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| Okay, I'd sell the other fry to a LFS and transfer pregnant fish to a different tank.
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| Only LFS i have is PetSuppliesPlus that won't evn take free fish
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| OK I finally gave up. I broke down the tank's rockwork to remove the babies from FOUR pregnant cichlids. Two were at the almost completely free-swimming stage, and 2 still had too much eggsack. I hope the younger ones make it. I put them in a 10 gallon with a sponge filter and airstone. I put a couple of birdnest coral skeletons in there for hiding places. I tried to force the non-swimming babies up into the corals to avoid being picked on. There is current in there around them. Will keep you posted on how many of the at least 3 dozen babies I have are doing.
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| The eggsac ones I returned to their mothers and they are currently holding them in the main tank. I worked out a system to easier catch the moms out so I don't have to destroy all the rockwork, just in one corner. I made a divier with some plastic netting/fencing and I can section off one corner after I chase them in the right area. The ones from my 2 Yellow Labs. are doing fine. Their are about 30 babies. All eating crushed flake food. I will try to remove the babies from my 2 Zebra mommies, one OB one red zebra, later this week. Hopefully they will be free swimming by then.
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sweet! pictures?
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nano reefs are fun
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 here you go
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| You can see the mommies were Yellow Labs. I have since added 15 babies from the red zebra. I missed getting the OB zebra's babies. She had already spit them out. I have one of her babies hiding in the rockwork in the main tank. I guess the others got eaten. And yesterday I saw one of the yellow labs. breeding again so in a few weeks I will have more babies.
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 better pic
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