mouth brooders

Hi guys! New to this forum. I have an electric yellow cichlid who’s been holding for the last 3 days. I can see she’s very hungry but just won’t release the babies. I have seen YouTube videos of people opening their mouths and letting them out but not sure if that’s the right thing to do...

i was wondering if my sunshine male will ross breed with my lemon jakes? my male sunshine has 4 female sunshines to choose from, and i have 9 juvenile lemon jakes around 2 inches. i can tell i already have one forsure male and another i think is starting to colour up. i was just wondering in the...