What A Load Of Crock - Convict X Oscar

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[video=youtube;jghbDuCpdZ4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jghbDuCpdZ4[/video]

This is the info on the video

My female Calico Convict Cichlid mated with my Tiger Oscar and this is the result. They are 4 months old and there must be about 70 of them.
 
Baxtor,

I am taking it as you are saying you found this on Youtube, posted by someone else, correct? But I would agree that this is almost 100% false. Especially since for the most part they looked like normal convicts more or less. They might be a little elongated (been a while since I had cons that young) but that is about it.

-Cage
 
cage623 said:
Baxtor,

I am taking it as you are saying you found this on Youtube, posted by someone else, correct? But I would agree that this is almost 100% false. Especially since for the most part they looked like normal convicts more or less. They might be a little elongated (been a while since I had cons that young) but that is about it.

-Cage
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That is what happened here. He's calling BS and so am I. The things I've heard of Oscars is that they don't spawn with anything but other Oscars.
 
That female Convict spawned with something other than another Con. Convicts at that size or full grown do not have a long body like that. I agree that it is a hybrid, but an Oscar/Con. HMMM....... Possible.
 
Oscars (astronotus ocellatus) cannot breed with any other genus of Cichlids. For a species that has been around for hundreds of years and is arguably the "most popular cichlid in the hobby", you would think any hybrids would have been widely reported by now. It's always some newbie/clueless hobbyist that claims to have an Oscar hybrid and every single time it's been proven wrong. This is the same people that keep them in 29 gal tanks and feed em hot dogs and pinky mice.
 
My Albino Oscar and Red Bay Snook tried to breed. They would always lay eggs but they would never hatch. The Oscar was the male and Red Bay the female. I always figured Oscars can't breed with other cichlids successfully.
 
convict markings and odd body shape couldnt pin point the genetics til a bit older
 
cacichlids said:
Oscars (astronotus ocellatus) cannot breed with any other genus of Cichlids. For a species that has been around for hundreds of years and is arguably the "most popular cichlid in the hobby", you would think any hybrids would have been widely reported by now. It's always some newbie/clueless hobbyist that claims to have an Oscar hybrid and every single time it's been proven wrong. This is the same people that keep them in 29 gal tanks and feed em hot dogs and pinky mice.
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You may be correct. But those are not full of Convict. There is something else in there.
 
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