What should i do with my baby convict cichlids if their mom is acting weird?

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I think the mom is ready to lay eggs again and i'm not sure if i should remove them from the tank. The babies still seem too small to be on their own, i think they'd still get sucked up by the filter by themselves or just wouldn't make it on their own. The mom is always swimming around freaking out, or moving rocks around, or bugging the male, and shaking or shimmying on the gravel. She does the shaking a lot on the gravel and spreads all the little trash in the gravel everywhere, but the male doesn't seem to be interested. Also she keeps chasing and pushing the male around...the male just leaves even though he is bigger than her.
The babies are around three or four weeks old and they're only a little less than a centimeter. They can all swim but they spend most of their time near the ground eating unless they swim up for more food.
 
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