Maybe not so strange

["Simone e Pierluigi Vicini" <psvicini@mdnet.it>]

Hi there,
            I need help this time understanding what's wrong with my
Borellii female.
This is the first time I raise fry in the same tank living the offsprings
with the female.
I noticed a good growth rate but I think problems are now coming up.
The eggs hatched 26 days ago and now the fry are getting bigger really fast
but the problems is the female. She stopped her parental care 10 days ago
and layed new eggs 5 days ago. The eggs died because I took out the male
several days before because it was dangerous for the fry. The female didn't
care about the eggs and she seems to be newly interested in her 22 days fry
but now she is acting very strange towards them, she doesn't seem to want
to eat or fight the fry but she scared them swimming towards them very
rapidly. I'm thinking that maybe she is starting defending her territory
also against this little fishes.Maybe this behaviour its not so strange I
was waiting for this to happen but I didn't think so soon.

Now the big problem is taking them out of this tank the fry are little,
fast, and too many for  me I need a good system to take them out. I cannot
siphon them out because they are fast enough to swim away from the plastic
tube. The tank in wich they are its also heavily planted, so it's really a
big deal.

What do you think?
Thank you in advance

Simone Vicini (psvicini@mdnet.it)