mouth brooders like mbuna female cichlid keep their eggs in their mouth until they hatch. for a successful breeding you need to strip the fish from its eggs or let it spit them out naturally when they are ready. either way you need to know how to identify a female cichlid is holding eggs.
this video contains some tips to spot a female cichlid with eggs in its mouth showing a female Demasoni cichlid in different stages of holding period.
this video applies to all mouth brooders, espcially mbuna cichlids like yellow labs, demasoni cichlids and peacock cichlids
