convicts

[Fishy89]

i thought convicts were african, not new- world. someone correct me if im wrong

 

[phoenix]

convicts are not african, you are now corrected..

 

[Mustang5L5]

Well within the last 12 hours, my two largest cons have paired up. You will know when it happens because the females colors will be vivid. I wish i could say the same about my male....because he basically turned pure black. Oh yeah both these fish are pure evil! They beat the hell out of the other two males in the tank. I took them out and will be returning them to the LFS. For the most part the leave the barbs alone. The only time i see them go after the barbs is when the barbs get cocky and fin-nip the female. Her tail fin is a little ragged from the little troublemakers.

Anyway, it's fun to watch them display and dig out a little pit in the front of the tank in plain view. I'm just happy they left all my plants alone. They haven't uprooted anything yet, but i've seen how big their pits can get.

Took me two weeks to pair up two cons. I bought 8 seperate fish to do it. Now time to sit back and enjoy the show.

I hope they don't have fry when my next shipment of plants to fill in the background of the tank comes in

 

[iloveyou]

yea i think the tank was a 48 gallon bowfront..... hopefully this next weekend my parents will look into it more... convicts startin to get bigger alrdy ... theyve yet to hurt or kill each other so far in their small tanks... hopefully it will stay that way until i get a biggerr tank... i might also move around my fish in the tanks... might put all the livebearers from the 20 into 2 seperate 10s so the convicts can move into the 20 gallon/...will have to wait till the word comes from my parents about new tank

 

[JoKeR]

My pair has a black one very black and the female has orange scales like WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ill post pics.