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One of my yellow labs are holding for about 4 weeks now i was wondering when she will let them go? Also how can i strip her?

I guess not

Just take her out, prepare a bowl of your tank water, hold (not squeeze) her with your right hand, open her mouth gently with your left hand's finger. Dip her head into the bowl of water and the babies will come out. Check if any remaining babies by looking into her mouth with your finger still holding her mouth open...if no more babies, put the mother back into your big tank with her mouth facing up to prevent air staying inside her mouth.

And there you go..all babies in your bowl and give your love to them for their rest of their life.

The reason why people want to strip babies is that when the mother eventually realise them, if she is in a community tank with other adults, the babies will get eaten within days. At least a few if not all of them. Unless you got another tank just for the mother, otherwise stripping is the best way to ensure surviving babies.

Good luck

well i hate that way of doing it .............. just make sure u have tonnes of rock work for the babies to hide in ..... and then let realease them in the tank ...... that way only the strong,smart ones survivie

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Or you just put her into a trap one of the floating ones and let her reales them in there

"Or you just put her into a trap one of the floating ones and let her reales them in there"

Usually they wont release when they are stressed..and being in one of those floaty things are pretty stressful. If she does release, she might eat them, which means you would have to be on constant watch.

I have to agree with the 'natural' way of allowing them to hide in the rockwork and fighting for themselves. I'm sorry but no fry should be worth losing the mother through stress, either in the trap or by hand.