Single Species Tank

[star4]

I am toying with the idea (way in the future) of having a tank with just convicts in. Would this work?

 

[always4lora]

Depends on what you want, if you dont want them to breed you could get a group of females depending on the size of tank. or you could get a pair and just remove the fry when they breed.

 

[Wills]

It can work pretty nice I think I agree with above and try and stick with females as the fry will get a bit silly lols.

What kind of size were you thinking?

Just as an other idea you can do a nice community of similar species in a tank like cutteri and HRP if you stick to females it would look dead nice

 

[star4]

I am hoping I am going to have my rio 300 spare when I move all the other fish about and get my other 400l tanks sorted. I was thinking of a tank of females. I have one pair at the moment (no babies yet) and I was thinking I could keep a few females. I like the HRP they would look really stunning as a group. I did want a tank with just frontosa in but they are going way out of my price range so I thought convicts would be the cheap alternative lol (I really like fish with stripes)

 

[Wills]

Wow 300 liters, my girlfriend is the same she loves blue and black striped fish lols. If you got some small frontosas they might not be too expensive? I know minxy got some recently but not sure how much they were.

 

[star4]

I have 3 small Burundi fronts at the moment, they were £5 each, which wasnt too bad, They are going in one 400l tank, but I am going to see if they will mix ok with my Servs and a couple of other CA's (fingers crossed).

Recently people are only selling F1 Zaire fronts which cheapest I have found are £10 for 1-2" fish! which makes them way out of my range for a species only tank. Hence the thought of a nice large group of cons in a 300l.

 

[Wills]

ah right cool in that case I would go for it try and stick to just females not sure of numbers to suggest really. What other fish did you have in mind? I think with just females will broaden your stocking options maybe get some swordtails as dithers and some nice plecs and/or hoplos maybe?

 

[the_evil_duboisi]

I once heard a convict fan from Cichlid-Forum who had two convicts tanks-one male and the other female. But one day a male got into the female tank. Both parties were happy

 

[star4]

I wasnt planning on any other fish just pure convict tank. Maybe possibly some pictus cats for the bottom