iN-dEPTH: Black Convict Cichlid (Archocentrus Nigrofasciatus)
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- In this weeks episode of iN-dEPTH we take a closer look at the Black Convict Cichlid. This aggresive cichlid is one of the most well known freshwater fish due to it's ability to reproduce like rabbits and be able to survive in a wide range of water parameters. Enjoy!
dont usually like or comment but ill do both, great video. nicely relayed information
lmao ur just reading from the wiki page!
Are you kiddin me man, I never spoke so much bull latin in my life haha. It's a lot of facts but that's what this kind of is, plus a few personal experiences with these baby makin machines. Take care Sammy boy!
Only toke me a year to reply lol.
Sammy boy! I'll give u Sammy boy! Haha. Na FairPlay mate this video did actual help me out last year so thumbs buddy.
So thumbs up buddy*
Wow so freaking neat! I am loving this vid. I'm a new convict owner and aquarium builder. Ty for this info!
I love my cichlids I have 140 of them!! 😂😂
@Curt Jackson yep
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
I dont even follow or watch anything related to fish but this was in my recommended so ok, cool video nonetheless XD
Very rewarding fish to breed but would only keep them with bottom feeders when breeding or get large tank
Very very useful, ours have just spawned!!! Lol, then we thought they were eating them!!!
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
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.
I keep hearing something about convict being monogamous ..
Quick Q&A?
When convict ‘s mate-they mate for life? False!!!
this is so false-coupled off possibly but wit hundreds in ex:180gal
community tank-
my 1yr. Experiment was a crazy Experience, most of what we hear is true, however-there are several myths floating about like #1
again-in equal sizes & numbers-with
Equal female to male ratio-or paired up-they do tend to get very nasty-& pair off..however I’m 100% both jump ship/at any Convict related/enticement 100% tone down-living wit various different fish. As a Bass eats a sun fish when it’s natural predators are always present upon 🧼 soapy suds on top of the surface water
Sick? Naaa just -8-convicts got nasty & rough-ending in -well/hundreds, upon hundreds & nesting, guarding whenever I see the foam..I start to look.
It honestly depends on their size-but in general if you keep Convicts & dont sell them for a living-follow advice or it will be the end of keeping fish.
Trust me & you need -2jack’s -2Jags, -2true giant Blood 🩸Parrot(who would never mate with any of my Convicts) & his buddy -2 red fin shark-barb-8” these two r egg devours my convicts r three different colors & personal feel -the days of the black convicts-r just long gone-with pinks/snows/blue eyes/H.Red-pointers-I achieved all three colors without any form of hybridization-as these-4-are all convicts
I need more help in telling the difference in male and female especially when they're young?
Please help 🙏
Are you just reading off of Wikipedia? Not gonna lie, pretty boring
Why did you say they should be kept on their own but there’s different types of cichlids in the tank
one of the best videos on youtube
Get a Male and a Female, and you’ll get 100 fish in a blink
Use your own words. Reading from wikipedia is lame.
Someone did their homework
yep if you have to many fry feed em to your'e brother's oscar!
Holy shit they can take on oscar that size lol
Nice fish i planning to get black covint cichid
I give them to my Local Fish Store :)
i got 3 females i dont want tham to lay eggs
That oscars gonna eat those convicts when it gets bigger
a full grown oscar would have a GREAT difficulty eating a full grown convict. I've bred BOTH in the SAME tank
it is allready near to fit it in its mouth lol ... he is underating the appetite of the oscar xD
I have mine with my polar blue cichlids with no problems
i know this is a old comment but i thought you might be interested to know that convict cichlids can breed with another fish called a blood parrot and the offspring is polar blue cichlids so thats why they get along there really closely related polar blue cichlids are half convicts themselfs they will cross breed so you will be getting a nice mixed gene pool dont be surprised if one of your convicts pairs off with a polar blue and starts laying eggs these are my favorite fish even though they are cheap and not sought after and breed more then i know what to do with them the way they defend there nest and cutely build there little nest in the substrate by sucking up mouthfulls of substrate and spitting it out to prepare it for the babys they are adorable and they will fight fish 20 times bigger then themselfs which makes them very brave in my opinion lots of personality i like oscars too but oscars are so huge and im worried my floor is going to collapse from the giant tank the oscar lives in
Many good points, thanks for sharing. New sub. You might want to check out my new convict group!
