Help!

[Moose2010]

I have a 50 gallon tank with 4 female golden mbuna and 1 male and 4 convicts and 3 other blue ones and a pleco. When I was cleaning my tank the other day I found 11 baby golden mbuna and so I put them in a breeding cage in the 50 and they were fine all day and yesterday morning when I woke up I checked on it and there was only 3 in there, and those 3 where fine all day again and when I woke up this morning there is one 1 left!! Where in the world did the other 10 go?!

 

[Cecil2010]

Your other fish ate them

Either they sucked them through a hole (does not matter the size they can eat them through fish net). Or they jumped out of the cage and got ate

 

[SKB]

with cichlid babies, I would get a smaller tank to keep them in until they are large enough to put them with the others, or to sell. I know someone that breeds cichlids and they have 3 tanks. One for the parents, one for fry and one for when the fry get a little bigger but not big enough to sell or put back in the tank.

 

[Moose2010]

So having the fry in a breeder cage in the big tank with the rest is no good?

 

[SKB]

not if the other fish can get to them, which it sounds like they can or that the babies can get out.

 

[Moose2010]

It's weird tho I have had lots of babies in the breeder cage the same way as this and it has never happened before. But it wasn't cichlids either like guppies and stuff

 

[SKB]

guppies aren't as aggressive as cichlids and have a different temperament. Which may explain why.

 

[Moose2010]

Do u think I could put a red tailed shark in my tank with my cichlids?

 

[SKB]

I'm not sure about those.. I heard they are fast but cichlids are persistent if they don't like another inhabitant. I've heard that syndontis catfish are good with cichlids. A smaller Pleco like a bristle nose should be fine otherwise.

 

[Moose2010]

I have a Huge pleco in with them now he's like 8-9 inches and he does fine with them

 

[Nathanpopp]

I have a 50 gallon tank with 4 female golden mbuna and 1 male and 4 convicts and 3 other blue ones and a pleco. When I was cleaning my tank the other day I found 11 baby golden mbuna and so I put them in a breeding cage in the 50 and they were fine all day and yesterday morning when I woke up I checked on it and there was only 3 in there, and those 3 where fine all day again and when I woke up this morning there is one 1 left!! Where in the world did the other 10 go?!

Your stock is not good. Mbuna should not be kept with Sa/Ca.! Ever.

 

[SKB]

Your stock is not good. Mbuna should not be kept with Sa/Ca.! Ever.

I second that, I was only paying attention to the baby part. You may have issues in the future..

 

[Moose2010]

This is gunna sound stupid but what does sa/ca stand for? And I bought all the fish off of someone and not in a pet store they don't live in hard water and I'm not sure if they were born into soft water or not but the person I got them off said that they never added anything to the water and so I never either and the fish are healthy I have had them now for like 2-3 month with no problems at all except for the babies disappearing lately lol

 

[Moose2010]

So that being said I'm not 100% on the types either I typed cichlid types into good and that's what I came up with for the names

 

[Moose2010]

The one on the top is the one I called a golden mbuna and the one on the bottom is the one I called the convict and there is three others that I'm not sure of what they are I think the lady said peacocks maybe

 

[Nathanpopp]

This is gunna sound stupid but what does sa/ca stand for? And I bought all the fish off of someone and not in a pet store they don't live in hard water and I'm not sure if they were born into soft water or not but the person I got them off said that they never added anything to the water and so I never either and the fish are healthy I have had them now for like 2-3 month with no problems at all except for the babies disappearing lately lol

Ca = Central American
Sa = South American

You will have serious problems here in a couple months if you don't do something with the Africans. You'll wake up one morning with just one fish, because he killed off the whole tank.

 

[Nathanpopp]

It is a convict

 

[Moose2010]

So which one is it I should get rid of?

 

[Nathanpopp]

Well which do yo

 

[Nathanpopp]

Well which do you like more?