ugghhh to many convicts

[brian1973]

Ok many of you know I started breeding cons to feed to my Oscars, Well since I needed my 10G for a new batch I took all the 1/2in fry out of the 10 and dumped them into the oscars 90G, that was about 2 weeks ago, he chased them a bit but never really showed any real enthusiam for this, I figured some would survive a while since they have some decent hiding places and some java moss as well. Well today I did a head count on the 3/4 to 1in ones (they grew fast), I cant be sure how many I added but I still have about 20 in the tank, swimming WITH the oscar, yes it has appearantly adopted its food. Now the question is what to do with the rest of the fry I have..

Appearantly fish can communicate and have reached some sort of peace agreement....

 

[big54bob]

Easy get a gulper catfish. They eat anything they can catch.

 

[brian1973]

adding more fish is not an option Bob..lol..

 

[mistercoffee]

How about you fry them up yourself?

 

[brian1973]

lol...they are a bit small for that..lmao

seriously I think I will see if I can work a deal with one of the local LFS.

 

[big54bob]

 

[brian1973]

make my own frozen food...lol..no cant do that.

 

[Orion]

I have heard stories of peoples O's adopting 'food' before. More or less, you just gave your pet, it's own pet .

Good luck trying to get rid of the little fellas!

 

[big54bob]

make my own frozen food...lol..no cant do that.

You know you want to!!!!*SUPERSMIL

 

[brian1973]

I have heard stories of peoples O's adopting 'food' before. More or less, you just gave your pet, it's own pet .

Good luck trying to get rid of the little fellas!

great now I have to support his/hers pets also..lol

 

[unwritten law]

I think the oscar will get hungry enough to eat them.. have you thought about weakening them before putting them in his tank?

 

[Redwood_Rider]

They will eventually become food IMO.

 

[brian1973]

well the convicts in with the oscar are all still there, even with no feeding for a few days in Feb. he still wont touch them..now they are about to breeding size so now I am appearantly in the convict business. Hopefully I have enough predators so if they do reproduce the catfish will take care of them.

 

[Orion]

Hopefully I have enough predators so if they do reproduce the catfish will take care of them.

Didn't you say the same thing about the Oscar???

 

[brian1973]

Yea the oscar isnt even attempting to feed on them. I have a coupel striped rapheal catfish in the tank as well, I found an LFS that will take all I can give them so I may take most out and get rid of them, maybe leaving a pair in the tank to see if new fry will be eaten and give a self sustaining live food source.