My 30 Gallon Tank

[randymyr]

I don't have enough room to get all of my pictures up, or even a full pic, so I just cut down my favorite picture, which is also the best, since the fish like to move around a lot.

Basically that is the best picture of most of my fish, in the picture there is...
8 Serpae Tetras
2 Rosy Tetras (or blackflag tetra)
2 Bronze cories
and my favorite fish I have, a young convict cichlid, which is only a little more than two inches
only fish not in there are another two bronze cories and a kuhli loach lol
Also a single phantom tetra is in the picture, though very hard to see, it's in there... try and find him, lol, and sadly, he died two days after i took the picture, he got stuck into the filter and whatever was sticking out was eaten by the serpaes...

 

[tangokitty]

Will the convict get too aggressive for the rest?

 

[Ficious]

idk, i know the only thing (convict related) more agressive than a convict is a pair of convicts. look at my sig and youll see the mixture. amazingly they have gone through their first ever batch of eggs. (bought them as babies for 1 each). i currently have the wrigglers in a floating jar in my tank.

if you see any aggresive behavior, add more plants. or put a convict attracting object(flower pot, cave, etc) on one extreme side of the tank. hell mostly stay on that side (if agressive and territorial) and not mess with the other side.


another idea, once again if agressive) is put a fish in there with some attitude if messed with. my pleco i had didnt mess with other fish, but when the con did something to be a bully, he got his butt whooped! basicly makes the con know hes not the boss.

the last idea, which you currently have, is having more fish than he can beat up at once.

if theres 2 other fish in there...50% of the time hes going to bully 1 of the 2. so if you have 10+ its hard for him to beat one up enough to kill or hurt it.


good luck, nice tank

 

[paul_219]

Lovely pics u got over there. Wonderful tetras.

 

[randymyr]

Just for Tangokitty, the convict, if female, and the only one in there, is supposed to be one of the nicest cichlids you can get for a community tank, if anything the serpaes are causing more problems when I introduce new fish (as the two phantoms got ripped apart, but they were also quite a bit smaller so...)

For Ficious, I do have two caves in there, which she never uses anyways, just both of them are on opposite sides of the tank, and to make the picture fit, I had to cut those out.

And thanks paul , I was a little worried of getting the serpaes at first, but they're surprisingly nice fish, as long as you keep them with the right tank mates

And I'm adding some new wood to the tank now, it should hopefully look good, just the tank is a bit of a mess right now, I have all of the previous decorations holding down the new ones, should end up looking really nice once I start working on it