fish spit yesterday

[BigFishSmallPond]

hi! a couple weeks ago i told u of my holding cichlid well i checked on her this morning and she was still preggers i been checkin on her the last few days and was even going to try n get her in the breeding box (shes clever and i hate stressing her) well i go to feed tonight and sure enough i see her at the front of the tank with the other 8 cichlids.(something she hasnt been bothered to do while holding) so i knew right away. I looked at her throat and sure enough the tell tale signs of holding were now all but gone. SO my question is: do u think ANY fry would have any chance of survival in a 45 gallon tank with 9 cichlids? How small should they be if i were to try and see them? Is this an impossible task?

thanks in advance!

-ak

 

[tonydude]

Hi they might have survived. If youve got a lot of rockwork in the tank with plenty of hiding spaces they have a good chance. Mine bred a while back and i thought id lost all the fry but a few weeks later two popped out of nowhere. Even tho i searched the tank for them when the mother spat. They wont be so small you cant see but can take a lot of looking for. From my experience they tend to head for the pits the fish dig at the bottome of the tank. Good luck.

 

[freddyk]

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[BigFishSmallPond]

Ok do i need to be worried about sucking them up with the grav vac? =[

 

[freddyk]

Nope, if they can hide from the other fish your vac doesn't stand a chance!

 

[BigFishSmallPond]

haha k thanks =] Heres to hoping some survive.