First time breeder

[Whispering_echo]

heya ive just seperated one of my malawis from the rest into a breeding net thingy noticed she was carring well suspected and now confirmed but not shure bout what to do next she is about a week and a half two weeks since first noticed signs,

all comments welcome

[JoandWilly]

Its up to you what you do from here, different people go different ways, The way i do is, is at the 2 week mark i strip the fry from her mouth and raise them myself from there starting them off on baby brine shrimp. The other way is to put her in a tank buy herself with plenty of little hiding places for the fry when she spits them naturally, you'll also need the start the fry off on baby brine shrimp when you noticed she has spit them, but with some species you can get away with finely crushed flake food. The other thing with letting her do it the natural way is that sometimes they will keep holding the fry for 3 weeks plus and it can get rather hard on the female as she wont eat, but you still need to add tiny amounts of food after about 2 and a half weeks cause she will take it into her mouth but the fry will feed on it.

[smcoleman]

how do u strip the fry from the female

[JoandWilly]

its not hard to do but you get nervous and scared that you'll hurt the female, you pretty much hold her in your hand and open her mouth with a tooth pick or something and shake the fry out, i hate doing it but since all the females are in the community tank we kinda have to if we want a decent number of fry to survive.