Help identifying these cichlids

[ManInAHat73]

I just got these fish with a free fish tank. Does anyone know what type of cichlid these are?

Sorry for the bad picture, it's the best I could get at the moment.

 

[taylorodw]

They look like Convicts.

 

[ManInAHat73]

Here is a better picture.

 

[taylorodw]

Yep, now they look even more like convicts

 

[ManInAHat73]

Lol. Well I have a butt load of them. 15 to be exact, with the addition of fry today and a couple more of the females look like they are about to spawn as well. A lot of them are going to the LFS tomorrow (if they'll take them)

 

[taylorodw]

Convicts breed stupid amounts. Haha. Good luck, I've never kept them.

 

[ManInAHat73]

Well, I just counted and I have 18, plus about 30 fry so far. I'm going to return 14 of them to the LFS. And I found out that my angel doesn't have fin rot, it was kept with 18 fry and attacked to no end. I hope the melafix and salt help him. Thanks for the identification.

 

[Etunes]

Convicts breed like rabbits. It is not uncommon for people that own them to use there babies as feeders, just like guppies.

 

[ManInAHat73]

That'll be the plan, once I get all these other tanks set up. Talk about Multiple Tank Syndrome, I'm getting 7 different tanks this month. It's going to take a while to set any of those up. I may raise the fry and sell them to the LFS to help out with it.

 

[Etunes]

Be careful, because the fish will spawn really fast. And since they do the fish shop will only take so many before they sell them.

 

[ManInAHat73]

I know. What they won't take I'm going to try to sell on here or use as feeder fry.

 

[mermaid8]

look like convicts to me also...