cookie Posted March 13, 2014 Report Share Posted March 13, 2014 I have a female electric yellow holding. I moved her into a tank with a small shy ellioti about 3cm, a very small julidochromis transcriptus 2cm and a ****feldi about 4-5cm. I have a back wall completely stacked with lava rocks. She has given me offspring before as she was holding when I purchased her. so my Question: will she spit with these fish in the tank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarenMick Posted March 13, 2014 Report Share Posted March 13, 2014 She will spit but I wold think that they will eat her babies you could always "strip" her when the babies are ready Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellows Posted March 13, 2014 Report Share Posted March 13, 2014 Yeh strip her after 14 - 16 days as [MENTION=7461]KarenMick[/MENTION] said the others will eat them and chances are you'll only get 4 or 5 compared to 20+ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookie Posted March 13, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2014 Cheers, I will have a go at my first strip, a little anxious any tips would be greatly appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angry Posted March 13, 2014 Report Share Posted March 13, 2014 Not to far from the mark... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarenMick Posted March 13, 2014 Report Share Posted March 13, 2014 hold the female gently but firmly so she cant wiggle in your hand and use your fingernail to hold her mouth open being careful not to open too far as you can dislocate her jaw then slowly pull her backwards in the water and the babies should be pulled out by the current. We strip our fish at 7-9 days and put them into a small container with an air stone but being that this is your first time i would leave it till about 14 days and they should be free swimming babies. Then put them into a small tank with water from the tank the female is in and add a sponge filter or at least an airstone and do 25% water change every 2-3 days. with the sponge filter it is a god idea to put it into a tank now so that it can get some good bacteria in it that will lessen the risk of it being a new tank and going through a cycle effectivly killing the babies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarenMick Posted March 13, 2014 Report Share Posted March 13, 2014 That's a good video from [MENTION=704]angry[/MENTION] due to being on a work computer I could see it was a video so I typed up a quick response never hurts to have more than one opinion though :-D Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellows Posted March 13, 2014 Report Share Posted March 13, 2014 Hold her in your wet left hand and using a 20ml syringe gently squirt water from the aquarium into her mouth into a dish and the fry should come out with the water Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
