Breeding Pair of Bangaii's - WOO HOO!

[i have crabs]

thats good just keep an eye on him untill you can see little eye's looking at you.

[Myka]

Well his mouth is only getting fuller! I'm assuming they are growing...? I haven't been able to see whether they are eggs or little fish yet though. I think he's somewhere around day 16-21.

[fatpuffer]

Can you strip the eggs or fry similar to mouth-brooding cichlids. I used to have some yellow labs (electric yellow cichlid) and I stripped the fry after a few weeks.

Not sure with the sw version though.

Js

[Myka]

Strip them? I'm assuming you mean get them out of his mouth? I couldn't do that to him!!! Poor guy.

[fatpuffer]

I found with my yellow lab cichlids, i had close to 100 percent survival rate after I stripped. If I let them spit in the tank, I probably had lower than 10 percent due to fish eating them.

Jonah

[Myka]

How do you do this? Catch the fish, squish his mouth so he spits, then put him back?

Sounds like rape in a dark alley to me...poor fish!!!

[i have crabs]

cant see that going well with a cardinal but what do i know about raping fish?
you should see little fish about the 4 week mark