Fishyfanatic
Aquarium Advice Addict
When I first started keeping Africans I wished that they would someday breed. Well, now they are popping out every week. We have a batch of 29 cobalt fry in the 29 gal tank that are two weeks old. A mystery African just released 9 fry in the 10 gal tank tonight. And the cobalt is now holding more fry! How can I make it stop? We don't have enough room for these babies. The cobalt was evidently holding the fry for quite some time. As soon as we acclimated her into the QT, she released them and they were already blued in coloration and a decent size. The mystery African released them as she was in the bag being acclimated into the 10 gal. The fry are alot smaller and kind of transparent in color. Now the cobalt has the same large bulge in her mouth and I think it's fry, not eggs. For some reason we can't tell when she is holding eggs. It seems like we can only tell when they hatch to fry.
Is there any way to stop the breeding? The ones that we really want to breed are the Aceis or Labs but they aren't budging. It's kind of odd because there is one male and one female Cobalt. They are breeding like crazy. Yet we have 4 Acei's (3 F and 1 M) and they aren't doing ANYTHING. The labs are the same ratio. And zip, ziltch, zero, nothing. Can someone help?
Is there any way to stop the breeding? The ones that we really want to breed are the Aceis or Labs but they aren't budging. It's kind of odd because there is one male and one female Cobalt. They are breeding like crazy. Yet we have 4 Acei's (3 F and 1 M) and they aren't doing ANYTHING. The labs are the same ratio. And zip, ziltch, zero, nothing. Can someone help?