Is My Tank Overcrowed =(?

[YoungFishKeeper]

Hi i have a 55gall tank i just want to see if its over crowed or its ok and the fish will be heathly it contains
2 blood parrots
1 smale convict
3 unnone cichlids
1 jack demsy
1 green terror
2 black and white raphael cat

 

[Wills]

Hi yes it is over crowded Im afraid. My prediction for the tank is the green terror will hit maturity and wipe out the whole tank.

Can you post a pic of your unknown cichlids please so we can work out what they are.

In a 55g you would probs be able to do

1 Jack Dempsey
1 Convict (never go on the size of a fish at present as they will grow to adult size thats how you work out if a tank will work or not)
1 Blood Parrot - or depending on what the unknown cichlids are one or two of them.
2 Raphael Catfish

To this tank with 3 cichlids in I would then add a school of giant danios or tiger barbs or rainbow fish as dithers to distract the cichlids from each other. I would suggest giant danios best for this tank as they are the toughest and the fastest.

Wills

 

[YoungFishKeeper]

sorry about it being blurry alittle
and you shear green terrors are agressive? becouse mine is 4 inch and was being bullyed all most to death by a 1 inch red tail shark i had in there

 

[Wills]

I think they might be albino kribensis but the photo is pretty blurry any chance of a better one? The thing with GTs are they are sometimes fine for a while but once they hit sexual maturity thats when the problems start. It might not be just on size more so on age, alternativly you might have been sold a blue acara as they look quite similar when small and are often mis sold. Again can you get a good pic of them?

Wills

 

[YoungFishKeeper]

i try

 

[YoungFishKeeper]

thats the best i could do well i have the abino kribs and they look nuthing like them though

 

[Wills]

With them being albino its tough to work out what it is, Im struggling to find a new world cichlid with a spot like that on the dorsal fin. Can you remember what they were labeled as in the shop at all? Anything to give us a clue.

I suspect they may be african cichlids though.

One more point with the GT, if it is a GT and it grows on to be peaceful because it does happen but is rare. They will still grow to like 10 inches which IMO is a big too big for a 55 gallon tank

Wills

 

[YoungFishKeeper]

they were sold under feeders that just came with some feeder guggys
if it helps some have blacks strips runing up and down on there bodys but its very faint