Baby Cichlids

[kennygater]

hi i have just seen some baby cichlids in my cichlid tank hiding in one of the caves, can i leave them in there because they would be immposable to catch. will the other cichlids eat them?

 

[tetras4me]

its complelty fine but just keep an eye on it for the time being

 

[vile]

lets put it this way if you want them take them out if you dont let them stay and get eaten! Trust me they wont survive welllllll i take that back how many other cichlids are there? The mother and father will protect them for a while then let them go on their way. I have some small snow whites with all the rest of my 3-5 inch cichlids and one just got eaten the snow whites are only about 1 inch long so they kinda sorta stand a chance but i have noticed that my jewel cichlids are the predators of these little snow whites. Good luck

 

[Boids-n-more]

You can try to sperate them with a fine mesh net. What i mean is section off that part of the tank top to bottom. You also might want to hatch some baby brine or buy baby brine frozen and use a eye droper to feed them. If your tank is crowded with other cichlids and you don't move or seperate them there toast. If its not overly crowded then a few might survive

 

[gaz guildford]

i recently had babies in my tank wich i left for nature to take its course only 1 has survived wich im notoverly fussed about

if you seperate them then be sure that you have somewhere to rehome them if your tank gets over crowded