Marbled Convict Cichlds

[zleathal45]

Hello all I am new here so go easy on me I was wondering how to get the marbled convict gene out of the line. I have the wild type (stripped) and the recessive (pink) type as well. Where do I go from there? Does the marbled phenotype come from breeding the pinks together or stripped? Thanks.

 

[Aquatic Aggression]

You may eventually get some pinks with small black spots on dorsal fins etc but the best way to breed marbled marbled cons is to start with a marbled con.

 

[importracer]

Hello all I am new here so go easy on me I was wondering how to get the marbled convict gene out of the line. I have the wild type (stripped) and the recessive (pink) type as well. Where do I go from there? Does the marbled phenotype come from breeding the pinks together or stripped? Thanks.

So you want the marbled gene out of the line?????Experimenting, huh?????????Fun.........In any given spawn there will be normal colored fry........Normal colored being, all solid tone black...........Then, once you get a cfew of the spawn that came out solid tone, breed them together and you will eventually get all regular colored fry..............

 

[zleathal45]

Looking back at my original post I can see where it might have confused people. I have the black and pink convicts. I want to know how to get marbled ones, and I don't want to buy them. I want to have my experiment. I know it might take a few generations which will be time consuming but I want to know how to get marbled convicts. Has anyone gotten marbled convicts from breeding instead of buying them? Hope this clears things up. Thanks, Zed.

 

[Aquatic Aggression]

It will take a long long time. If in the first few generations you do get some pinks that show a small amount of black you may have some luck but its not likely to happen. You will have to grow out entire spawns at a time to try and find what will be the start of a marbled coloration. I am growing a spawn of marbled x pink right now and it takes sooo long waiting for markings to develope but they are showing up.
Your best bet would be finding a striped type con with irregular bars and markings and breed that with a pink con that shows any little bit of black on it then go from there.

 

[Aquatic Aggression]

You could also contact Jeff Rapps from tangled up in cichlids as I believe he and another guy are credited with the creation of this con color morph. Maybe he would share how they accomplished this.

 

[zleathal45]

Ok thanks for the infor A.A. The only LFS currently that I have access to is Petsmart, but their selection is pretty slim. You think it would be easier if I waited around and bought two convicts from them that should signs of marbling?

 

[zleathal45]

Oh I meant to ask you this, in order for me to get marbled I must breed a irregular black one with an irregular pink one? Or could I also take two black ones with irregular bands or two pink ones with blotches to make marbled ones??

 

[importracer]

I just seen some at the store yesterday, yuck.........The marble color puts your eye off, and you do not reconize it as a convict cichlid right away...........at three inches, I think they were selling them for $8...........

 

[Aquatic Aggression]

I like them. It's interesting to watch the markings developed as they grow. No two are alike.
I got rid of my largest heavily marbled male and I seen him last week and he looks like a black and white cow. Here's my largest male now he's only about 2" and gets more spots every day.