Not eating and swalowed mouth

[deeda]

I was also going to suggest a female holding but the mouth area up to the pectoral fin looks pinkish to me or blurry in the video so a clear photo on both sides of the fish would be extremely helpful.

 

[Jexnell]

tlindsey do you know our resident African cichlid people are? Maybe we can tag them?

 

[tlindsey]

tlindsey do you know our resident African cichlid people are? Maybe we can tag them?

A201
RD.
D deeda
james99

 

[deeda]

Females will still produce and lay eggs and pick them up even without a male in the tank. She will eventually eat them.

 

[The Morning]

Obviously my first inclination is to say that it is a holding female. I have had Africans in the past produce eggs without a male to fertilize them. I had a Venustus drop eggs while swimming being chased by other fish in the tank, that were eating the eggs. I also had a very young female drop eggs once without scooping them up in her mouth.
I have never seen a female hold unfertilized eggs in their mouth but I would guess it is not out of the realm of possibility. Mbuna are rarely kept as solitary specimens in my experience so this behavior might not be seen often.

 

[kno4te]

Hard to tell with the video if it’s duck lips or some type of infection. Don’t know about the mouth brooding being a solo fish. Maybe duanes or RD. may know.

 

[Savethemall]

 

[RD.]

Looks like mouth brooding behaviour to me.

 

[Savethemall]

Its been 2 weeks now, she is still with a swallowed mouth, i think its even more then it was. She is eating but less then she was befor it happened, what do you think? shouldent she spit the eggs by now?

 

[The Morning]

Still looks like a holding female to me.