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I walked by my tank the other day and had to look really close to find 2 of my female convicts. After a while I found them holed up in 2 seperate terra cotta pots that have placed in the tanks for breeding. This morning I have wrigglers! I have had them before, but never 2 females at once. I find this awesome and a new experiance for me, as I get to watch how this all plays out.

I have also just figured out that my female curvicep has laid eggs as well. So, I will be over run with babies for a while.



Fish are friends, Not Food. -Bruce(Finding Nemo)

Haha , thats excellent news, but it is hard work. Ive had to deal with hundreds of cichlid fry too, welcome to a most exquisite hell.

Good luck with them.

Thanks! I'm excited. I've had other fry before But, I've always had to remove the babies before the parents eat them. lol This is a totally new experiance for me.

Oh, we now have baby piranha too!!!!!


Fish are friends, Not Food. -Bruce(Finding Nemo)

Congrats. for the fry & prepair yourself for some hard work.

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Unfortunately from experience when you have two batches in one tank the end result is that they will attack each others fry.

So far, I'm having good luck with the convicts. The babies are funny to watch.

As for my curvicep tank, a photo is going to be in THF I think it's pretty sweet!

Fish are friends, Not Food. -Bruce(Finding Nemo)

Nice Job!

I do have a few questions though:

What size tank?
What are the tank mates?
Is your male quite agressive?
What about the females?

Just a few questions I was wondering about.

again, congrats!

The tank is a 55 gallon. But, I have moved all the other fish from the tank as soon as the babies were born. I also placed a divider between my two pairs to keep them from fighting. By the way, this is in my convict tank. I moved the other tank mates, other convicts, into a 75 gallon tank were the the two pair will go once the babies are older. The males are really aggressive, hence the divider. And in my experiance the females are just as agressive as the males, if not worse. The tank is a Species tank only.

Now, my curviceps are in a species only tank as well, except for the algae eater, which hides alot. Both the male and female are eqaully agressive in this tank as well. I have even been nipped by the male with the new babies in the tank.

Fish are friends, Not Food. -Bruce(Finding Nemo)