Itty Bitty Teeny Weeny Baby Cons!

[F 1]

I finally have baby convicts. Where they had laid their eggs under the stack of pots that they had toppled over with their digging, I couldn't see the eggs. When I did a water change and gravel vacuuming this past weekend, the male convict would attack the siphon when I brought it near the pot stack. I was watching them last night and thought that if there were babies under there, I would have to feed them. I had been very reluctant to move the pot stack and look for fear of upsetting them but when I did move it (very gently) there they were. I crushed up some flakes and released them down near the babies. That made the male very unhappy and if he had teeth my hand would be quite scarred today.

When I got up this morning, they had all been moved to another pot. As I watched, one tried to swim out of the pot. The female swam to it, sucked it into her mouth and spit it back inside the pot. Fascinating!

 

[Rusty_S]

Wow that sounds really exciting! I wish I had the time and money to invest in creating breeding environments for my fish Good luck for the future of your baby cons

 

[F 1]

Thanks. I can't wait to get home from work. I called my wife on an unrelated subject earlier today and she said that the proud parents were leading about 100 fry around the tank.

F1