What is going on with my cons!

bball4life

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:S Well what happened was one of my big female cons and one of my big male cons all of a sudden started to flare at eachother and turned to a darker color. I thought they were fighting because I thought the other female had already paired off with this male, but some where I read that this might be apart of spawning or something like that not really sure. I missed how it started, oh yea btw the other smaller female I thought he paired off with fought back too, but I dont know if this was becaause she thought the other female was trying to fight her or something else. Someone please tell me what is going on!
 
My pair Flare at each other every now and then, well the male most of the time. Like mwm said are you sure there not both males?
 
Im positive, I would post pics of her but I cant. But now the pair that I suspected before with the smaller femlae and the larger male that were fighting seem to be cleaning out 2 spots for the fry which are the flower pot and in a cave. Maybe they were trying to hold off the other female since it seems like they are spawning too. It also seems like they are moving rocks too. Is it normal for them to do all of this at the same time? Actually now they are cleaning the top and the inside of the flower pot, but they used to always go into the cave I setup.
 
Does the digging in the gravel usually take the longest when cons are about to spawn? Cuz both of them are trying together to dig in the gravel but they are not making much progress.
 
Sounds like there ready to spawn, might even happen tonight if they are cleaning the pot and digging gravel out of the way.
 
:kana: WOW! Thats great! but just so I can assure a good spawning should I shut the light off? Or should I do any other stuff so I can make it 100% sure that I get a good spawn out of this? But, the digging is not going along very well they are trying hard by trying to grab and move rocks with their mouth and almost like they are bulldozing the gravel out the way, You can kind of see where they have been digging, but its not much. Any tips will help, since this is my first time keeping and spawning any kind of cichlid.
 
You dont really need to do anything, cons are very good with there young.
The only thing is if you want the babies to live 100% for sure then put a divider in the tank so no other fish can get to these babies, then you will have to move the young to another tank after 2 weeks because then the convicts will spawn again and they might kill the young to make room for the new ones. But thats if you want to keep them.
 

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