Ap macmasteri babies!

[rachel]

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My Ap in the tank just have babies! Its so cuteee! But! What should i do with the babies when they grow up? It will be too many in the tank.

[IrvineChen]

Can pass some to us if you wanna reduce your bio load

[leghair]

I can adopt for some fee.
Gt 2 ft tank ready hahah

[rachel]

yea! update again when they grow up! I hope the numbers don't decrease over the days

[IrvineChen]

But we will pray the number to increase.. haha

[14litre]

I am not familiar with cichlids


For these species, are the babies carried in the adult mouth when they felt the presence of predators?

In the first pic, i guessed that's the adult pair and not babies?

Do you have a close up on the babies because i cant seemed to locate it.

[mikeleech]

Nope, the female will protect the fries

[14litre]

Nope, the female will protect the fries

Thank you! Looks like the fries are almost same size as guppies fries. Nice!

[rachel]

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Here is the mother fish with two of the babies. There are only four babies left now
At least there are some rather than none.

[huhengyi1986]

Any other fishes That will feed on the babies?

[rachel]

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Left three babies and they are growing well! However the mother fish has been missing for almost a week I dont know where is it. Its just Missing in Action!
Not sure if it died somewhere at some corner or its in breeding mode again. I hope its not dead

[rachel]

Any other fishes That will feed on the babies?

There are only boraras and the two apisto in the tank. So I doubt they will feed on the babies. The female will guard the babies. But now the female is missing in tank.

[seudzar]

The female apisto may be guarding her eggs.

[rachel]

Have not seen the female for about 2 weeks. Do you think it died somewhere?

The female apisto may be guarding her eggs.

[barmby]

Do you have dither fish in the tank? most likely they will come out unlike catfishes , that's really shy

[rachel]

Do you have dither fish in the tank? most likely they will come out unlike catfishes , that's really shy

The other fish is only boraras which are much smaller than them and one oto. During the first batch of babies, the female went into hiding too but i still see it swimming around once in a while. But this time, there is totally no sight of her. Will this kind of fish jump out of tank? If it really did, then i think my dog might have eaten it. (she ate two of my fish before, found one in her mouth!)

[barmby]

Yes. Apistogramma may jump but it occurs in rarity.

[seudzar]

Check the tank, put your hands into the tank and search

[barmby]

Huh! got babies inside. the adult might eat the fries if the parents are freak out. cichlids behaviour 101

This is the set up.

[seudzar]

Do it slowly... Should not affect. In the wild, there bound to be disturbance in the water, and it cannot be that the parents eat up the fry every time there is a disturbance. Just do it slowly.