link, then came across my name.