Photos of my convicts

[AquaDan]

Thank you everyone. I got them all at around 1 inch the 3 marbles and 1 pink. I feed them a variety like mysis shrimp , river and baby shrimp , krill , omega one medium and hikari pellets. cant really recall how old they are maybe about a year give or take a few months.
here is the father of the batch of babies growing out , was paired for a one time spawn with a pink female.

and some photos of the babies some show some decent patterns planning on keeping a few of the interesting ones and hopefully a female or two.

and a small group at feeding

 

[kevbc03]

Wow very nice cons. How old are they?

 

[Ctrl_Alt_Dlt]

What is your experience with crossing marbles to pink? what was the outcome like?

 

[gnuisance]

Man those are sweet - proof that you can have extraordinary examples of even the most common cichlids.

 

[AquaDan]

Thank you Everyone. I think the results were good for a first batch there is slight color even on the pink babies. I tried pairing the small heavy colored male to a pink female at first putting him with with 4 egg laying pink females but he refused to pair up. The larger male i dropped in a few days after the oldest female had layed eggs and they paired up instantly. I managed to get a few better quality photos there are some with a good amount of black that look to be female and its likely those are the only ones ill be keeping in an attempt to pair them up with the small marbled male i have. Thank you all again for looking and the great comments.

 

[indiana.dutton]

Nice cons

 

[AquaDan]

Sorry to bring back this thread thought id post a few new photos of the babies.
Many of them are nearing an inch and its about time for me to get rid of the ones i wont be keeping as they are really eating a lot. If anyone one sees this and is local to the area 05851 your welcome to have any of the babies. Im looking to get rid of the tanks i have now if i cant find a smaller tank i might get rid of the adults also. Thanks people.

 

[kevbc03]

wow they look amazing!

 

[Modest_Man]

No shipping? USPS two day priority would be cheap, I wouldn't mind 8-10 marbled.

 

[Camphilophus]

No shipping? USPS two day priority would be cheap, I wouldn't mind 8-10 marbled.

ditto! Breed some more marble into them for a few generations before you start shipping them out.