Babies abound!! Here are some peacock cichlid eggs we found and incubated.View attachment 90658
Here are some peacock cichlid babies that just started free-swimming:
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And we have a guppy that is about to BURST!
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Belly gets super plump, dark gravid spot (black spot towards anal fin in the pic) gets bigger, sometimes you can see the eyes of the babies in the gravid spot. You'll notice she looks rather "boxy" \___/ type of shape, and that tells me the big day is almost here!How do you know guppies are pregnant?
How do you know guppies are pregnant?
That's a very cool contraption for the eggs, I was wondering how people protect eggs if they are laid in tanks with other fish. Good to know!
Odd that the female would spit them out
They are milking the female, taking the eggs from her before they are developed.Normally he gets them out of the mouth of the cichlid after about a week or so of it holding them
They are milking the female, taking the eggs from her before they are developed.
This is not something I recommend because fish learn from each other. Baby fish learn to be good parents from their own parents. If you artificially rear baby cichlids and they don't get parental brood care, the babies lose the knowledge and quite often become egg eaters or spit the eggs and eat any babies.
It happens all the time with angelfish from Asia. The eggs are separated from the adults as soon as they are laid. This encourages the parents to lay again and provides more eggs to hatch and grow up. Unfortunately the baby angelfish have no idea how to look after eggs or young so when they breed, they eat their eggs and young.
There is no reason to artificially rear any cichlids unless the parents die or can no longer care for them.
***UPDATE***
Both my guppy (pictured above) and black molly had babies today AT THE SAME TIME!! It was crazy. Here are some pics!
You can see the first two I found when I looked into the little breeder!
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32 guppy fry and 12 molly fry! PHEW!! Anyone need any guppies...heh..heh....