Thanks for the help! I do, in fact, have a couple haps in the tank, so I am betting that you are right about that.
I will post more pictures as he develops!
I've got him in a little doodad to keep him safe for now:
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Originally Posted by emc7
Looks more like a pea**************** or hap to me. Are any of them Victorian Haplochromis? They breed at a very early age and stop breeding when they get big and pretty. As mentioned before, all those fish are mouthbrooders, so the egg was visible only long enough for the female to turn around and pick it up. I had a little yellow lab about 1.5" inches long carry exactly 2 fry to full term. Watch for chin lumps.
One fish I had "spontaneously generate" was a daffodil, after I removed all the 1 in long "juveniles", fry started turning up in the tank they had been in. So you can get fish from rocks and plants.
But yours really looks like a mouthbrooder cichlid fry to me. It could be a hybrid, because the most dominant fish will try to mate with anything that swims and prevent any other males from trying. Thats why mixed cichlid tanks other than bachelor tanks are discouraged. But the females usually prefer their own kind. It just doesn't look like a demasoni to me, but I usually don't see the fry until they get a bit bigger than that.
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