Hello all! I have a 20 long with 7 fifteen week old female Kribensis cichlids and one tiny angel fish who is recuperating from bullying. I have been away for qt and my mom has been feeding them and I have been home weekly to change the water. So today I came home for a couple of days and I’m concerned. The one largest female is swimming happily but the others are not swimming and just hiding. This HAS been going on since they were all wee babies but now they’re larger. I ALSO have a 35 gallon acrylic showtank downstairs with one yellow lab one Duboisi (long long story) one angel fish and 8 pristella tetras. I am planning to get another acrylic 75 gallon tank when I move into my fiancé’s in Sept. however should I :
A.) leave the kribs alone and keep up with weekly water changes
B.) move some but not all of krib babies and keep some up here with angelfish
**i can’t move the angel fish into the show tank yet so I don’t want to move all the krib babies**
C.) buy an emergency 40 gallon breeder
To have all the kribs live in until I can get the larger tank (I would do this Friday and it’s not ideal with cycling and all bc I would have to move the old BB into the new tank and not have a ton of time to cycle at all).
I also don’t want to split up babies but maybe it’s best.
A.) leave the kribs alone and keep up with weekly water changes
B.) move some but not all of krib babies and keep some up here with angelfish
**i can’t move the angel fish into the show tank yet so I don’t want to move all the krib babies**
C.) buy an emergency 40 gallon breeder
To have all the kribs live in until I can get the larger tank (I would do this Friday and it’s not ideal with cycling and all bc I would have to move the old BB into the new tank and not have a ton of time to cycle at all).
I also don’t want to split up babies but maybe it’s best.