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!
Slap it in the gill plate no I honestly don't know how to simmer the aggresion in these creatures. My male takes on an Oscar that is 3 times the size of it's own body. Cichlids just tend to have this aggression, but may calm over time.
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 ;)
Wikipedia reading lol
buddy, skip the first 3
minutes.... its a waste of time..
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 :)
I LOVE MY BREEDING PAIR!! so many babies, always.
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 ?
lol dont keep them with a community. yet i see oscar, firemouth, some random african right?, and at least 3 other convicts in the tank. That seems like a decent size for now until that oscar is the size of a football
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
Hey could you take a look at my videos and let me know what you think
Great tank and great song. You gotta good combination going there and I had a tiger Oscar at one time and most people frowned upon it being in the community, but mine was a gentle giant swimming with convict fry, as I see yours is as well. Peace
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.
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.
i have 8 baby convicts in a tank now , will they all fight if they breed?
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💙🐰💙
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
thanks no bull shit with you i like that not like u need your nitrates pffff thats all bs cons are very cool again thank you...
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
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
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?
Well thanks I will message you if I get the urge to make another iN-dEPTH. Tanks!!!
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
he could be a honduran red point their similar to convict cichlids but little less agressive and more colorful
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)
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
No more
Thank You! Very good information, you have nice convict cichlid fish.
nice
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 :(
Sounds like you have a whole mix of feesh. I know why he gave you them babies too ;) They spawn like rabbits that have gone rogue. I would suggest bringing them to the LFS and letting them bring burden to some other unlucky soul. Now I'm not against the convicts everybody loves a good convict but they will not do well with the mixed lot. They are territorial by nature and will stress out others and may even lead to death
my convicts are almost 4 mths old they are chasing each other, are r=they getting ready for eggs
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)
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 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.
awesome video. your fish are nice. great information. thank you
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
Nice. Read the same thing on google earlier only difference is this is like reading a picture book.
do convict fry grow up to be juvenile delinquents ? ?
i got 4 of em if you need video i got 2 golds 1 electric blue jack dempsey and 1 regular
@ JD Smith. None in a 5 gallon. That is too small. Keep some shrimp or a few guppies in your 5 gallon.
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?
Thank you for heads up. I was considering a pair for a 35 gallon tank. That is more frye than I can handle.
Cool video! My pair just bred for the first time this month. At what stage should I remove the fry?
thank you, for a good video. can you tell me what PH, suits this fish ? What is your PH ?
And you will have many more soon if they are a cute couple.
Most wonderful information with most beautiful video :)
Thanks for the informational video. others ive watched have no commentary
I have a 200W heater for my 55 gallon tank. Best of luck!
You should make a fire mouth care guide too! please.
Yeah nothin like a little protein snack for the oscar!
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?
Do both males and females dig pits in preparation for egg laying?
Awesome info! Just purchased 2 in my tank and i love them
One of the easiest fish to get, keep and one of the best looking and most enjoyable personalities.
That is the way to go without babies haha
I don't got one of them but maybe someday :)
Very informative thank you.
Best video I've found on convicts!
convinced me to get these convicts doing my research first
one of my favorite fish , they are baby making machines
If I put a female convict with 2 angelfish would they fight ???
I very much doubt it and depending on the size of the tank, territory may be an issue. Every fish has it's own personality, but try adding them at the same time so they remain one big happy family :)
k thanks:) one more question could i keep any other cichlid with them.
Cichlids tend to be an agressive breed of fish, so I would be careful with what you add. I don't know your tank size so I can't really give any suggestions. I'm not much help here my friend so check around the internet and see what other folks are mixing together. Best of Luck!
Convicts will kill angelfish they are much to aggressive for angels.
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??
Yes! I have a Yo Yo Loach with my convicts and they get along fine
can they mix w oscar and red parrot
Can I keep them with a red tail black shark?
My convict eats everything that gets in the tank with it
that firemouth is looking for a fight.
She is quite a Beauty! Tanks!
Awesome video!
That would be a Firemouth :)
i have a convict he killed 5 cichlids
how many gallons is this tank?
Thanks for watchin man!
Best video out there on convicts
who's here from octonods
He read that off of Wikipedia