So I'm cleaning my tank and surprise!

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dynasty187

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I found babies, I think the correct term is juveniles? Anyways I was pretty excited, so far I've only found one yellow lab and one other my LFS called "aurore pumba"? (black and cobalt stripes, male has yellow on fin)

I have a 55 gallon with 3 calvus, 2 yellow labs, 3 red tops, 3 red peacocks and 3 aurore pumba. I would like a couple more fish, specially these two. So I'm posting in order to find help. Is there anything special I need to do in order to insure they live? I have plenty of rocks and wood for cover/caves, any help is appreciated. thanks
 
I did the same thing the other day cleaning out my 55. What I did was put the two little labs about 1/4" long, and put them in a small fish breeders net. I will let them grow up to be 1/2" and put them in my 10 gallon tank. Then I will probably sell them or try and introduce the two to the 55, but I am having problems now with introducing new fish.
 
The nets a good idea, I have some fake grass plants that is good for the fry to hide in also the gravel is larger enough to create little hiding spots. IDK how old they're because I just noticed them earlier today, but they are only a couple cm in length. I bought all 14 cichlids as juvies about 10-11 months ago, so being the size they're I think the fry would look quite appetizing. I got even more rocks for the tank, so thopefully that will provide more spots to hide.

If I can get my camera to work I could take a few pics.
 
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I remember the first time that I discovered some babies, too, one time when I was cleaning my tank.And now, that same female is holding again, and this makes her fourth brood. It is kind of neat to see, when I go to feed the fish, they come swimming out of the rockwork, like one great big school of fish. They are blue zebra african cichlids. I have lots of rockwork in the tank for them to hide in. But, I am amazed that they seem to swim free, and no one seems to bother them. And I have some pretty large fish in the tank in along with them. Strange.
 
another thing that we have that seems to help, along with the floor to ceiling rockwork and plastic plants, is coral skeltons. They offer lots of nooks and crannies for the fry to hide in. We have some HUGE adults in our tank (125 gal) and a larger than normal fry survival rate. Right now we have perhaps 15 yellow fry of varying ages (3 broods) and over 30 julidochromis regani fry (3-4 broods) and mama yellow is holding again. We think there might be a new brood of regani also because we haven't seen daddy "pinstripe" much lately.

Our survival rate is soooo high we are thinking about getting a blue lobster to help with population control.
 
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