i have a tank of rift lake cichlids, mainly tanganykians, but i have a couple of victorias and i put a pair of cynotilapia afra "white top" from malawi in there a while back...

I think the female is brooding, she has a white mass in her mouth that she seems to be rolling around... sounds like text book brooding behaviour to me anybody add anything ??

Mate the most noticible thing will be her not feeding and the male hounding her a bit if you can look in her mouth you will see yellow/white eggs in her mouth, in about 10days ish you can see little eyes from the fry. Shine a torch on her when tank is dark and sometimes you can see through the thin skin and see the eggs

cheers for that pete... i never though to ask you ...DOH

probably a bit lol but only just found this site,,,,,,i have african cichlids and for about 10 days i was kidding myself that a yellow lab was holding,,,,,,it was'nt until i sat in front of tank and watched her and when looked in mouth could see what looked like little eyes,,,,week later put in seperate tank,,,,,looked one day hay presto six little fry moving around,,,,twisted pro nice advice,,,,,,er have a feeling you worked all this out by now,,,,,lo lol