electric yellow's and mouth

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i think my electric yellow has fry /eggs in her mouth she looks
big in the mouth ....

if she does hav them in her mouth does she eat stilll or no...?
 
If you can get a good look check down her throat, even when my Johanni was only 2" I could see(barely) the eggs and soon fry in there. As for eating, depending on how many times your fish has spawned before, it probably will not eat. Once it has spawned a couple of times it will teach itself to eat while holding fry. Be careful not to change the water parameters to much or cause any stress to the tank as the female will eat the fry if she does not think it is safe for them. Also if you decide to move the mother before she releases the fry to a smaller safer tank or decide to move the released fry from the main tank use only water from the same tank they were spawned in or you will decrease the chances of their survival. Good luck and be checking in all the cracks and crevices, those babies will be tiny!
 
yeah she will propbably not eat and shy away during feeding time. or she might go after the food like normal at first then be like ohyeah and just back off lol
 
yeah well she had t eh fry in her mouth they were huge by the time i opened her mouth
she had ,had them for 3 weeks i think they're were 7 fry in her mouth when i opened her mouth nd they swam out and then i hvnt found them since in the tank i think they died or she ate them
 
yeah when i get them out they are huge too. I leave them in for quite a while and then strip her and put the fry in a grow out tank. They are easier to care for imp when they are bigger.
 
wow 2" yeah i bet she didnt have much in there. hopefully next time she'll be better at not eating them ;)
 
yeah well when i pulled them out i think she ate all of them except for one n then a few days past i saw one n then i think she ate it too so she went back to the big tank n now waiting for her to get a big mouth agen lol
my pbass baby is feeding on my rivulatus babies becausei wont be able to sell them because all my lfs have a ton of them already so yeah ill use them for my pbass..es :)
 
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