me.. expert.. nah..

A small tank, like Zeus mentioned is harder to take care of. plus you already have it over stocked and the filter cannot keep up with the waste.

It may also be fact that you have started the nitrogen cycle. critical to fish and how they live..

fishlore.com is a good forum for fish stuff..



What I did with my 45 gallon tank was used 12 cichlids that my friend gave me and dumped them in as starters to get the tank cycled... It didn't matter if they died or not since they were starting the nitrogen cycle... well it has been 2 months and the tank is perfect.. no nitrogen or nitrite(nitrate maybe) spikes..

I need to get rid of the convict cichlids.. 12 of them made it ... and they breed like crazy