The fry have been free swimming for almost a week. There doesn't look to be any Pink babies so the male might not be a het. Maybe they're too small to tell?
My First Ever Cichlid Babies! Question About Pink Convicts
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They are way to small to tell any traits. The only reason someone would know what they are is you told us. In most cichlids their color/pattern up as they mature. Some sooner than others but a good rule of thumb is around 3 inches, then they continue to look better over the next few inches or so. Patterns become bolder and colors more intense as they grow up to a point, this is for a lot cichlids. Maybe someone who has breed convicts a lot could give their input. Grow them out for a while to see how they turnout.
Thanks for the info! I see dark coloration on them all that is what leads me to think they're not luecistic aka Pink Convicts.
With cons its from ½-1 inch that colors start to come in go through a few batches and you should be able to see what your looking for at that size
i have a pink male that bred w a black female last month. they should all be 100% black but being a carrier of the recessive pink trait. Im then going to breed a male (carrier) from that batch to a female who is already a calico con.
I had assumed these were clutch mates as they were in the same growout tank when I bought them. So the male would be either het for leucistic [het x homo] or 66% possible het for leucistic [het x het]. Coming from breeding Leopard Gecko morphs I know you can still miss on making visual homozygous animals when breeding het x homo. With the quantity of eggs to a clutch from a fish compared to the two egg clutch of a leopard gecko you'd have to have pretty bad luck to hatch not a single homozygous animal.