Fry bullying their parents?!

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eyebrowz

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Hi all.

I bought a pair of Jags a couple of months back and gave them a 125 to themselves. They spawned immediately and 7 weeks on I have around a hundred fry in there with them, all around the 1.5cm mark. However in the last couple of days the fry have turned savage! There's always 4 or 5 nipping at the fins of both parents and it's obvious they're both distressed. They swim away and try to shake them off to no avail. One of them was nibbling at the lip of the male, who promptly swallowed it, gargled it around the mouth then spat it out into a corner.

Is this normal fry behaviour? Is there a danger of lasting damage to the fins of the parents?
 
Have you fed baby jags well? water parameters? If this keeps on continuing I advice you to transfer the parents or the jag's fry into another tank.
 
In the wild fry would never be with the parents for as long as we are able to keep them home aquarium.if you want to save some, start a grow out tank.the parents will kill them when ready spawn again.till then it will only hurt the parents and their bond

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Many cichlid fry in the confines of an aquarium will literally cannibalize their parents to death. It's time to remove the fry to another tank, to your LFS or to your local aquarium society auction, if you want the parents to survive.
I've had haitiensus fry eat gaping holes in their parents side, while the parents hesitate to shake them off.
 
Ive never heard of this before. Sounds like the fry are hungry. Thats just imo. Ive never personally experienced this though.

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I have flowerhorn fry about to reach an inch and they like to chew on the mothers bottom fins.

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Yea I seen this with my convicts. I left my male in with his fry and they keep on picking at his fins and his side. I seen him swimming weird and laying on the bottom, I thought he was a goner. I've move him since and now he's perfectly fine.
 
Thanks for the feedback all. Thankfully I've found someone willing to take them all off me for $60 so they'll be gone in a couple of days. Hopefully the parents will get back to their normal aggressive selves!
 
thats good, hopefully the parents arent too mangled up
 
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