I have raised quite a few batches of SA cichlids, and although they sometimes will eat their babies, I have found that if they are not stressed, they will usually raise them on their own with no problems. Having said that, the farmers who raise them by the thousands always remove the eggs and hatch them out separated from the parents. They get a larger amount of babies that way. But you have to ask yourself, what are you going to do with 500 babies? Getting rid of 50-100 is difficult enough. In the future, you should try letting the parents raise them and see what happens. When my cichlids breed, I don't do anything special for them, including food. The parents do all the work, just make sure the babies can't get sucked into the filter. I rescued hundreds from my canister filter before I got a sponge that fit over the intake.
red bay snook eggs
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