Thinking Of Starting All Over Again.......

[CentricOregon]

Hi everybody, I'm kinda confused on what to do here, I have a juwel rio 180 and have a mix of cichlids and a few others in there, mostly cichlids though. About 3 or 4 days after cleaning it completely the tank is absolutely dirty again and it always gets stirred up, even though it's only a 180 litre it requires quite a bit of cleaning (roughly 10 or 12 buckets) but since my tank is in my room upstairs and I use the water from the kitchen I have to carry these buckets upstairs every week which is pretty tiring lol.So my question is pretty much this, should I sell all my cichlids and go to smaller fish, Keep some cichlids and sell others or sell all cichlids and get 2 discus or something? would love discus but always scared incase they die and I can't take them back, plus I am out of a job at the moment so if they died I would be ummm broke basically lol.Let me know what you guys think.I'll write a tank list aswell:


Gold Severum (6inch)
Demon Eartheater x2 (4 & 6inch)
Blood Parrot x2 (both 3 and a half inch)
Jack Dempsey x2 (3 and 4 and a half inch)
Rainbow Cichlid x2 (both 5 inch)
Clown Knife Fish (Too Big! lol 11inch)
Black Ghost Knife (8inch)
Red Tail Shark (4 or 5inch)
Bristle Nose Plec x3 (3,3 and about 1 and a half inch)
Whiptail Plec x2 (3 and a half and 4inch)
Common Plec (11inch)
BumbleBee Malawi (5 or 6inch)
Cory x5 (all about 2 inch or so)
Yellow Peacock Cichlid (3 and a half or 4inch)
Marble Convict (2 and a half or 3inch)


Bit much I know but I have been selling them off, actually giving away the Common Plec and Clown Knife free to good home

 

[rocknurworld2006]

this is way way overstocked and a real bad mix of fish!

i think you really need to sort this out , and which fish you want to keep which can be kept together.

 

[Corleone]

Out of that list, you could possibly keep the severum or one of the JDs, or one of the blood parrots (don't know much about them if two would be a good idea in that size, they are smaller than the other two I listed, I think, but not by much). One of the big South American cichlids would pretty much fill the tank, I'd pick a favorite and start getting the rest rehomed ASAP.

 

[CentricOregon]

this is way way overstocked and a real bad mix of fish!

i think you really need to sort this out , and which fish you want to keep which can be kept together.

yeah i do realize this, I've put up ads for the clown and the plec but nobody will take them.if i get rid of them thats 22inches off the tank but until then i dunno what to do.i would take them to my lfs and they would take them but they would be sitting in 1 and a half foot tanks which isnt really fair on them.oh and please nobody start moaning about overstocked cos i know all this, i didnt do it cos i wanted loads of fish or to be cruel, i just simply didnt realise what they would become lol

 

[CentricOregon]

Out of that list, you could possibly keep the severum or one of the JDs, or one of the blood parrots (don't know much about them if two would be a good idea in that size, they are smaller than the other two I listed, I think, but not by much). One of the big South American cichlids would pretty much fill the tank, I'd pick a favorite and start getting the rest rehomed ASAP.

yeah, I was gonna keep the black ghost and sell all the cichlids and possibly go for smaller fish or a couple of discus, I need to think bout it properly though, its a hard decision