what size do convicts breed at? i just got a pair, male and female for sure, with beautiful fins. there about 3 in and follow eachother around the 125 endlessly. what size do they breed at and what are some things i should do thatll help and what behavior signs should i watch for
what size do cons breed
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I had my first clutch when they where about 5 cm in length, don't know what that is in inches. However like ^^^ stated, parental care is shaky. It might take a couple of tries to get some survivors. My first clutch all hatched, leaving me with 200+ fry, but none survived due to shaky parental care after hatching.
To be honest, with the number of baby convicts I get, I do not do a lot of anything extra in caring for the fry. I guess I am sort of unintentionally selecting for viability and vigor. Too bad that a large number of them end up as food for some of my other fish.
I don't do cold water changes as it doesn't seem to do anything for them. As for food, I just feed the adults sera vipan and sera spirulina tabs. The fry get special food... As in finely ground down sera vipan... That's it. I am not too worried about survival of all the fry. I would rather that the strong and healthy fry survive to keep the fish strong and healthy.
A couple of flat stones seem to be the favored egg laying site here, so maybe that will help. Other than that, just let nature take it's course....
A couple of flat stones seem to be the favored egg laying site here, so maybe that will help. Other than that, just let nature take it's course....
tscharf;5032855; said:
The smallest pair I have ever had was a half inch female breeding with an almost one inch male...........COnvict cichlids will breed in a 5g HOME DEPOT bucket, litterly.............Just stick an airstone and small heater inside of it...........The most basic setup will be a 10g with a samll clay flowering pot set on its side...........An extra tank will be needed to raise the spawn to saleable/feeder size..........A 20g LONG or better, a 55g is the ideal size to raise a spawn to two months old..........Two months is the perfect size fry are ready to be sold or traded..........The fry at around one month are fine to feed as small treats..........