So my yellow lab has a clutch of eggs in her mouth. Only problem is there is not another lab in the tank. Is this a species that will lay eggs and care for them even if they are not fertilized? If so will she eventually realize they are duds and spit them out? I don't want her to starve. I do have one other mbuna species in the same tank, although I am not 100% sure what exactly it is.

I have heard of mbuna interbreeding. Is this true? If so, can these two breed?

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By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
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You may have hybrids on the way. What are the other African Cichlids in your tank? How long have you had the Yellow?

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Those are the only two africans. I also have a blue acara and a green severum but I do believe they are both south american. The photo above is the unknown BTW. Do you know what it is? I'm thinking its either a wild strain red zebra male or a socolofi. I have had the lab 8-10 months.

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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
I love not Man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal.
-Lord Byron

For anyone interested I just found this:
Metriaclima estherae
Apparently they can crossbreed.

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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
I love not Man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal.
-Lord Byron