Fish Fry

[sammbaxter]

So I have a 55 gal with three zebras, one yellow lab, one german red, a pleco, and a sulphur head, and I went to do a weekly cleaning and discovered this guy!
I'm assuming since it's yellow it must be from my red zebras or my yellow lab...I don't know how to sex my fish so I have no idea who they came from, and I also have no idea how to raise the fry. I don't have another tank to raise them so I have to keep them in my 55, and I have only counted three fry that have survived this far. It was four but I watched one get devoured by my german red ? so I bought a fake plant that's kind of like a ground cover for the fry to hide in to see if they survive through this. If they don't it's not much of a loss, and if they do, I probably won't keep them. I haven't really decided. Anyway I was wondering what they might eat or if they need any special care or if I should just let them go and see if they grow? Any advice would be awesome, thanks!

 

[dalto]

Yellow labs and zebras will hybridize so it could be from either or both.

If raising it is important to you I would move it to it's own tank and then feed it some small sinking food.

That being said, once mbuna start spawning they will continue on seemingly endlessly so I would at least consider leaving it alone.

 

[toddnbecka]

Almost certainly a zebra fry, cichlids won't crossbreed unless there aren't any opposite sex members of the same species. Usually 1 or a few fry will survive on their own, no need to feed anything different IME.

 

[sammbaxter]

Thanks for the help! I'll just let them go and see if they live. Thanks!