Query on breeding Apistogramma cacatuoides

[trevally]

Hi All,

Recently I saw a small nos of baby caca guarded by the mother caca in one corner of my 3ft tank. I had 2 pairs of caca in the tank with some 25 cardinal tetras. It's a heavily planted tank. After 3 days of spotting the babies, I didn't manage to spot any since yesterday. Could the mother ate up all the fry ? What would have cause that ? Hope to get some advice from you guys here into breeding apisto. I'm new to this hobby. Thanks.

[Panut]

cardinal tetras are aggressive eaters.

[FishSoup]

The mother could've been spooked by the cardinals,or maybe even by you searching eagerly for the babies.. the cardinals do eat fry too, but such a sudden disappearance of all the fry is probably due to the mother/father eating the fry, i think...