Can I Do This

[MBOU]

Like they say on other forums.... "photos or it didnt happen!".

That aside... for the convicts....

The Normal colour is dominant over all th others, especially the pink.

So if the Normals is 100% normal and the pink is 100% pink, you would have 100% normal babies hetrozygous for pink.

However you dont know the genetics of either of the adults so you cant 100% predict the outcome, you can only follow the law of mendalian inheritance(which at the time in collage, i didnt understand at all but tbh i didnt really care about peas! much easier to see it in action).

The trouble is, you wont ever be able to guarantee either of your cons arent hybrids because HRP x Normal Cons can look just like normal cons... but genetically different. Wholeother reason why hybrids are bad, because you end up losing both species when they are unable to be told apart.

Here is a good website for someone who put the theory to the test and bred a whole lot of convicts.

http/gregthecrazyfishguy.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/convict-cichlid-marble-genes/

Definately an interesting read!

 

[creeker]

Wow! Nice MBOU, interesting read about Convict genetics. That's the most attention I've paid to Convicts in the past 40 years or so.

 

[MBOU]

LOL me too! I went through all the same reading when i saw my first marbled convicts at a wholesalers about 3 years ago before marbled convicts were so common. I really upset them asking "what the heck are those butt ugly patchy fish" to be told its their new exciting baby marble convicts that they were so proud of... lol

(much prefered their zebra shovelnose tbh!)

 

[minnnt]

But according to the OP his 'Pink Convict' has actually probably got some Parrot Blood in it somehwere along the line so that will mess with the outcome, hence not 100% wild colouration will be produced. I had a pair of normal coloured HRP's and roughly 75% were leucistic.

 

[creeker]

But according to the OP his 'Pink Convict' has actually probably got some Parrot Blood in it somehwere along the line so that will mess with the outcome, hence not 100% wild colouration will be produced. I had a pair of normal coloured HRP's and roughly 75% were leucistic.

Actually, according to that article, it is more dependent on whether or not the Black (wild type) parent is pure or not.You are right that it could mess with the outcome if the other fish was not pure black (genetically.)If the pink one was part parrot, I think that would weaken the influence of the pink parent even more. Those Parrots genes are so messed up and they are so highly mutated, nothing would surprise me there. While I have zero experience with the parrots, my impression is that they are a hybrid fish, therefore lacking a true wild type.

 

[MBOU]

Hence why i wrote this....

So if the Normals is 100% normal and the pink is 100% pink, you would have 100% normal babies hetrozygous for pink.

However you dont know the genetics of either of the adults so you cant 100% predict the outcome...

But also Snake said the shop owner said it 'might' be a parrot hybrid but it wasnt really known and the shop owner was hardly reliable... so who knows!

 

[snake007]

The black cons are true black cons, who came from true black cons who also came from true black cons as I saw the grandfather of these cons but who knows....

 

[snake007]

Is there any way to induce spawning?
The male seems to be getting a bit ticked of with the female, The female has her breeding colors (Very orange belly and fins) Full of eggs and the males dug a nice big pit in a cave, he keeps flaring at her, trying to bring her to the cave but she just stares at him, Today he tried to bring her in and she went and started digging aswell, so is there anything I could do to speed things up, like water changes or anything?

 

[walkers101]

raise the temp by 1 degree take 30% water out and sprinkle cooler water from a hosepipe


It simulates a heavy rainfall which is when quite a few species spawn

 

[minnnt]

raise the temp by 1 degree take 30% water out and sprinkle cooler water from a hosepipe


It simulates a heavy rainfall which is when quite a few species spawn

100% agree. This is what i used to do with my HRP's. Worked everytime!

 

[snake007]

Thanks Ill get right on that!

 

[snake007]

My female con now has like a hole pointy thing under her belly, what is this?

 

[minnnt]

Breeding tube

 

[snake007]

Oooh, I think they might have spawned, they started doing this vertical dance and flaring at eachother, then the female went into the cave, came out, the male went in, then came out, then the female went back in, They've been doing this for the past 5 minutes now, Does it sound like spawning?

 

[minnnt]

It is indeed the bahviour of spawning. Did you get the camera? Get some pics up of them doing it.