My awesome new convict pair

[Hybridfish7]

To any of the experts, are these pure cons? Their breeding dress is beautiful, both get jet black bellies and the female's coloration gets even brighter
The blue on the male plus his tinted red tail tell me he has some other blood in him but what do you think?
Hate to ask but are they even convicts at all?

 

[tlindsey]

To any of the experts, are these pure cons? Their breeding dress is beautiful, both get jet black bellies and the female's coloration gets even brighter
The blue on the male plus his tinted red tail tell me he has some other blood in him but what do you think?
Hate to ask but are they even convicts at all?

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Good looking Convicts.

 

[jbuenavides]

Well you have two of the most adorable convicts in your fish tank, and seems like they are not camera shy at all.

 

[maxstillen]

Convicts are the coolest starter fish. Thats what I started out with in the hobby and they were never a shy fish especially at spawning stages. But they breed like crazy. I still love to raise some but I just don't have the space for them. Honduran red points are pretty close to convicts but have much more blues in the fins almost like yours. Depends on where you bought them they might be Honduran red points from the blue fins. Etheir way they are the coolest starter fish for a begginer.

 

[Hybridfish7]

while i'm nowhere near a beginner, they're still loveable for any level of fishkeeping and i like to recommend them to people as a first fish as opposed to things like goldfish because of their behavior and how forgiving they are with poor water quality

 

[tigerbob]

These two convicts have very good color. Are the small fish mosquito fish? Are they feeders?

 

[Hybridfish7]

These two convicts have very good color. Are the small fish mosquito fish? Are they feeders?

yes mosquitofish, no, dithers
i had a school of 11 in the tank before the convicts, and i just kept em in to have more activity in the tank to keep the convicts from getting skittish
they're fast enough to get away from nips, sturdy enough to take hits, and large enough to not get eaten, perfect imo
and wild caught so free lol

 

[kingthedog]

I have some juvenile cons and something got off and the ammonia went off the charts. Somehow they all survived.

 

[Hybridfish7]

i have some sort of hybrid amatitlania too
marble con x platinum hrp i'm guessing, he got more of the hrp side
parents were sold as such but anyway
he ate all the siblings from his batch and he was tiny when i sold his older siblings, so i just raised the one tiny white convict in a 5 gallon full of subwasserang
filter burned out, i didn't notice because of how weak it was before
heater also died but i didn't notice because it was one of the cheap ones without a light
i don't know how long he was going without either but he was still acting the same and showing no signs of stress (begging for food, shredding the subwassertang into tiny pieces, moving things in the tank around, he was still around an inch long by this point) so i felt i didn't need to rush to get him new equipment
right now he's situated in a 10 since it's just him and he has more of the hrp blood in him so he won't get as big and clunky as a convict
and he's doing all the same things except now he has an inch and a half of sand so he's doing a good bit of digging
he's about 2 and a half inches long without streamers, streamers go about an inch past his tail
real indestructible fish

 

[MrsE88]

They are beautiful! Love the leaf litter too.