Stripping fry from Electric Yellow Cichlid

Quick little video of me stripping the fry from one of my female electric yellow cichlids. Got 15 baby fry. Feel free to leave comments below.

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Pets & Animals

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• cichlids
• cichlid
• electric
• yellow
• stripping
• fry
• babies
• mouth
• brooder
• afician
• fish
• tank
• aquarium
• lake
• malawi

[MarkyMark2900]

The reason you strip them is cause she will most likely swallow them. Or if she releases them in the tank on her own, 100% they well be eaten.

[MarkyMark2900]

What i do is i buy regular flake food for my cichlids. For the fry i get a zip lock bag and put a bunch of the flake food in it then i zip it closed and crush it until it is almost like a powder. then i put a little pinch worth in the breeder once a day or so.

[TheMelis80]

I pierced small little holes in a plastic container, put them in there which is floating in the mother's tank with a lid on it.

[MarkyMark2900]

@TheMelis80

I guess that is basically the same type of thing, just the breeder holder is nice and makes it easy to see the fry, feed them etc.. think they only run like 10 bucks.

[TheMelis80]

Do the fry need to be in a heated tank once stripped from mum?

[MarkyMark2900]

@TheMelis80

After i strip them i put them in a seperate breeder holder in the same tank which the mother came out of.

Gotta keep them seperate from the other fish as they will eat them right away.

So yes, they need to be in a heated tank.

[aRoadLesTraveled]

If you have a separate tank and an experienced mother fish, there is no compelling reason to have to strip the fry. I have one mother yellow lab who has now delivered 5 broods in under a year, ranging in size from 22 in the first to 40 in the most recent. She's very protective and as far as I can tell, has never eaten even one of them.

[toyomica]

If I took the eggs too early from my cichlid what will happen to the eggs?

[rexlinkfish]

either your hands are huge or that electric yellow is tiny

[mozaker]

Do you have to strip them? wont she let them go herself?

[TheMelis80]

I'l go check them out this weekend, from experience, what is the best food for them when they are this young?