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Old 05-19-2007, 05:40 PM   #1
Cichlidsrule
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Exclamation Female giving birth....

....but it's been a half-hour, and there's been only one fry.
She'll sit still for a while with clamped fins, a tan gravid spot (when the sun shines through it), and then she'll suddenly dart around the tank for a few seconds and then go back to resting. The way her fins are clamped and the way the male's following her around makes me think that there's still more fry to come.
This is a five-gallon tank with a rather spindly plant that looks like hornwort (I can't remember what it's called). The pH is normal, and the male is acting fine. I didn't move the female or do anything to stress her out. Her last batch of fry gave six.
Any ideas? Is this just a really long birth, or did she abort her fry for some reason?
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