Prevent Breeding

[Aries]

I have 3 Yellow Labs in a 30G (along with 3 Zebras, 5 SAE and 1 Pleco) and they are breeding like tomorrow is doomsday. There are 2 females and 1 male.

The 2 females JUST got finished giving birth to 19 baby yellow labs! Now one female is holding AGAIN!!!! I do not have the room to raise them until they are able to be sold to a LFS. Is there any way to prevent this from happening (other than removing the fish to another tank (ie move the male) - this is not really a possibility). I really dont want the babies to become food for the other fish either. :sad

Is there anything I can do????

Thanks!!!!

[djlen]

How in the world did you ever fit 3 Labs in a 30 gal. tank? I've got a Chocolate Lab who weighs over 90lbs. and I'm sure she'd protest if I ever tried to put her into even one of my 55s.
And you gotta be lying about the Zebras.........no waaaaaaaay!!!!

Len

[Aries]

Actually it's a very big thirty gallon tank. :D

I had the zebras imported from Africa.

Any ideas on how to stop them from breeding?

[Aries]

I'm sorry moderators this should be in the cichlids. Please move if you find this. Thanks.

I'm an idiot :D

[JCason]

I say you just fix the males, them horndogs :D Seriously the only way I know to get them to stop breeding is get all of them the same sex.

[TKOS]

Unfortunatly that is the way of the cichlid. The non stop party fish. Like trying to stop guppies I guess, have all of one sex. Can you trade some of the fish into the LFS?