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by **Coach800** on Tue Dec 18, 2001 5:00 pm

Is a male zebra con less purple in color than the female??? Mine are about 2 inches

by **cichlidfishadmin** on Wed Dec 19, 2001 1:48 am

I don't know about that, but female convicts will have that orange-reddish color on bellies when they're getting ripe....

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by **oscar2001** on Wed Dec 19, 2001 6:05 am

Male p.zebs are colourfull especially the most dominant one, females are usually plain grey.
When they mate the female incubates the eggs in her mouth and will only release the fry after a week or 2, so they dont really eat during this time.

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by **cichlidfishadmin** on Wed Dec 19, 2001 12:07 pm

My bad, i thought you were referring to traditional "zebra" pattern convict

guess you were talking about Malawi P. zebra thanks to Tony for being on track

For an interesting research study check out: http://www.cichlidfish.com/oscars/images/uploaded/MalawiPzebra.pdf

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by **Adam** on Wed Dec 19, 2001 5:01 pm

I'm pretty sure he is talking about the common zebra convict, at least that is the way I read the post. "...male zebra con"

Just to clarify, you should refer to them as striped convicts... this is a more generally accepted name for them, and causes less confusion.

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by **oscar2001** on Wed Dec 19, 2001 6:15 pm

OOPS
Sorry Bloke I missread the post

I shouldnt answer when Im tired LOL

Yeah Joe is right about the pink colouring for the female and the males usually have a longer pointy dorsal fin.

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by **Adam** on Wed Dec 19, 2001 11:05 pm

LOL Tony... have you been sleep typing again?

by **cichlidfishadmin** on Thu Dec 20, 2001 1:27 pm

I guess we're all sleep deprived zombies

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by **oscar2001** on Thu Dec 20, 2001 3:37 pm

LOL
Ive been known to fall asleep at the keyboard on occassions. Maybe I should start drinking real coffee instead of Decaf

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by **cichlidfishadmin** on Fri Dec 21, 2001 3:44 am

My problem is I don't drink "any" coffee, I don't drink any "sodas", basically i'm not getting any caffeine.......NO WONDER I don't feel so good!

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