Strive for calico convicts
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I honestly dont think that HRPs are a completely different species from convicts it really doesnt make sense, they have the same variation of convicts and there is no really difference in the two accept for color. I wouldnt breed those beautiful females to a regular black convict i think an HRP will do them justice trust me. My offspring from HRP x calico are looking very nice and i will post pics when there true colors show up on the camera.
I dont think hrps are a different species either. In all honesty I think they are just a variation of cons separated to different regions witch cause the four convict like cichlids to adapt new traits.
I couldnt agree more, and people really put them in a different category. if you look at an HRP and Black convict i mean really look at them both closely lol there is no difference but color and size, besides that they have the same markings and shape.
I couldnt agree more, and people really put them in a different category. if you look at an HRP and Black convict i mean really look at them both closely lol there is no difference but color and size, besides that they have the same markings and shape.
yup. many believe cause of their taxonomy that they are separate species. but if you look at all four they looks the same size , color, and marking with slight variations in them.
I couldnt agree more, and people really put them in a different category. if you look at an HRP and Black convict i mean really look at them both closely lol there is no difference but color and size, besides that they have the same markings and shape.
yup. many believe cause of their taxonomy that they are separate species. but if you look at all four they looks the same size , color, and marking with slight variations in them.
Are they close to his size? Cool art that would be awesome.
No, Doomie, the male is like three and a half inches, maybe four inches. The smallest female is a little over 3/4" and the larger female is maybe just barely 1" so they both have some growing to do before I will put them with that big male. They may look mature by their color but they are still practically fry at this point. That's why I got the mollies and white clouds in the pics with them, so you could see how really little the females are. I am power feeding the two little females with live newly hatched BBS and mosquito larvae and live fruit flies plus different micro pellets. They can also eat the baby mollies that keep popping out of the females I have in with them. They also eat the scattered eggs from the semi-lucistic White Clouds. The white clouds scatter-lay every three days. I am really happy with them, they have great color for such small young juvies.
I honestly dont think that HRPs are a completely different species from convicts it really doesnt make sense, they have the same variation of convicts and there is no really difference in the two accept for color. I wouldnt breed those beautiful females to a regular black convict i think an HRP will do them justice trust me. My offspring from HRP x calico are looking very nice and i will post pics when there true colors show up on the camera.
Ernie, I somewhat agree about Cons and HRPs. That may be why the ichthyologists have not yet described them formally. They could be so close with no easy way to ID the difference like scale counts and teeth counts or jaw structure or fin ray counts. If they are all the same or similar enough that the slight difference does not constitute a separate species, but rather a sub-species, the scientists will slow down and study them way longer before making a definitive statement so that they are not humiliated by their peers for making a "scientific method" blunder. If that's the case, we might not see a species name this decade. Also if they are only a sub-species and a scientist does not get to name it and take credit for it there is less motivation to do all the work in correctly identifying it.
My "Platinum"? HRPs come in the mail on Tuesday so I will have more opinion then after observing them for a while as to whether they are so convict-like as to be the same species. If they are really as bright white and blue as the aquabid picture of the parent shows, I will breed them only with themselves to preserve the platinum look and to be able to sell them as platinum HRPs locally. However if they look like golds or pinks in person, then I will more than likely breed them with my calico convicts if they happen to bond that way by chance.
Oh ueah they are way too small for him . I had an odd pair like that of blue cons. The male was a solid 4" and the female was 1.5". I wouldn't chance it thought. With that diet get religious with water changes. That will help them grow too.
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