Sexing my black convicts, need a little help
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I have to disagree. Body shape, stripes, and coloration doesn't say full HRP.
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Head shape looks Honduran, blue looks honduran. Though yes, stripes are a bit too regular. But to be honest, these looks young and I still think that they're just HRPs.
I think there just young black convicts with good coloration they wey they look could be the inbreeding that these guys are so badly known for I've notice chain stores that carry convicts are diffrent looking from wild caught cons
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heres a pic of what wild cons tend to look like 1st pic is my old con wild
View attachment 822123now heres a male what i think are inbred cons sold in chain stores
also heres a female more pure bred
and a chain store female convict 
View attachment 822123now heres a male what i think are inbred cons sold in chain stores also heres a female more pure bred and a chain store female convict
We all have our opinions. Have you kept Hondurans before? Cause I have a pair right now and I can't see any similarity between the head shape.
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And they look exactly like the ones in the pic, the head shape anyways.They aren't HRP's. The powder blue in HRP's is evident at a very small size. They are LFS convicts, which have a ton of variability when it comes to what they look like. Unless you got them from a reputable source that can identify their collection location back to the wild, I would assume that they are some sort of mix of convict types. The convict group was only recently broken down into four separate species (nigrofaciatus, siquia, kanna, & coatepeque, plus HRP which is scientifically undescribed). There is even discussion amongst those who have collected these fish from the wild that there may be even more undescribed species out there, including the recently available siquia from Rio Cabayo. Folks didn't even know they were "hybridizing" the fish when breeding them years ago. They were simply taking the pretty females and mixing them with the pretty males.
BTW, I have never seen a male convict with orange on the belly. The females will have a range of colors from gold to red depending on where they are from and males will have different coloration as well, but they do not have orange on the belly.
To the OP - good luck with the pair. They should provide you with fry in no time.
BTW, I have never seen a male convict with orange on the belly. The females will have a range of colors from gold to red depending on where they are from and males will have different coloration as well, but they do not have orange on the belly.
To the OP - good luck with the pair. They should provide you with fry in no time.
Our water here has a high pH and it has not done well with many other fish but these guys, my other SA/CA cichlids and my Africans love it though. So it works. I bought one at the LFS, because they only had the one left and wanting to have a pair (even if it wasn't a male and female pair) I went to the petsmart around here, not having any other places near me that had them. You don't seem them all that often around here unless you go to the petsmart or the petco.
He's chasing her around the tank like crazy (I know it's bad but they live with my Africans and get along with them great and are doing amazing in this tank. They beat up my jack dempsey who was double their size so they were removed from that tank but eventually I hope will be moved back in once my JD grows a big larger, and can hopefully defend himself) and the only fish the male seems to be worried about besides her is my cobalt blue zebra cichlid. He will out of nowhere go after the blue cobalt and try to lock lips with it but the blue swims away and hides.
He's chasing her around the tank like crazy (I know it's bad but they live with my Africans and get along with them great and are doing amazing in this tank. They beat up my jack dempsey who was double their size so they were removed from that tank but eventually I hope will be moved back in once my JD grows a big larger, and can hopefully defend himself) and the only fish the male seems to be worried about besides her is my cobalt blue zebra cichlid. He will out of nowhere go after the blue cobalt and try to lock lips with it but the blue swims away and hides.
