What should I get in a 10g

[Nabbig2]

I had 3 convicts; 2 male and one female. I kept one male in the 60 and kept a male and female in the 10 gallon. The first male, liked the female and would try to court her, she disaproves. I then replace males, and this time she's interested, but he's not having it. I traded all of them for guppies and plants. To me, its cool watching a tank of 3 guppies turn to 20 guppies (from breeding). I'm going to fill my 60 gallon with the babies I catch, and just let it populate until I find my small predator to control the guppy population.

Yeah, I love guppies, I have nothing against them. But I want to try cichlids, or something bigger, and I hear convicts are too easy to breed. Not my case unfortunately.

 

[MarlboroMan]

10 gallons is a bit small for any cichlid, maybe even dwarf cichlids. You could get a single pair of dwarf cichlids, but not a community type tank. Do you plan to feed your 29 gallon with the fry?

 

[bigspizz]

Yeah, I love guppies, I have nothing against them. But I want to try cichlids, or something bigger, and I hear convicts are too easy to breed. Not my case unfortunately.

What are you gonna do with the fry? Make the ten a sump for your 29....or keep it clear for a hospital tank. Dwarf puffers are dope. You can grow plants for your 29. put the cons in the 29 ten for the sump that would be a Japanese style tank jjk. Get some black PVC cut it into six inch pieces and let it float in your ten this is what I use after I pull fry and the male gets PISSED!!! It works great keeps them from seeing each other too much. Put like 4 of them in there and you will know when they have made up.

 

[Nabbig2]

What are you gonna do with the fry? Make the ten a sump for your 29....or keep it clear for a hospital tank. Dwarf puffers are dope. You can grow plants for your 29. put the cons in the 29 ten for the sump that would be a Japanese style tank jjk. Get some black PVC cut it into six inch pieces and let it float in your ten this is what I use after I pull fry and the male gets PISSED!!! It works great keeps them from seeing each other too much. Put like 4 of them in there and you will know when they have made up.

4 cons in the 10?

 

[X24]

Kribs breed just about as readily as cons do, and they fit your 10 gallon tank 100x better! get about 4-5 kribs and as soon as a pair forms, take the rest out and keep the pair, you'll have as many kribs as you would cons.

 

[bigspizz]

4 cons in the 10?

No sorry pieces of pvc.....not cons just 2.

 

[Nabbig2]

Kribs breed just about as readily as cons do, and they fit your 10 gallon tank 100x better! get about 4-5 kribs and as soon as a pair forms, take the rest out and keep the pair, you'll have as many kribs as you would cons.

Good thought. Tomorow I'll check if the lfs has kribs.

 

[Dread]

Good thought. Tomorow I'll check if the lfs has kribs.

Not to be a downer, but if you only have the 10, the last thing you should be doing is breeding fish. How are the fry to grow-out? What are they going to be housed in once the parents get tired of them? What about a quarantine tank? Even if you use fry as feeders, they need to grow abit before they're even more than a toothpick for most fish.

 

[Nabbig2]

Not to be a downer, but if you only have the 10, the last thing you should be doing is breeding fish. How are the fry to grow-out? What are they going to be housed in once the parents get tired of them? What about a quarantine tank? Even if you use fry as feeders, they need to grow abit before they're even more than a toothpick for most fish.

That's true. I could probably sell baby cons to the store. But breeding guppies would be fine ofcourse.

 

[bigspizz]

another 10 would cost 9.99.....why the heck not. Your parents need to deal with it. Just go buy it set it up and tell them to deal with it.....