Question about fry

[Mystix212]

Mouthbrooding is when a fish holds the eggs inside the buccal cavity for a period of time before the fish emerge into little fish. Not sucking them up. The existing part on the side of the skull, they're called gills!!

 

[Druu]

Mouthbrooding is when a fish holds the eggs inside the buccal cavity for a period of time before the fish emerge into little fish. Not sucking them up. The existing part on the side of the skull, they're called gills!!

http://cichlidae.com/article.php?id=133

First paragraph reads as follows:

Mouthbrooding is so common in cichlids that many aquarists may not realize that it is a rare and specialized form of parental care. Mouthbrooding has evolved at least eight different times in fishes in such diverse groups as arowanas, silurid catfishes, cardinalfishes, jawfishes, and anabantoids (Oppenheimer, 1970), but the habit has reached its zenith in cichlids, where the behavior has developed independently in South American, West African, and African rift lake subgroups.

 

[sandtiger]

Mouthbrooding is when they actually rear the eggs and fry in their mouths. Convicts don't do that, they aren't mouthbrooders. They move them with their mouth but that's it.

 

[oii]

when I refered to "the skull" I was talking about the tank decor that they've been keeping the fry in.

 

[Bderick67]

Mystix is right and the quote you posted below does nothing to support your statement about convicts beeing mouthbrooders. If you would take time to read the entire article you may have a better understanding of what mouthbrooding is.

http://cichlidae.com/article.php?id=133

First paragraph reads as follows:

Mouthbrooding is so common in cichlids that many aquarists may not realize that it is a rare and specialized form of parental care. Mouthbrooding has evolved at least eight different times in fishes in such diverse groups as arowanas, silurid catfishes, cardinalfishes, jawfishes, and anabantoids (Oppenheimer, 1970), but the habit has reached its zenith in cichlids, where the behavior has developed independently in South American, West African, and African rift lake subgroups.

 

[oii]

does anybody know how long it takes my fry to get big enough were I can watch them swim around my tank?