im sticking to my ID... L. Fullerbourni
If you want to keep the babies to sell or trade or give away, get yourself either a net breeder, or a 2.5 to 5g tank, put a new filter in your established tank and move the established filter to the new one, it will provide the bacteria you need you can put a rock or something in there for security, but do not put substrate in the bottom. After about 2 weeks after you noticed she was holding, pull the female and place her in either the net breeder or the tank whichever you decided. keep an eye on her, within a week she should start to spit the babies to look for food then suck them back up again. at this time, add a little flake food so she can eat. pretty soon she'll spit them out and leave them thats when you can take her out and place her back in the main tank. The babies should be almost ready to eat solid foods at this point. Look to see if they've lost their yolk sack, if its gone, get yourself a baby eye dropper or small syringe and some "first bites" or some finely crushed flake food and mix with a little water suck the food up with the dropper, and squirt the food near the babies. Do a 50% water change every couple of days and within a few months they should be big enough to go into the main tank or do whatever you want with them.
Or.... a quicker way would be to get a net breeder AND a small tank. Put the female in the net breeder in the small tank, once she starts to spit them, she's ready to be stripped. Take a toothpick, and gently open her mouth tipping her forward over the net breeder, dip her head in and out and the babies should start to fall out. Once theyre all out. leave them in the net breeder and let her recover in the main part of the small tank for a couple of days until she's eating again before she goes back to the big tank. This way lessens the risk of her being hungry and eating some of the fry, which does happen sometimes.
Good luck
