electric yellow... ciclids

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I never understood your question. I am with Mike on this. More explanation is needed.
 
I have breeding yellow african cichlids that are over running my 90 gallon tank..none of my monster fish will eat them..I have a rather large Arowanda..and a growing red tailed cat..gave a frontosa to a friend,and none of these fish will eat these cichlids. They'll tear up the feeder fish, and even when no feeder fish are present..they still won't eat them! Does anyone know of a logical reason of "why"?
 
p.s. to whom it may concern: Thanks for moving this thread into the appropriate place. I'm new to this particular web site...so any help is awesome.
 
My Os will eat my yellow lab fry in a second... But yes they have a habit of living more often then other types of fry do.
 
They probably don't recognize them as prey items. If you added yellow lab fry from the top of the tank, like you would whatever else you feed them, they'd gobble them up. Since your other fish see them every day and are used to their presence, the don't bother with them as food items and probably wouldn't unless they were really hungry.
 
Maybe they are friends? Small, little, yellow, tic-tac friends.
 
I read once that african cichlid fry can divert waste gas from digestion to their air sacs when still in their mothers mouth. As a result they don't need to go to the surface to grab a gulp of air. This allows the fry to be better survivors because they get to learn how to evade predators in the rock work before making any trips out in the open.

So by the time you see them, they may be just too fast to get caught/
 
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