ok well i have run out of places to keep my convict babies....is there anybody living in sydney or around sydney who would like probobly close to a hundred convict babies...or want to take a few of them off my hands...PLEASE....im dieing theyve even started eating there parents...its really cruel and i cant watch them attack them...and also the parents are sick and the medication im sure will kill all there babies so i NEED to get rid of them....they are probobly around 1cm and over so they arent big some are smaller and some are larger....
or any ideas on how to get rid of them....without killing please...
anyhelp would be great im desperate....
thankyou
~jack~
Can you not find a plasic tub or a kiddie pool to act as a temporary holding until you can find homes for them? A larger space will reduce territorial aggression. I would take them off your hands, but I am on the other side of the planet. You might want to try local schools to see if they want some classroom pets. Honestly, your best bet is to offer them as feeder fish. Think of it as recycling as opposed to killing them off. It would not be a waste and I am sure local hobbyists would snap them up in no time. I hope you are going to consider for the future from now on about what you are going to do with the offspring before a situation like this occurs again.
Best of luck to you
Yea you need to offer them to other fishkeepers or try giving them to an LFS. Convicts breed like rabbits and require TONS of space. If you're not equipped for this kind of situation, then you need to make sure you don't have a male and female together. Thankfully, mother nature has made this easy to discern.