Convict eggs

[Paul_MTS]

Last night I spotted a good few eggs on a rock in my convict tank. The female is doing a very nice job fanning them and I'm going to remove the 2 plecs in there for safety measure.

What else do i need to do for them?

When do the eggs hatch?

 

[Dwarfs]

Just let the parents take care of the eggs They should hatch in a few days, and become free swimming 1-3 days after that

 

[Paul_MTS]

Woooo the eggs have hatched. I went to look at the eggs and there all gone thinking crap....crap..crap!!

look just below and there's alot of wiggling going on

YAY

Should I feed anything different?

 

[guppymonkey]

What do you normally feed? If you can get brine shrimp eggs I would try hatching them as the fry will grow faster with baby brine shrimp.

 

[Paul_MTS]

I feed, Hikari cichlid gold mainly in there now, some catfish pellets also go in for banjo cats.

I put 2 slices of cucumber in there yesterday and they dispapered pretty quick.

I'ved hatched brine shrimp before without much success, i always got small results.

 

[Dwarfs]

Unless you plan on saving most of the cons, just let the babies pick at the water and gravel, because in a well-cycled tank there are usually tiny little bugs and things like that that the fry will eat. I don't feed my fry cichlid (until they can eat crushed food) , so I usually end up with 3-10 babies left

 

[Paul_MTS]

yay there free swimming now, i dropped in some liquifry and the parents attacked it before it went down to them but there's some aorund.

 

[fishman 1]

I feed my fry on very fine granular food or finely crushed flake which is released below the surface so it sinks. I find certain species that are prolific at breeding like the convict, spilurum and sajica normally cope fairly well at feeding themselves on bits and bobs in the tank in between feeds. I cannot see why you need to hatch brine shrimp for these. It is not as though they are angels that require almost constant feeding. Besides it would not be cost effective as you will get very little cash return for the young (if any).
Have you removed the banjo cats? These will preditorist the young. It may help to reduce your numbers, which might be a blessing if you end up with lots of them.
I find it is always nice to get results with fish breeding. Even if there is not a high return on the young.
Keep up the good work.

 

[fufanu360]

wow, how big are the parents?!?


im hoping mine are gonna lay some eggs sometime soon