Yellow Lab Holding...are eggs fertilized?

If there is a male lab with her, yes the likely are fertilized. I honestly would just let her be for at least a half a month. Then if you really want to strip her go ahead. (If she is getting beat up badly then go ahead and put her in a 10, but she might drop/eat her eggs from the move.)

BigPleco;2367286; said:

When a yellow lab is holding are the eggs fertilized or not? I have researched how to strip them, but can I do it right away. Also, can I just put her in a 10 gal and eventually the eggs will hatch? Basically, I just want to know if the eggs are fertilized, they are in her mouth.

Thank you!

Chris

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Yes, the eggs should be fertilized. You can put her in a 10 gal with no problems. I did that with my Jacob a while back when I had one. She held them for about 2 weeks. Labs may be a bit different in how they do things, but my Jacob held her eggs, and then held the babies for a while after they hatched. Once she released them though I took her out and put her back in the main tank.

Good luck

a 5" yellow lab?

hell ALL my labs are a only 2" - 3.5" what do you feed yours some super growth food?

i have a tank at home with about 12 or 13 yellows atm,
do yellow labs eat there young?

Ransom;2367746; said:

a 5" yellow lab?

hell ALL my labs are a only 2" - 3.5" what do you feed yours some super growth food?

i have a tank at home with about 12 or 13 yellows atm,
do yellow labs eat there young?

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I still have 2 males that are ~5-6 inches. You just need to give them a lot of time. (And they are in a 250 so maybe extra space helps too.) I hear some people had them ~7 inches, I can believe it since they keep growing till they die. (And 15 years of growing adds up.)

I've always had better luck letting them hold than stripping right away. It lets them get the maternal instincts down better too...altho at that size I imagine it's not her first time.

i just hope oneday i can get mine upto the 5" size or even larger, i have never breed my yellow labs yet but they have just moved into a 2.5foot tank from a 4foot with many many mixed cichlids so now 13yellows and 4fosso rosso cichlids