Wow so freaking neat! I am loving this vid. I'm a new convict owner and aquarium builder. Ty for this info!

dont usually like or comment but ill do both, great video. nicely relayed information

one of the best videos on youtube

One of the easiest fish to get, keep and one of the best looking and most enjoyable personalities.

Thank You! Very good information, you have nice convict cichlid fish.

Most wonderful information with most beautiful video :)

Best video I've found on convicts!

Very very useful, ours have just spawned!!! Lol, then we thought they were eating them!!!

Awesome info! Just purchased 2 in my tank and i love them

awesome video. your fish are nice. great information. thank you

Thanks for the informational video. others ive watched have no commentary

Nice job on this video. Your personal experience with them and explanation is very informative. Thanks

I love this video, reminds me of when I had Convict's. They'll breed alright, we would take then into one of our local fish store for store credit till one day the owner (half jokingly) told us that if we brought him one more convict he'd ban us for life. I think they would breed about every 3 months, about 100 fry at a time. We eventually sold the original breeding pair for around $30.00. On a side note the fry we kept started breeding once they hit the 1 inch mark. And they say rabbit's are bad. ;)

I LOVE MY BREEDING PAIR!! so many babies, always.

Best video out there on convicts

I just got 2 little female convicts to join my 13 inch albino Oscar in his new, huge tank, and they're doing great! I was scared he would eat them, but they're way too quick for him. I got them to help clean up the tank, since oscars are so messy, and they are amazing at it. They love all the food floating around, lol.

Very informative thank you.

convinced me to get these convicts doing my research first

Awesome video!

after a few frys they tend not to be as agressive when having their babies.Yes they chase the other fish when they get close to their babies but they dont attack to kill or hurt.The first 2 fry their gonna be real agressive but after that they tend to be much more tolerant.Hope this helps.

Thanks for watchin man!

Thank you for heads up. I was considering a pair for a 35 gallon tank. That is more frye than I can handle.

I dont even follow or watch anything related to fish but this was in my recommended so ok, cool video nonetheless XD

one of my favorite fish , they are baby making machines

Convicts are hardy as hell. One of my favorite cichlids. Second only to Oscars. As stated very easy to breed. The only cichlids I've ever had breed are a pair of convicts. And certainly the only egg layers i've ever had breed. I highly recommend them. They're not as personable as oscars (at least the ones that i've had)

Very rewarding fish to breed but would only keep them with bottom feeders when breeding or get large tank

nice fish there, as a personal opinion don't like mixed tank with convicts they are one of my personal favorites but they will destroy everything else in any tank great for species only tanks

Great video

Nice fish i planning to get black covint cichid

They are great fish

I have mine with my polar blue cichlids with no problems

Nice. Read the same thing on google earlier only difference is this is like reading a picture book.

She is quite a Beauty! Tanks!

Well Done!

very informative

You should make a fire mouth care guide too! please.

Thanks!

I've kept convicts on and off for years and just last year I bought a few, long story short, my pair had babies several times in the end only 2 survived (I let nature take its course, survival for the fittest), now I have two young males, one's bigger and he fights my catfish for territory! My other convicts died of a disease which I couldn't cure (inflamed fins, let me know if you know what that is)

I believe you cannot stop the circle of life with these little horn puppets. The only way would be to seperate them or just own the same sex of the species. Best of Luck!

that firemouth is looking for a fight.

I need more help in telling the difference in male and female especially when they're young? Please help 🙏

I give them to my Local Fish Store :)

Agreed!

nice

I agree not all fish are blood thirsty maniacs, however, the general consensus is that the Convicts are an agressive fish and should be noted that they will be harm to smaller fish and even the big ones ;)

i like much your video and all you explain about the cichlids, i have just one male cichlid convict black streaps , i had another lind of fishs but he kill to all of them, now i do a 10 gallons just for him ,my question is why he remove all the gravel and make a hole and he stay there ? im trying to find a same kind od him but female but how he is a bigger is no easy find it same size

Cool video! My pair just bred for the first time this month. At what stage should I remove the fry?

Heyyy bunny here💙🐰💙 but why do you keep an oscar with them.. can they go together???? I have a 220L sand tank cycling for a pair so yah now I'm waiting! Thats a very cool video btw .. new subscriber here! ✌🏻🌻 Bunny out💙🐰💙

Well thanks I will message you if I get the urge to make another iN-dEPTH. Tanks!!!

Will the convicts eat their fry, should they be seperated at some point , or can they be left in the same tank continuously? Thank great video, Ill be subscribing

I love my cichlids I have 140 of them!! 😂😂

Tanks boss!

i have 2 female convicts who ive had for about 3.5 years. they tend to have their moments where they seem to fall out with each other and wont go near each other for about a day, then are back together.

Sir, what about thorichthys species, such as thorichthys maculipinnis? They are very closely related. Do they need the same temperature for general keeping? I am wondering because I saw conflicting information online. Some recommend as high as 79-82 claiming it boosts the immune system, while other as low as 72-75 in order to increase oxygen saturation.

cool video I subbed

Nice video, mine got swimming fry a day or 2 ago, when/what do you do when they get bigger, can i just leavm in tank?

