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Females often swallow their eggs because they are stressed in their environment. They are also known to do this with their first couple of spawnings.
In all honesty I dont know how successful you will be breeding your blues in your tank. I had 1male and 3 females in a 6ftx2x2 and the male was such a bully! They were in with a couple of other african cichlids and this male had 3/4 of the tank to himself. In a tank the size you have the males territorial behavior can only be magnified, causing everything else in the tank a whole lot of stress IMO.

Good Luck with them.

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I was breeding E. blues in a three foot tank. Some ppl can breed fish easy and other cant. I was breeding the blues like crazy and my mate couldn't breed 1. And the same goes for electric yellows, I could never breed them but he could. I dont know why but I know this has happened to plenty af ppl

Josh

thanks alot but i got dese blues from a fwend n he breed it. i dunno y i cant breed it n plus i use the sera fishertant or wateva its called

its way oeverstocked. 6 full grown electric blues wont fit in a 3ft tank. think they aint breeding coz the tanks too small & too crowded.

one of the male breed wif one of the female but den wen the nxt dai i saw it the mouthfull was gone. how come?

Sometimes it does happen, the females just swallow the eggs. Either the female can't stand not having food or she just don't like to hold the eggs.......just keep waiting and watching...since a female has been holding eggs means your water is okay for breeding, you are almost there

finally the blues start breeding i am wonder should the male breeed wif the rest of the female? n do i need 2 add anyfing 2 make da female nt stress put cuz the color of the female got darker
i feed my blues frozen brine shrimp a few times n now wen i feed colorbits they dun eat it. they just put in their mouth n split it bak out. how should i feed them..?

[span class="edited"][Edited by Lindy 2004-06-29 08:01][/span]

You don't need to do anything for the female but to wait for 3 weeks to decide whether u want to strip the babies out or if u have a separate tank to move the female to it to let her spliting the babies out naturally.

Only feed frozen food and high quality pellets so that your fish is happy all the time !

I personally like Sera, Sera Granu Green is what I use for main daily feeding.

i feed them colorbits n it is highly nurtious. is it a high quailty granu? how come the female shallow the eggs?

yea i just change around 25% of the water 2dai. i dun fink its over stock. i mostly change water once a week

Most of the time why will only show territorial behaviour when there are other males to compete on breeding...otherwise they are not that bad compare to those real baddies..

Im no expert, i can't breed my'n but i think it would be good to ge 2 males and 6 females if you really want to breed them. The reason being that one male will be dominant and breed with the females while the other male will keep the dominant one on his toes(fins). This is also good because the dominant males aggression will be directed at the other male instead of the females. This has worked for me while breeding other types of cichlid but not yet for electic blues.

i got 3 males in there n 1 of them has really less colour should i put him in an different tank n just leave 2 males wif 6 females

There will be one dominant male that will make any other males cower in a corner. I didnt mention that I originally had 2 males in my 6x2x2 and had to take one out as it was being bullied.
So I would have just one male and the rest females. The male will spend alot of time making any other male stay in hiding (which takes away energy spent on spawning)It wouldnt be a very pleasant environment for the less dominant males and it will continue until the other males are killed or removed.

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Before you criticize someone walk a mile in their shoes. That way you're a mile away and you have their shoes.

alright den. you if i have frys in the mouth n i wanna strip it how do i kno is dere more fry in the females mouth? n what should i do afta i strip the female cuz it gonna be all stress

one of my male breed wif 1 of the female 2dai. will he breed wif the rest of the female? hope he will

can sum1 help mi out here plz

Yes the male probably will breed with the other females in the tank.
Personally I have never removed the eggs from a holding female. I have, after about 3 weeks, removed the holding female to another tank where she has released the fry and left her with them for a week or so to build up strenght again. As soon as she was put back in the main tank she was harrassed by the male again.
The first time I took a female out of the main tank she swallowed her eggs. I've also seen females spit eggs early in attempt to get some food. Dont worry though, she will get the hang of holding onto her eggs

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Before you criticize someone walk a mile in their shoes. That way you're a mile away and you have their shoes.

i change my water once a week and for sum resons i dunno y my bristle nose die so weird is it better 2 make da fish fat b4 feeding or just make it normal? beacuse wen i feed my fish dey keep on eating n eating n neva stop intil i stop feeding dem

You can breed blue to blue but the fry won't live! Good luck