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Convict Cichlid - A very colorful female

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Uploaded by on Jan 28, 2009

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS : 1. Difference between Male and Female = easiest way to tell the difference is that FEMALES HAVE ORANGE BELLIES and males do not... 2. How large do Convicts grow = FEMALES 3-4 inches and MALES 5-6 inches (some report 7 inches)

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  • Can a pair of sellers' size convicts live in a 5 gallon tank?

  • @kenny1236631 they can live in it, but not for long...

  • pleas anser me! is that little white one see at the bottem at 0:03 a pink convict?

  • @119Halo yes it is a pink convict

  • omg wow!!! that has to be the best female convict i've ever seen!! you did a great job raising her ! =) but i have a question if ur willing to reply back. I want 1 or 2 convicts but i dont really have any room if they have any babies...(i've heard they can have lots of babies)...so i wanted maybe 1 or 2 females...but would they go good with other fish rather then another kind of cichlid? maybe like a cory catfish?

  • @twe93 you might get away with having a bottom feeder in the tank, but convicts are very territorial when spawning and very unpredictable. I have put them in with much larger fish before as food. If they are not eaten and have a chance to breed then they will go for the eyes of the larger, more aggressive fish. they really should be in a tank of their own if they are breeding and once they fry hatch, then the male needs to be removed from the tank.

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  • ANYONE!!! I just got my first batch of convict cichlids and i kept 1 male and 1 female to breed to my 20 gallon so i can count them. Will one male be enought for the famle to chooose from?

  • my female ate the mate n everyother fish i tryed to put in the tank...how do i get babies without her eatin everyone

  • u should get some fry within 2 weeks or so... cuz that is her mating colors

  • what would u recommend doing with extra fry?

  • i just got mine today, and i love them

  • @EpicFighter12345 You're dumb. Males are only black and white, maybe a little blue on the fins. Unless you're color blind, that's obviously a female.

  • every says this one is the female that's absolutely wrong there the males because there bigger and i looked online :P

  • my convict doesn't have a orange belly its just brownish gray

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