We're Pregnant!

So this past summer, one morning, John came running up the stairs yelping that one of the cichlids was holding. I could barely understand him and I don't think I've ever seen him that excited. I've had pregnant guppies before but never cichlids and neither has he. After a couple of days and a bit of finagling, John was able to fit a 20g long underneath the 125 and transferred her there. Some people strip their holding cichlids but we're going to let her do her thing naturally. As far as any precautions to take, we're not aware of any other than the fact that John has been religiously testing the water parameters. So now we're just anxiously waiting for OB fry! Update: Since that batch of fry, she's been knocked up twice more. We've been stripping her after about 7-10 days. We also have an egg tumbler that we partially used once. Reason being is that every time we strip her, the fry were free swimming so we didn't need to use it. Recently, we set up a 30g upstairs in our bedroom for all the fry and it's been working great compared to the bare 20g. It's easier to maintain now that its not sitting on the floor. I know this is weird but you can totally tell that the fish are loving it and I swear they're growing faster. John notes the dates every time she gets preggo and it seems she does it once a month. I'm not sure how we want to handle that because that's a lot of fry.

The Mother

The Father

The Fry (a couple of different batches)

Close up OB Fry!