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This is my first African Cichlid tank and it’s a 75G that I have had it up and running for about 3 years now. I was going for mainly a show tank with one of each species to lower aggression and mainly males (obviously I know not all males now). About 6 months ago I switched my décor from gavel, fake plants, and fake decorations to sand, live plants, and rocks and my male Pseudotropheus Acie and, I know now, female Moorii Blue Dolphin started breeding off and on but nothing came of it. Then about 3-4 weeks ago I noticed some fry in the tank and about 4-5 of those have survived thus far hiding in small caves and cracks in the rockwork. I hoped this was a onetime deal but last night I noticed a whole new batch of fry, so this is beginning to look like a pattern here.
Anyway I have no desire to sell them since they are hybrids so I wanted to see what people’s opinions where here. Should I catch and flush them as fry, let nature run its course, get rid of one of the parent fish, or reduce feeding frequency until they are all gobbled up? I think they would look interesting as adult fish, but from my research on hybrids that is not usually the case.
Thanks for any advice.
Anyway I have no desire to sell them since they are hybrids so I wanted to see what people’s opinions where here. Should I catch and flush them as fry, let nature run its course, get rid of one of the parent fish, or reduce feeding frequency until they are all gobbled up? I think they would look interesting as adult fish, but from my research on hybrids that is not usually the case.
Thanks for any advice.