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whats the wierdest experiences u had with convicts?
« on: August 20, 2006, 06:31:06 PM »
just though id start a new post about convict experience oh and dont forget whats the wierdest convict breedings u had mine is my moms blood parret and myfemale convict but as we fish keepers now 99.5% of parrets are infertle so nothing will come out of this

so post ur wierdest experience and wierdest breeds plz

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Re: whats the wierdest experiences u had with convicts?
« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2006, 12:24:37 PM »
Dad ate all the fry !!!!  >:(
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Re: whats the wierdest experiences u had with convicts?
« Reply #2 on: August 24, 2006, 01:48:47 PM »
Here's mine didn't get any cons until a few months ago but got a few at a local club auction that were micro size LOL well I put them in a 29g with some misc residents all little youngsters and over the next couple of months seperating the other residents a con ended up or there spread out into different tanks. So finally decided I should put them all in the same house LOL came time to move them out of the 29g as I wanted to move discus pair into that tank sure enough there were fry could have only been from one group in there caught as many as I could put them into a tank to grow a bit and the ones I didn't catch figured the big blue diamonds (the male is a good 8" and the female not far behind) could have a live snack, well wouldn't you know it they raised them cons and are now about 1 -1 1/2" long. This is by far one of the funniest sights to see those little cons in with that pair of discus, I'll have to get a pic of it. My cichlids all get along basically a act of war is so rare as the hoodlums have been weeded out here and there over the years, but this is by far one of the funniest happy go lucky relationships I've ever had amongst them all.
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Discus, angels, cichlasoma coryphanoides, convicts, hemichromis lifalili & bimaculatus, salvini, Neo multis, juli regani, Tropheus Hembe & Mboko, labeo fuelleborni, OB esthrae, thomasi, checkerboards, plus a few other misc ones
Then there is bettas, killis, goldies, paradise fish, swordtails, tetras, long finned zebra danios, lyretail guppys, misc catfish, leporinus, bala sharks, plecs and more than likely a few I've forgotten
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Re: whats the wierdest experiences u had with convicts?
« Reply #3 on: October 20, 2006, 06:39:22 PM »
i had a female con all by herself in a 10 gallon tank ( i didnt know any better) i thought she looked rather lonely so i went to the LFS and bought her a male...well they lived together for about 3 weeks...then she killed him...well then a month after she killed him...im looking in her tank and then i see these little things swimming around...SHE HAD FRY!!!  but they were only a few days old!!!  i was wondering!! how could that be??  that male died a month ago!!  SHE HAD BABIES ALL BY HERSELF!!  unless something really weird happened....i dont know....yall decide

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Re: whats the wierdest experiences u had with convicts?
« Reply #4 on: October 26, 2006, 09:46:16 AM »
They bred, you never saw the eggs.  ???????   Just a guess.
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Re: whats the wierdest experiences u had with convicts?
« Reply #5 on: October 26, 2006, 04:00:14 PM »
ya but the fry were only a couple days old...and they male had died a month ago.....dont the eggs only take a few days to hatch??

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Re: whats the wierdest experiences u had with convicts?
« Reply #6 on: October 26, 2006, 07:22:53 PM »
Eggs take just under/about a week then you get wrigglers and the parent would hide the very small fry after this, so it's more than likely you have just not seen them.

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Re: whats the wierdest experiences u had with convicts?
« Reply #7 on: October 27, 2006, 09:05:35 AM »
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Female jumped out of her tank and landed in the goldfish tank that was underneath it.  Took a couple of double takes to figure out the fish was in the wrong tank.  :-X




We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.

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Re: whats the wierdest experiences u had with convicts?
« Reply #8 on: October 28, 2006, 03:38:02 AM »
Thats a good one,, high diver convict O0 ;D ;D

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Re: whats the wierdest experiences u had with convicts?
« Reply #9 on: November 09, 2006, 03:58:58 PM »
holy shizzle my bizzle this forum is still alive

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Re: whats the wierdest experiences u had with convicts?
« Reply #10 on: November 09, 2006, 05:12:15 PM »
holy shizzle my bizzle this forum is still alive

Can someone translate for those of us that speak English please.

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Re: whats the wierdest experiences u had with convicts?
« Reply #11 on: November 11, 2006, 10:51:11 AM »
holy shizzle my bizzle this forum is still alive

Can someone translate for those of us that speak English please.
LOL! I think that means
WOW!The convict section is still alive!

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Re: whats the wierdest experiences u had with convicts?
« Reply #12 on: December 22, 2006, 01:09:08 PM »
In the late 1980's I had a convict mate with it's tankmate a Texas cichlid. The fry favored the father ,the one from Texas. They made a strange couple but the kids looked normal.

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Re: whats the wierdest experiences u had with convicts?
« Reply #13 on: February 19, 2007, 11:08:07 AM »
Just a quick one, my convicts have been taking food in their mouths and swimming down to the fry to spit the food out again for the fry to eat, is this normal ?

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Re: whats the wierdest experiences u had with convicts?
« Reply #14 on: February 19, 2007, 12:40:06 PM »
Yes