Yeah nothin like a little protein snack for the oscar!

and great upload

I’m setting up a 40 gallon breeder tank for a pair of convicts. I see that you have a pleco in with your fish. I’ve been trying to figure out what fish I might be able to use as a clean up crew. Something that would be safe around parents and fry. I like cory catfish but I’m not sure how the convicts would react to them being in the aquarium

I have mine in a 30 litre tank, they've recently laid eggs but is this sustainable in such a small environment? we had no choice we saved them from the porcelain express at a friends house :(

I have a 200W heater for my 55 gallon tank. Best of luck!

Why did you say they should be kept on their own but there’s different types of cichlids in the tank

and Tanks!

Someone did their homework

Question. I was trying to see if there’s any chance I can get a small “clean up crew,” for a pair, and I was wondering if Kuhli Loaches could possibly work. Kuhli loaches are nocturnal and hide during the day, and then at night they come out and eat, basically being out of the convicts way. Is this possible??

i have 8 baby convicts in a tank now , will they all fight if they breed?

I need that driftwood

Very nice fish you have and great info, it got a thumbs up and a subscribe. What do you usually do with your extra fry?

Do both males and females dig pits in preparation for egg laying?

That oscars gonna eat those convicts when it gets bigger

as soon as i introduced the male to the famales tank... the male lost most of his color,, and started pumping his gills/flaring his gills. is this normal?

he could be a honduran red point their similar to convict cichlids but little less agressive and more colorful

thank you, for a good video. can you tell me what PH, suits this fish ? What is your PH ?

i have one male convict in my 66 US gallon Community aquarium which consists of 3 bala shark 1 Red tail shark 1 angel 3 diffrent african ciclids 1 sucking loach and 4 guppys which are left from cycling. it is generally a peaceful community apart from the fact the convict chases almost every fish in the tank most of the time but i dont wont to get rid of him so any ways to calm them down abit ?

ohh and i dont mean to bomb your vid like this but ill say another thing.The male convict doesnt hang around much after the 3rd or 4th fry.I have 3 female and one male and before the fry get any real size he leaves them and starts another fry with one of the other convicts.I find jewels are much more agressive when they have fry,they take just about half the tank.But this is only their 2nd fry.All mine are about 3 inches.Right now i have 4 convicts,1m/3f 3 jewels,1m2f.....and 3 yellow labs1m2f...and U might not believe this but all 3 sets of fish are having fry at the same time in a 60g tank.The convicts and the jewels usually have them a week apart like this time,the lab is holding hers in her mouth as we speak.Imma make a video of them when they spit them out and yu can see them clearly. This was the best convict vid ive seen yet on youtube.GJ.

I had a male with my german blue rams and hatchet fish didnt work so good I temporarily stuck him into a 5 gallon octogon has enough room for the time my male german ram would get picked on by him and this korning found the ram dead earlier I found the hatchetfish dead and whats funny is none of my original 3 fish in the tank got killed I had a ram a hatchet fish and a catfish he didnt touch them but he really likes his new tank I will buy him a gallon and a female thanks for tips wish I would have know sooner of their ogressiveness

I have a convict that I'd like to breed in my 55 gallon although my tank is shared with about 6 blue crayfish that love to hide in my clay pots.. Would the fry be in danger of getting eaten?

I would be in fear for your blue crayfish as convicts can be very aggressive towards other inhabitants in the tank when they have there fry near by. Best of luck :)

lmao ur just reading from the wiki page!

Is that right??

Could I mix other cichlid whit my Black Convict Cichlid like: Kenyi African Cichlid Electric Yellow Labidochromis Bumblebee African Cichlid Acei Cichlid Albino Tiger Oscar Cichlid Blood Red Parrot Cichlid Tiger Oscar Cichlid Jewel Cichlid Jack Dempsey Cichlid Red Oscar Cichlid Red Devil Childhood

@ JD Smith. None in a 5 gallon. That is too small. Keep some shrimp or a few guppies in your 5 gallon.

I just got 2 small ones with nice orange and blue on the bottom, I didn’t know those were girls. I was hoping for 2 pit bull type that can tolerate a very mean green terror. But I doubt 2 small girls can take the abuse. We’ll see

do convict fry grow up to be juvenile delinquents ? ?

Can I keep them with a red tail black shark?

I noticed there is a pim pictus cat in there I have 2 convicts one of each sex one angel 2 malawis one Malawi's killed the third after some serious time together weird 2 silver sharks one multi synodontis 3 plecs that's it any recommends should all these be OK? They seem to be so far

My mating pair wont stop by time the babies get 5 weeks old, they are ready for another round of fry unfortunately around the same time the now 5 week old are getting eating by their parents is this common

Hey man I have 10 new Convicts. I have in my tank currently I have 3 african cichlids 1 rainbow shark 5 regular goldfish and sailfin molly 2 tetras and 10 new convicts i got from a guy free and about half of them are baby and are about a 0.75 of an inch i have the kind you have but the biggets ones are the black striped ones and I only have a 1 inch pink or white conict and also half of the babies are black striped convict and are white convict and I have a 55 gallon tank is good for babies

How do you prevent them from breeding?

Holy shit they can take on oscar that size lol

He read that off of Wikipedia

That would be a Firemouth :)

I don't got one of them but maybe someday :)

when do they get there color

Thank you very much for the information, it is very useful, I am planning to get these fish for my new fish tank,what is the minimum size tank that is required for them?

how many gallons is this tank?

What do you do with all the fry?

how about a indepth jack dempsey

i got 4 of em if you need video i got 2 golds 1 electric blue jack dempsey and 1 regular

And you will have many more soon if they are a cute couple.