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Posted	convicts
23-04-2006 14:48 by clownloachlady	this has been bugging me for a while. a few months back i bought ten cons and my friend bought five cons. my cons went into the juwel 180 and her went into the juwel 96. her tank had a few angels, clown loaches, skunks, yo-yo, neons, couple of tetras in it. my tank has catfish's, clowns, yoyo, skunk, two frogs, tetras, mollies in. her tetra and neons started to disapear and none of my fish has been touched. now i know now that cons love neons. but in my tank the cons have not bullied anything, eaten anything or destroyed anything. is it merely a case that her cons she so happened to pick enjoyed her fish? or is it because the space they was in was to small? ALSO my cons have made groups and taken various corners of the tank. the keep flashing their gills at each other and im tlaking four of them having a gill stand-off... really funny to watch actually. is this mating? playing? aggresion? or just plain sillyness?
23-04-2006 15:21 by telboy	ya cons have established theyre own little terriotrys sounds like ya got some mating pairs getting ready to boogie on down!have ya got any terracotta pots in the tank? if not put a few in [not too big]theyll pair up n start breeding females are normally smaller + when ready to mate will have orange/yellow bellies + maybe colours to fins! males will be bigger with elongated fins + will be the ones doing most of the displaying ya dominant fish will be a slightly darker colour! hope this helps CLL
23-04-2006 15:27 by telboy	take a close look at these
23-04-2006 15:28 by telboy	the one at front to left of pic is the female! the one at back is male
23-04-2006 15:30 by telboy	or these ya can see the females at back
23-04-2006 16:44 by clownloachlady	cheers telboy. but im curious, why terracotta pots? why do they like them? and how many will i need for ten cons?
23-04-2006 17:33 by telboy	i like to give a choice of pots for each pair so avg of 2-3pots per pair
23-04-2006 21:24 by clownloachlady	mmm
23-04-2006 23:00 by Lexter	i would not keep Convicts with tetras, in fact I would not keep convicts with any fish really, exept themselves (unless you get Convicts of the same sex), as even with other tougher fish, a breeding pair of Convicts can take over a tank. I initially found this entertaining, but then stressful, I had Cons with Firemouths and Blue Acara's
23-04-2006 23:01 by Lexter	you can get lucky and have semi-peaceful breeding Cons, some are just more aggressive than others, without seeing your tank will be hard to tell whats going on, but definitly get some pots THOUGH THIS WONT STOP THE AGGRESSION, it will just envcourage the female to lay eggs if thats what she has planned
23-04-2006 23:04 by clownloachlady	Oh WOW Lex-Master has taken his nose out his essay that should be on its 1.90002230 page... hehe they all came from same parents and lived together since babies. but i dont know wahts male, female, bi straight whatever!!!
23-04-2006 23:04 by Lexter	I have one 2 foot tank with about 7 or 8 small(ish) cons in there but now 2 lots have paired up and both have bred, so have a 2 foot tank with 2 lots of breeding cons, there is always fighting, but convicts seem to be tougher, they can seem to take it more without getting depressed about it, i mean you watch a gouramis or something in a tank with aggro, its often not the physical abuse which kills a fish, its the mental stuff (i should know i am studying therapy!!!) but serously, it takes its toll mentally on the other fish as well, and a stressed out fish is MUCH more prone to disease and illness (like humans are), so i would watch your tank carefully, unfortunately sometimes you have to make sacrifices if you catch the CONVICT BUG, you may have to move the cons out of the the other fish out eventually
23-04-2006 23:06 by clownloachlady	ps lex whens the wedding?
23-04-2006 23:08 by Lexter	drinks, food, fish talk, fun times, thats what its all about!!!
23-04-2006 23:11 by clownloachlady	good night people!!!
23-04-2006 23:11 by rob r	lexters logo drinks/food/fish talk fun times thats what its all about at aquoarist classified
23-04-2006 23:17 by Lexter	night peeps
23-04-2006 23:17 by Lexter
24-04-2006 11:20 by telboy	CLL youll soon find out whos who in the world of connies in ya tank when they start to bred! cos there'll be mayhem youll find the dominant pair will own 2 thirds of the tank + all ya other fish will have to share whats left[thats if they survive of course]!!!
24-04-2006 18:03 by clownloachlady	oh cr ap.
26-04-2006 22:31 by sarahcole	what is it
26-04-2006 22:32 by sarahcole	here is mac2
26-04-2006 22:34 by rob r	orandas
26-04-2006 22:36 by Lexter	thats a different kinda convict Rob, never seen that strain before mate!!!
26-04-2006 22:44 by sarahcole	this is angel what is she?
26-04-2006 22:47 by heros hero	top is a fantail,bottom is a black moor.
26-04-2006 22:47 by sarahcole	which is the orandas? the little on or the last one
26-04-2006 22:48 by kell	two are fantails and one is a black moor(mac2 obviously), they are all fancy goldfish, except angel dosent look too good. ps you need to start your own thread, hijacking aint nice.
26-04-2006 22:49 by sarahcole	rob r and lexter u have confused me which fish is which?
26-04-2006 22:51 by sarahcole	i know angel is not well geting stuff advised by telboy tomorrow should put her right they are my second set of fish i normally only have cats fish are new to me
26-04-2006 22:52 by sarahcole	hoy who hijacked what???
26-04-2006 22:54 by rob r	both are fancy fantail orandas and as kell said start yr own thread .i done my intro on cll s thread but have learnt since.
26-04-2006 22:59 by heros hero	what can you folk see is wrong with the fish in the 3rd pic? Shiny scales,erect fins and the startings of an oranda cap.Just asking cos i don't see anything obvious
26-04-2006 23:00 by sarahcole	very sorry just asked hubby what hijacking is he has explained and growled so i am off now thanks very much sorry again thanks for the help

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