Convict breeding

Convicts are some of the easiest fish to breed. The running joke is that you
can breed Convicts in a box of damp newspaper. Well, not quite ....

You need an adult male, an adult female, some food, and a container of water
with no other fish in it. Convicts are so agressive that when breeding they
can injure or kill fish much larger than themselves. A 10 gallon aquarium
might do, but 20 gallons or more is better.

Other than the agression problem, they do well at pH 6.3 to 7.5 , soft to
moderately hard water, 74 to 82 F . It helps to seperate the adults for a
few weeks and fatten them up with lots of live or frozen foods, but it's not
really required.

They usually lay their eggs on a smooth rock. Flower pots or other smooth
surfaces will do. The eggs hatch in about 3-5 days, after which the adults
move the fry to small pits dug in the gravel. The parents take great care of
the fry for several weeks.

Glad to help;
Keith J.

"Myles Mansell" wrote in message
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Okay, so what are the best conditions for breeding and is there anything I
can do to promote it? Thanks.




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They say "just add water". My convicts have laid eggs and and got to the
free swimming fry stage 3 times, but fry seem to disappear after a few days.
Parents are young, and in 20 gallons of soft water. Only tankmate is a
borneo sucker.

Leong


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Convicts are some of the easiest fish to breed. The running joke is that
you
can breed Convicts in a box of damp newspaper. Well, not quite ....

You need an adult male, an adult female, some food, and a container of
water
with no other fish in it. Convicts are so agressive that when breeding
they
can injure or kill fish much larger than themselves. A 10 gallon aquarium
might do, but 20 gallons or more is better.

Other than the agression problem, they do well at pH 6.3 to 7.5 , soft to
moderately hard water, 74 to 82 F . It helps to seperate the adults for a
few weeks and fatten them up with lots of live or frozen foods, but it's
not
really required.

They usually lay their eggs on a smooth rock. Flower pots or other smooth
surfaces will do. The eggs hatch in about 3-5 days, after which the adults
move the fry to small pits dug in the gravel. The parents take great care
of
the fry for several weeks.

Glad to help;
Keith J.

"Myles Mansell" wrote in message
news:%xlnb.200315$9l5.41164@pd7tw2no...
Okay, so what are the best conditions for breeding and is there anything
I
can do to promote it? Thanks.




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I've heard that if you raise your aquarium temperature to about 79-82 it
will induce breeding. Probably something to do with the temperature of
their natural waters at the time of year that they start breeding.