Menagerie
Aquarium Advice Addict
Last night my fiancé and I took out the Lemon Yellow from the 80G cichlid tank and placed her in the infirmary tank, so she could have her brood in piece. All was well last night, we had no reason to expect problems—we had done this before with the P. socolofi and the water used was siphoned from the 80G tank. No problems were seen this morning. When we returned this evening, she had spit out all the fry (still attached to egg sacs) and she was barely breathing and her mouth was open. My fiancé grabbed her out of the tank and brought her to the 80G tank and pushed water over her gills, she was unable to close her mouth. She got weaker over the next few minutes and was put down. We do not know how long the fry were without fresh aerated water, since that is the mother’s job and having no way to tumble them, they were put down.
I have spent all evening trying to figure out what went wrong and have only found a small reference to cichlid lockjaw. Is anyone aware of this problem?
This is very upsetting, since I know we will be pulling another mother-to-be out of the tank sooner-or-later. My fiancé comforted me with talk of evolution—how the mouth brooders lower their throats and she may have dislodged part of her anatomy. 8O This may be the case, but I have read many articles on cichlid breeding, and am in the midst of The Cichlid Fishes: Natures Grand Experiment in Evolution by GW Barlow and I have NEVER seen any mention of cichlid lockjaw.
Please provide any information you may have.
TIA--Meghan
I have spent all evening trying to figure out what went wrong and have only found a small reference to cichlid lockjaw. Is anyone aware of this problem?
This is very upsetting, since I know we will be pulling another mother-to-be out of the tank sooner-or-later. My fiancé comforted me with talk of evolution—how the mouth brooders lower their throats and she may have dislodged part of her anatomy. 8O This may be the case, but I have read many articles on cichlid breeding, and am in the midst of The Cichlid Fishes: Natures Grand Experiment in Evolution by GW Barlow and I have NEVER seen any mention of cichlid lockjaw.
Please provide any information you may have.
TIA--Meghan