Why do you strip?

[jcunningham0295]

I usually strip my females to ensure they one recover quicker and two get fry.  Some off my females, for example my Callochromis won't really hold anymore so if I want fry when they spawn I need to strip them.

[Kaia]

Viable as in free swimming Ron. Sorry I wasn't more clear. From what I read evolution has allowed this fish to go without eating with little to no effect on the mother. So I was just thinking that she would spawn again faster if she were stripped and I guess that's really where my question was headed as to the practice of doing it. If you aren't trying to get a faster spawn turn around or if that's not in fact the result, I wondered what the purpose was. (In stripping during the egg stage) so say people that strip their fish see spawning again in 3 months. If I allow that fish to hold will that result in a 2 month spawn after fry release or 3 months from fry release. Does my question make sense?

[Ron]

IMO, 3 months from fry release and yes, the question makes sense. 

I think the main reasons people do it is to maximize the amount of fry (helping them avoid predation by tankmates) without having to move the female to a different tank/breeder net.

[African cichlid Keeper]

With my female yellow labs I let them hold for 16 days or more in the tank and then take the babies from them so the male doesn't pick on them when I put them back in the tank.

[Kaia]

I have a bet place on this over in cyphos lol

[mightieskeeper]

Good source of income and its easy to do.

Daniel this is exactly what I said when I seen the title

[danielratti]

I know right and that could of been taken both ways.

[Kaia]

No I didn't really take it both ways, because if you literally stripped I don't think it would be a good source of income lmao!

[Super Turtleman]

No I didn't really take it both ways, because if you literally stripped I don't think it would be a good source of income lmao!

Ouch.

Now me on the other hand...LMAO