Male convicts together?

[Sinister-Kisses]

Now obviously, I've kept my fair share of convicts over my 32 or so years in this hobby. But always just a solo convict or a breeding pair in their own tank. However I've currently got a group of breeding size subadults living in my 6ft, 125gal as "dithers" for Tolken, my adult male midas (by dithers I just mean something to keep him company that he won't slaughter lol). A pair has formed and has wigglers. Naturally they're on one end of the tank, opposite of Tolken's den on the other end, and of course being very nasty to the other convicts who are now forced to the middle ish and harassed from both sides. I don't really want them breeding, but like having a few of them together. If I were to pull the females, and leave just 3 males of about the same size, is there any chance an all male trio might coexist? I've never tried multiple like this.

 

[SilverArowanaBoi]

Now obviously, I've kept my fair share of convicts over my 32 or so years in this hobby. But always just a solo convict or a breeding pair in their own tank. However I've currently got a group of breeding size subadults living in my 6ft, 125gal as "dithers" for Tolken, my adult male midas (by dithers I just mean something to keep him company that he won't slaughter lol). A pair has formed and has wigglers. Naturally they're on one end of the tank, opposite of Tolken's den on the other end, and of course being very nasty to the other convicts who are now forced to the middle ish and harassed from both sides. I don't really want them breeding, but like having a few of them together. If I were to pull the females, and leave just 3 males of about the same size, is there any chance an all male trio might coexist? I've never tried multiple like this.

While I'm not the most experienced person with this topic, I would think that they should be fine together as long as they have adequate territories to claim, a large enough tank size and some dithers to break things up. Are these convicts siblings/family or just random convicts put together via fish store raids?

 

[Sinister-Kisses]

Two are POSSIBLY related, bought at the same time from a massive tank full in a store. The third is definitely not.

 

[ruincccc]

i have three male convicts in my 440G for the same reason not wanting them to breed, they coexist among themselves and with a few pbass and other big sized cichlids with no issues.

 

[Sinister-Kisses]

Hmm a 440 is a lot bigger than my 125 though lol. Guess I'll have to give it a try and see what happens, and separate them if needed.

 

[Hybridfish7]

I think they'll be fine. I have a septemfasciata-nicoya convict hybrid with his (septemfasciata) grandfather in my 125 with the female green umbee. They just kinda hang out together and stay out of the umbee's way. Sometimes the umbee and grandpa fight over food but nothing that doesn't heal within a few days.