Isolating incubating female C.Leptosoma

Steve Wolstenholme wrote:

When I was a serious cichlid breeder with lots of tanks I used a
similar method to catch brooding females. The main difference was I
used very large plastic bottles attached to pull cords.

I had no way to know you have such a formidable expirience.

As to breeding and fry - having a lots of rock in setup, sometimes
I dream about some kind of breeding control medicine - I have
28 adults in 500 liters, and there are always 2 - 4 carrying
females, so I have lots of work to catch fry, because I don't
want to overcrowd the tank.

I don't want to catch brooding females. It requires a separate
tank, and, with mbuna, there are always serious problems with
introducing the female back to the tank.

Here are some photos, made a year ago, when fish were mostly
young:

http://www.milc.pl/baniak/

Now I have put a pair of S. fryeri in the tank, but two
of them in the whole tank of mbuna are too few to control
the fry effectivey.

In the other, Hap tank, this is not a problem, as there
are much less rocks and the adults (especially C. borylei)
have no problem catching the fry as the mommy lets them go.

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Best regards, milc, 500L Mbuna tank, 500L Aulonacara/Haplochromis tank