SPITTING FRY

This morning when I was in my fishroom feeding my fry, brooding moms and Jewels I realized Stella - one of my Red Top Zebra fry had spit her brood out. It seemed so soon so I checked in my "Cichlid Diary". Stella was only on day 16 but I guess her hunger won out. I fed her and boy did she eat. It was only seconds after eating that she was gathering all her babies back up again. I had finished their water changes but I was just going to check their filters yet. Good thing I did too. I found at least half a dozen fry in the filter. They were fine and I did return them to mommy but I'm going to have to invest in a couple sponge filters. I've been putting that off long enough.