My first fish Tank need help

**born2blove** · 06-19-2010, 01:03 AM

Hello all

I just set up my first fish tank about 3 weeks ago.
I gor 29 Galon fish tank ($54) with Eclipse 3 Hood (37$) at Petsco.
My house water from water softenner.
I took my watter to petsco test every thing ok.
last week I got 4 fish from some one 1 pair male & female Convict; 1 Electric Yellow and 1 Zebra Red Cichlid.

Today I get home my Convict has alot of egg onhe rock what shoul I do

Please help me.

**rich311k** · 06-19-2010, 01:06 AM

Let things run there course not much you can do without another tank. Those convicts are going to get ultra aggresive.

**little hawaii** · 06-19-2010, 01:06 AM

Originally Posted by born2blove

Hello all

I just set up my first fish tank about 3 weeks ago.
I gor 29 Galon fish tank ($54) with Eclipse 3 Hood (37$) at Petsco.
My house water from water softenner.
I took my watter to petsco test every thing ok.
last week I got 4 fish from some one 1 pair male & female Convict; 1 Electric Yellow and 1 Zebra Red Cichlid.

Today I get home my Convict has alot of egg onhe rock what shoul I do

Please help me.

More tanks? No, that is a huge fish population for a 29g. They will not be able to raise them in that tank unless they kill everything else. Tread carefully. You could remove the eggs.

**born2blove** · 06-19-2010, 01:44 AM

Thank You
You guy mean I have to buy the second tank and than move the egg to new tank.

**Oskar** · 06-19-2010, 02:11 AM

Originally Posted by born2blove

Hello all

I just set up my first fish tank about 3 weeks ago.
I gor 29 Galon fish tank ($54) with Eclipse 3 Hood (37$) at Petsco.
My house water from water softenner.
I took my watter to petsco test every thing ok.
last week I got 4 fish from some one 1 pair male & female Convict; 1 Electric Yellow and 1 Zebra Red Cichlid.

Today I get home my Convict has alot of egg onhe rock what shoul I do

Please help me.

Unless you have someone to give the fry to,I would not keep a male and female convict.They will continuously have fry. I would see if the pet store will take one of them back.

You also have African cichlids in there. Not a good idea to keep cichlids from different continents in the same tank. I would stick with the Africans,or one convict in that tank.