Sat Mar 08, 2008 9:58 pm GMT   Reply      

My female (I think) tilapia who has had fry in her mouth for the past week or so just let them out after I removed the male to another tank. He was beating up on her too much, so I took him out, and minutes later there were hundreds of babies in a school! I took away about half of them to put with the other hundreds of baby mosquito fish so that I could guarantee their safety. Now she's got the remaining back in her mouth and only 3, 3 inch clown loaches to defend them against. I've been waiting to see the tilapias succeed in this for a while now.

Sun Mar 09, 2008 1:01 am GMT   Reply      

That's cool. If you can get some pics up of her and the fry that would be awesome.

Sun Mar 09, 2008 1:12 am GMT   Reply      

I just got home and turned on the light to show my girlfriend, and there are none left as far as I can tell. Oh well! Thankfully I put half into another tank to raise them. I will have to wait till next time to get pics. They were sooooo cute! I'll get some pics of the ones I have as I'm about to stock a new tank and them, and the other fry will be the first inhabitants.