yellow lab babies!

[new2rams]

about a month ago one of my yellow labs looked like it was on the brink of death.it did`nt eat for a long time and lost all yellow color.i thought this was the end of this fish.well...afew days ago it started eating.the yellow color was back.i could`nt figure out what the heck was going on.now today(to my surprise).i have seen 5 baby yellow labs swimming around my tank.so...i guess she was pregnant during the last few weeks.heres my question.so far i`ve seen the babies eating algea of the gravel and my intake tubes to the filters,and of some rocks.is there any food i should be buying to help these young fish?
they already have a nice yellow color to them,and some are bigger than others.i have 3 yellow lab adults housed with 4 bolivian rams,in a 75 gallon tank.they have all been together for months now.i feed them well hoping they won`t go after the new born labs.so far so good.how many babies do yellow labs have normally? maybe some have already been eaten?any help on this would be great.

 

[tjudy]

Welcome to the forum.

Congratulations on your new fry. Yellow labs (Labidochromis caeruleus ... if I spelled that right) can eat about anything small enough to get their mouths around. I suggest that grind up whatever you are feeding the adults, soak it so it sinks, and let them find it. You bolivian rams might make a meal of the fry though. If you want to save some you might want to move them to a small tank to raise them. In the future you can move the female lab to that tank while she is holding and let her spit the fry there so you do not have to try to catch little fry in a 75 gallon tank.

I am going to move this thread from this forum to a more apprpriate forum... it will get more readership.

 

[PsYcHoTiC_MaDmAn]

I feed my mbuna fry on the NLS 1mm cichlid pellets . in fact, I feed all my fish on this.

I dont bother grinding it down, as they work on the pieces by themselves. end up playing a from of "mouth-ball" (think 3d football) with them all after the pieces.

Ted, spellings perfect.