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my baby...RUSTY
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Ok, here's the thing....most of the googling I have done...It said that Red Zebras will mate with an Orange Blossom peacock cichlid if conditions are right.....and this evening our male Red will not let any of the other fish by our smaller O.B....Hubby said she has been hanging out by the left middle side of the wall of the tank all day...(she ate yesterday, but not this morning)...so he was getting ready to feed the cichlids and I pulled up my trusting rolling chair so I could make sure the O.B. didn't eat...and sure enough she didn't...So then I again got my trusty magnifying glass...I looked in her mouth and she has some kind of orangish ball (free flowing,not a cichlid pellet, because it would have been dissolved by now..or is that wrong)...I can't get a picture because it would be too blurry...it looks like she has a turkey neck (starting to brood)...she looks the exact same way our female lab did when the lab started to brood...(still waiting for the lab to spit out her fry,I can see eyeballs and bodies in her mouth)...So is our female O.B. holding......sorry can't get any pix they would be really blurry.....
 
yep, i'd say they're holding, esp if you saw orange balls.. are you planning on moving her to a fry tank? hmm
 
No, sorry xOxOXo.....but we do have lots of hiding places in our 80 gallon....our little lab fry has been in the tank for 3 months and growing like a weed.....and still waiting for mama lab to spit out the new fry she has......everytime we have a cichlid holding somehow the female goes back to eating the next day and our (supposed) usd has a bloated belly the next day also....and then his stomach goes back to the same size the following day....HHHMMMMM...do ya think he is eating the fry before we actually see them........thank you for the answer......aaaahhhhh more babies....
 
Well, i wouldn't count the possibility of the fry being eaten. Yeah that's very possible but if it's not their 1st or 2nd brood, then they really shouldn't be eating them unless they believe they're in some sort of danger? Although if you really want to keep all your fry a fry tank would help yup.. now i don't know what to do with my metriaclima greshakeis lol. or let nature take its course and if they do have eggs just leave them to take care of it in the tank... don't expect all or any fry to survive.. just watch them over and see how it progresses.
 
Just give it time...it will tell.
 
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