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holding kenyi
By: the_shazard Date: November 25, 2014, 3:27 pm
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I have 1 female kenyi cichlid in my mixed mbuna tank, as far as
i can tell the rest of my mbunas are male, but no other kenyis
in the tank, right now it appears that the kenyi is holding a
batch of eggs, is it possible that she mated with one of the
other cichlids, or is she just holding a batch of blanks. I have
a tank set up right now that i can put her in if i have to. Any
ideas are appreciated
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Re: holding kenyi
By: GaryJewett Date: November 25, 2014, 3:43 pm
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I have a female yellow lab holding eggs and I watched her mate
with a blue Zebra. I have 3 more yellow labs and she's the
biggest. I'm going to let nature take care of the offspring but
I would like 1 to survive to see what it becomes. I believe if a
female cichlid is ready to breed, any male will do
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Re: holding kenyi
By: TexMex Date: November 25, 2014, 11:28 pm
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I would recommend to strip the female of the eggs, you will get
better results. Plus the female would be better off and wont
lose weight or accidentally eat the eggs or another fish.
#Post#: 1777--------------------------------------------------
Re: holding kenyi
By: AKHeathen Date: November 30, 2014, 6:58 am
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well, you have a minimum of 2 weeks for successful fry, so give
her 4 days to a week and see if she holds or swallows. if she
holds, it is a min. of 2 weeks before she spits, so decide to
set up a spit tank/fry tank or whatever you are going to do in
the second week..... thaths the hazard of mixed tanks..... you
never know, she may spit some beautiful fry that develop in a
couple months, or you have a bunch of c"Christmas presents" lol.
one thing i have learned: you will never "rambo" fish, so might
as well plan your work, and work your plan,'eh?
#Post#: 1783--------------------------------------------------
Re: holding kenyi
By: the_shazard Date: November 30, 2014, 8:33 am
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I think I will move her to another tank. I have a 29 gallon
cycled right now with a hob filter. Is that to big and will the
filter suck up the fry
#Post#: 1784--------------------------------------------------
Re: holding kenyi
By: PaulMartin61 Date: November 30, 2014, 9:53 am
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The size of your tank will work just fine the_shazard.
I would put a small filter sponge on the intake of your HOB to
prevent any possibility of fry getting sucked up.
Good luck!
Paul
#Post#: 1893--------------------------------------------------
Re: holding kenyi
By: the_shazard Date: December 22, 2014, 6:31 pm
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Getting kind of ridiculous now, the kenyi had her babies and is
back in the main tank but now I have a holding yellow lab and a
holding red zebra with no where to put them. I guess I have more
females than I thought.
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Re: holding kenyi
By: the_shazard Date: December 22, 2014, 9:23 pm
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I think the only appropriate thing to do now is open a cichlid
specific fish store and call it APtropicals. Maybe i will even
start a YouTube series. Lol
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