Can Convict Cichlids Move Their Own Eggs After Spawning

[love4cichlids16]

I have a pair of mating and already spawned convict cichlids one day i look in there breeding pot and there is eggs the next day i look again and there isnt any. I know that they can eat them themselves and also the other convicts in the tank can eat them too as i do have some in there because i have another tank but i have to wait for it to cycle befor ei can move these fish over, but i was just wandering if after the eggs get laid, is it possible for the male or female to move them?

 

[Ripley]

I don't think so. I have bred convicts many time in the past ( like most ppl lol ), but have never seen them move their eggs. Like you said they most likely got eaten, if it was the pairs first time breeding they may have ate them as they are just new to the world of making babies.

 

[love4cichlids16]

I don't think so. I have bred convicts many time in the past ( like most ppl lol ), but have never seen them move their eggs. Like you said they most likely got eaten, if it was the pairs first time breeding they may have ate them as they are just new to the world of making babies.

its fine tho i got like 3 males and like 7 or 8 females so i know i will have a nice spawning pair if not 2 or maybe 3 but i am going to be watching closely as i have hadd a breeding pair before and the fry last till they were free swimming but by the time the tank got cycled out to transfer da fish over to da new tank they had already eaten the fry lol, but no in my transfer tank i got some koi and some fancy tail guppies along with a nice 8-9 inch pleco in there now so i am setting up another 30 gallon tank to move da fish into, but thank you for your feed back

 

[Athena]

Yes, my female pink convict did this the first time she spawned in my tank. She first laid her eggs inside an ornament, then I noticed her going back and forth for ages from the ornament to a rock that had some fake plants embedded into it. I was so curious by her behaviour, wondering what on earth she was doing - then I noticed that she was actually moving her eggs.

Whether or not she realised that the place she had laid them initially was impossible for the larger male convict to get in and fertilize them I don't know - but she moved all of them (must have been done one by one as she was as it for at least an hour going back and forth) eventually. And several days later there were miniscule fry!

Athena

 

[love4cichlids16]

thank you so much for your answer as i believe she ate them but it is nice to know that the female does move the eggs, but it is fine because a few days after this happened i believe the same male and femaled spawned again and has even more eggs this time i am in day 4 of the eggs still waiting for them to hatch we will see hopefully soon

 

[love4cichlids16]

Im bk my eggs did hatch finally but after they hatched that next morning they were gone, not sure if the coprate was the parents or some of the other convicts in the tank, but hey its fine, to mix things up a little to see if i can get a diffrent pair to breed with better sucess i changed around the tank so where the first to batches of eggs were, i changed it to make the pot stand up to see how they react to that and to see if it will help keep out the predators if they decide to spawn again, but on a better note in my live bearer tank one of my females gave birth to about 15 fry to what i hope is my male i want this strain to be he is a solid color neon blue but at diffrent time his whole body can change to green or to a diffrent color blue he is a really nice fish so hopfullly i can pass this on

 

[tHE SCRiBBLEs]

Ive never heard of that happening, so probably they got eaten. Next time they will probably hatch