I've NEVER seen a fish do this! 

She is telling you, give her her own male and she will give you lots of babies. What gift to you. This is a beautiful fish. Everyone will want one!

Aww the Paratalapia is being a great mama! : ) Very pretty fish with great parenting instincts! Love that you have a Madagascar aquarium! 👌

Brilliant to see this. Great Video.

remarkable never saw that

Ive been keeping aquariums & fish for decades & I have never witnessed this kind of behavior before. Kind of strange. Stuff like this really makes the hobby interesting!

Wow I have definitely never seen that before.

Fish knapped! Haha, that's so weird. Good catch

Excellent!!

That is freaking awesome to witness. Surrogating cichlid.

I have two of them because of your old video you made. They are Beautiful fish. Love there personality.

Please keep posting what's the end result PLEEEZ 👍 thanks for sharing

The first time I saw my EB Acara move their fry, I was horrified! Then i was like, "Oh....I see what you did there!"

What a wonderful world!✨

it's like you have a broody hen, but underwater....

Thanks

That’s awesome!!

Keep us posted to let us know if they continue to free swimming. It’s commonplace for many fish to even eat their own offspring so this is really unusual.

Very cool.

Interesting video, let's see how far this goes with the adopted babies!

very cool

Conservation - Even the Fish get it!

since you asked, this vid [George Mavrakis Super Amazing! Found A Lot Betta Fish, Goldfish & KOi Fishes in Rice Field Farm] talks about a breeder who routinely take the eggs away from bad parent discus and gives them to an ugly parent male discus who is a good father. apparently the beautiful parents are too high strung to raise their own babies. start the vid at 9:40.