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    Hey guys, Over the weekend I stripped 2 of my wild caught kigoma frontosas and got a whopping 43 young babies, I also stripped my wc aulonocara chilumbas and got out 42 babies. They are now currently in my incubation tank until such time that they are big enough to go into my 1.2m tank with my other juvinile f1 kigomas and the other chilumbas which are 3 months old. Looks like I`ll need to set up another tank soon.
     
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    What do mean by "stripped"? Did you take them out of the tank? Just can't quite understand what you stripped.
     
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    "Stripping" is the term used by Cichlid breeders for catching females that are holding fry or eggs, forcing their mouths open and releasing the fry or eggs.
     
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    Thanks for the explanation. Helps a lot.
    Congrats then man!
     
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    Wow! That's a lot of little fishies :)
    @Reedfish : Why would you "strip" them? What's the point?
    Please don't mistake this as me questioning your fish keeping skills, I am genuinely interested in the answer...
     
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    nice man...are you going to sell?
     
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    I personally never did this when keeping Malawis.
    But people do it to get the fry in a more controlled environment. So for eg, if you have multiple breeding pairs in a single tank, the minute a female releases the fry, they will get eaten. If you strip her, you can put the fry in another tank. This way you wouldn't have to put the female in another tank, and then have problems re-introducing her.
     
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    Makes sense, but isn't that incredibly stressful on the poor girl? I suppose it's less harmful than the re-introduction.
    Would be interesting to see how it's done. Google, here I come...
     
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    Have a look on Youtube. There are numerous videos there.
     
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    @ Reedfish, thanks for explaining to the guys. I could not have said it better myself. @bmwkp, yes I do sell off the babies. pm me if you interested.
     
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    Hey guys I have put up some pics of my wild caught kigoma frontosa colony

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    pics of my F1 aulonacara and kigoma fry at 3 months old. Sorry for quality of pics, its hard to get these buggers to pose for pics

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    finally some pics of the F1 kigoma frontosas that I stripped from my wild caught colony, they are 3 weeks old.

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    @jairus - No prob. As I say, I never did it myself. With my Malawis, most of them would have been hybrids anyway.

    Nice looking fish.
     
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    do you still have fry left
     
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    Hi Jairus, wish my tank was ready to buy some of those fish from you. Would you mind keeping my posted as to how much you want for them and when your fish have little ones again?
     
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    @ hotdog, I always have a steady supply of little ones.
     
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    @jairus Great...how do I add you as a contact as a favourite when I want to check back with you on this site lol
     
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    @jairus .hi there new to the site.from the Southern Subs.starting off new tank as tried twice with Demasoni and twice the female and fry was eaten
    so now i want to try a less agressive fish
    would like buy fry if you have to sell
    thanks
     
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