Quote Originally Posted by Ginevive
Wow; that is awesome. It is always so satisfying to see them spawn; it is the ultimate "I'm doing this right" feeling

oh it sure does!!!!

Quote Originally Posted by neilgolli
Very cool, as a kid I wanted to be a marine biologist and my parents never went into the basement, I'd sneak aquariums down there as often as I could. I had a ton of chiclids and actually used convict chiclids as feeder-fish for oscars and arowana. A small group of 3.12 in a 55 gallon literally gave me thousands upon thousands of eggs each year.

My fish dreams were quashed by my step father when the $400 electric bills (mid 1980's) started showing up.......

Good luck on eggs and babies....
i would think you'd need one pair to feed your other fish since they spawn like crazzzzzzzy. after all, convicts are the bunnies of the fish world LOL