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It's taken a year or so and various mouthbroodings, but this is the first time I've seen her with freeswimming fry! Not great videos, but a proud moment!
My fry already free swimming and eating bbs but I notice once awhile they still go into the mummy mouth. Please correct me if I am wrong. Still new with this species.
Mouthbrooding is rather primitive in apistos. Behavior can vary greatly. Some A. barlowi don't ever mouthbrood. What you see is atypical. It could be that the female still wants to clean them, like apistos do with eggs/larvae. Also domestic conditions can lead to atypical behavior from what normally occurs in the wild.