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I have a male and female convict the female has a white looking thing hanging out her anal but also I have a kenny one pecocasames srry bout the spelling three gold fish two are very small one is four inch in a 29 gallon tank

Main thing is wut do the convicts eat and wut should I do so she can have a Goo birth place for the fry
 
Welcome to the forum tjdbtessa5209.
A proper breeding arrangement for a pair of convicts would be a tank of their own at about 10 to 15 gallons minimum. A tank that size would mean moving fry or parents soon after the fry were big enough to care for themselves since it would otherwise get very crowded in a very short time. Convicts can be fed the same thing as the rest of your fish. Convict fry will be quite small but things like microworms and then baby brine shrimp make good early foods.
 
Thanks oldman I'm try to get a hundred gallon tank in a couple of weeks do u happen to know how aggressive a kenny is
 
Your female has a "white looking thing hanging out her anal"?
Do you mean this as her breeding tube came out? or does it look as if she's pooing white feces?

If she's pooing white, that's not a good thing. That means internal parasites.
Just asking to clear that up.

Also, what do you mean a Kenny fish? What's the proper name of this fish?

And what kind of Plecostomus (Pleco for short) do you have? Is it a bushynose, or another type of smaller species of "suckerfish", or is it just a Common Pleco?
If it is a Common Pleco, it will need to be rehomed eventually down the road, because they can grow up to 12 inches in length.

Convicts will do fine with a high quality fish flake food, frozen blood worms, frozen brine shrimp, or small fish pellets.
If the convicts start to spawn, it will probably become noticeable to you because they will become more aggressive to all the fish in your tank, and your female may develop a peach/orange colored belly.

When my convicts layed eggs, the female dissappeared for a few days straight, she was hiding/laying her eggs and hatching them.
Then all of a sudden, she appeared with tons of small babies about the size of a grain of rice.

They are excellent parents and will defend their babies. They may even become overly aggressive to your other fish, so be careful...

I have a 90 gallon aquarium, and while my convicts had their babies around, they sure nipped up some of my other fish's fins (mind you, the fish they nipped up are 3 to 4 times the convict's size)
a 7 inch Severum, a 6 inch Blood Parrot, and my 4 inch Oscar all got nipped on.

I had to put my Oscar into a hospital tank for him to heal, he got nipped up so bad.

You can put some cave-like decorations into your tank and some flat rocks for the female to lay her eggs.
She could either choose a cave to go into and lay eggs inside on the wall of the decoration (like mine did) or she could lay all of her eggs out in the open on the surface of the flat rock.

Sorry I typed so much, hope I help! :good:
 
Yes a normal sucker and my kenny is its real name I talked to a couple of people that have had them and they are very aggressive fish and it is a female they are blue with black stripes my female convict is not pooing it is the same length every day
 
I know what you mean jackie, my albino convict killed my flowerhorn and the flowerhorn was about 3 times its size...
 
I got my pink convicts at my lfs. I bought them as fry and was told they were blood parrots. They cost $0.25 because they were so small. Imagine my surprise as they grew. Definately not blood parrots! They can be nasty little buggers. Very territorial. I bought 4 of them and ended up with 2 breeding pair. Both pair spawn at the same time. then they play let's steal the babies. One pair will round up ALL of the fry in the tank and hide them under a rock or in a cave. Then the other pair will wait till night and steal the fry back. Very fun to watch! If you want to save any of the fry, you need to put a pair alone in their own tank. After they ply hide the babies a few times, they start eating them, at least that's what I assume is happening since they all disappear.
 

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