steed1172

well lately I've been looking for convict cichlids (other than from my petco)
so i could breed, as would like to see fish raise their fry (unlike my live bearers...nomnomnom) anywho, the LFS just down the street has convicts for sale.. and i was there earlier and from what i could tell they had males and females, and i was wondering if i could pick out a random male and random female, and have them breed- being convicts i would think that it wouldn't matter... but i just wanted to check first

THANKS!

Chris123

The female are more rounder and have orange bellys

Hope that helps

CB

steed1172

actually... what i meant was if i picked a random PAIR if i could get them to breed, as many people/sites recomend picking several then having them pair naturally.

Chris123

Yeah you can there not really picky when it comes to breeding. I bought 2 cons that were in difffrent tanks and they breed for me

CB

Shawnie

watch the tank for a good 20 mins..you will be able to pick a pair out for sure ...they will be the 2 chasing all the others away..its no garuntee either way of getting them to breed....ive had some males kill fems and visa versa.....but you will be able to see an established pair in the tank if you take the time to watch them

steed1172

thanks!... i do remember seeing very small convicts in one of the tanks...(very smalls convicts with large uns)

EDIT: had to run for dinner lawl.....will let ya know how it goes...in a day or two ^.^

1309mw

convicts are the red light district on the cichlid world.

steed1172

which means..

UPDATE UPDATE:
well went to store today.... waited too long,hardly any there, and the two i picked im pretty sure are both females... D'OH

although there DARNED CUTE!!!!

P.S they both(one more than the other) seems to pick at the sand i have in the tank then spit it out, which is terribly fun to watch but is it "normal"?