Fire mouth cichlids fry keep them in or take them out

Tonyo373

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Today I came home from work to see a bunch of fry and my fire mouth cichlids guarding them I'm not sure if I should pull them out or keep them in there with some jack Dempseys and Texas cichlid and some jewels can some 1 give me an opinion on this
 

Warborg

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In my experience with first time breeding cichlids is the fry will shortly disappear. They(parents) improve with experience.

I guess I'm suggesting that you remove them. Watch the parents closely afterwards. I did this to Jaguar cichlids and the male beat up the female.
 

Tonyo373

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In my experience with first time breeding cichlids is the fry will shortly disappear. They(parents) improve with experience.

I guess I'm suggesting that you remove them. Watch the parents closely afterwards. I did this to Jaguar cichlids and the male beat up the female.
Thanks for the heads up I was thinking about taking them out just so there's a better survival rate
 

Tonyo373

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How is this turning out?
It's been crazy I ended up pulling them out cause every chance the dempseys had they would take a few with every pass.i had trouble pulling them out cause of plants and the parents had many pockets and caves to hide them. I was able to get about 100 of them but my electric blue acara has about another 100 plus my golden sevrum are laying to....
 
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