Needing some advice please

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eugeneT

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I currently have 2 Electric Yellows in a 29 gallon planted tank running a Penguin 350. I don't know much about venting and have been wary of injuring them so I havent vented them but the dominant one with more black always chases the other around. The shyer one doesnt have the black on its ventral and pectoral fins like the more dominant and he is always hiding behind the filter intake now. The other fish in the tank are 1 rainbow shark a little over 2 inches maybe 3, a couple female guppies, 10 assorted corys, and 1 Glofish since the other passed. My questions are....

#1 Am I overstocked? And is a 29 gallon too small for the electric yellows?
#2 IF I'm not overstocked, would adding another electric yellow be a good idea to spread out the bullying of the dominant one?

Too be honest I'm just worried about them because I don't know alot about cichlids and I'm curious if I should try and find them a new home. :confused: :confused:

Heres the tank, there are some rockwork and places to hide as you can see




Thanks everybody

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i had a pair of labs in my 29 with a few other cichlids. they bred without any assistance. had 4 babies survive the first time. sold them off after a while. be wary of the shark stealing babies.
 
So far I've only ever saw the shark chasing the guppies and mollies around, he never bothers the corys or EY's. I would like for them to breed, do you think I could add another one or two and it still be a good environment or do I need to do something else to keep the dominant one from being such a bully to the other? :popcorn:
 
why not setup a EY only tank. Then you can put a few more females and atleast one or two males. Repair has like 30 together in a tank right now and when I was over last he had three or four females holding...
 
only add another is you are 100% sure its a female. adding another male will be chaos
 
I would strongly suggest you vent the fish. The shy one could be a male being dominated by the other.
Net them, one at a time, Take them in your hand and turn them over. Look to see if the holes are either two small or one small and one big. Males do tend to have more black than the females but the safest way is to vent. They are pretty robust . Remember to do this over the net just in case the fish wriggles free and falls.:naughty: :ROFL: :headbang2 :nilly:
 
I know this is an old thread but I just had to update :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn:

One day I walked past my tank and saw something move under my slate/lava rock cave:confused: I was thinking :WTF: is that? So I go over for a closer inspection :hearts: It was an EY fry :headbang2 :headbang2 :headbang2 So right now I have 3 babies hiding around in my rockwork :D How lucky can you get to pick out a male and female just by the size and amount of black finnage on your first try, not knowing they couldn't be sexed accurately like that to start with :nilly: :nilly: :nilly: :nilly: :grinno:
 
The female mouth brooder was holding the eggs in her mouth for about 3 weeks. During that time ----she will not eat. THAT, and the bulbous jowl should have been a clue that she was holding. Unless she is young, there were probably more, but they got eaten. My guess is that they are both young, considering that you still have guppies in the tank that did not become feeder fish.
 
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