Convict tank mates?

[Anonymous Fox]

Recently (march i think) my mother and father made the impulsive decision to purchase two convict cichlids despite me advising them against it. Previously i had a pretty fair amount of corydoras, tetras, and danios in my 47 gallon hexagon tank. However since they added the cichlids to my tank most of my other fish have died due to bullying and not being able to withstand them. Because of this ive made the decision to remove the remaining tetras and give them to my grandfather, and separate my cories into a 10 gallon (maybe 20? I have one sitting in the garage but i dont have a stand for it so i might upgrade one day if they dont seem convenient). My father enjoys having lots of fish in the tank but clearly my current fish aren’t compatible with the cichlids, so I was wondering what would be? Id like to make it a specialized tank for just cichlids and/or rams but google is just saying I basically can’t add anything else without trouble and i just want to confirm that thats true. Id like to breed them one day so i was thinking of adding a breeding pair of some other type but again i don’t really know if thats possible.

Bastards in question

 

[AJ356]

Have they paired up as a couple? In my experience, sexually mature convicts or polar blues as yours might be, are better off in their own tank as a breeding pair, or, having males only in a large community tank. A breeding pair will demand two to three feet of a tank to themselves, at least.

Sometimes you can get away with non breeding adults in a community tank, if you get lucky. Normally not though, as in your case.

 

[Anonymous Fox]

Have they paired up as a couple? In my experience, sexually mature convicts or polar blues as yours might be, are better off in their own tank as a breeding pair, or, having males only in a large community tank. A breeding pair will demand two to three feet of a tank to themselves, at least.

Sometimes you can get away with non breeding adults in a community tank, if you get lucky. Normally not though, as in your case.

They’re a pair of males they hang out together a lot but obviously not like a breeding pair would

 

[AJ356]

Do you think that smaller one is a male? Looks a bit too early to tell if that's a male from the photo? To me anyway.

 

[Anonymous Fox]

Do you think that smaller one is a male? Looks a bit too early to tell if that's a male from the photo? To me anyway.

Yes it’s just the angle he was more far back and it was taken from a high angle theyre the same size irl and neither have any orange or anything else that would indicate that they could be female