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Cichlids!

I have 3 of them... and... it's not really working out anymore.

I need to return 2 of them and leave the tank to just my Lab. Trewavesae *I can't part with him*.

HOWEVER, all the fish stores here that I "might" consider trading into, will only accept trade in's on weekdays... I work.. every week day, and the fish store are FAR.

My Lab. Trewavesae is picking on my Psuedo. Estherea CONSTANTLY now, but he leaves my Electric Yellow alone.
It's gotten to the point where the P. Estherea's fins are starting to look horrible, and loosing their colour *they are an icky yellow instead of nice bright hints of blue/orange*. I have a feelign with in days he will die of stress if I don't get him out of there. However, I have a strong feeling, that if I remove the P. Estherae, then the Electric Yellow will just get picked on.
So I need to trade in both of them.

I need a bigger tank for them all 50G + but I can't "really" afford it right now, I can, but if something else bad happened in my life right now, which required money I'd be in deep doo doo.. That and I have NO place to put a 50G. Couldn't have it set up in time for this, etc.

So... what in the world do I do?! These fish are great, healthy speicimens except for this recent fin problem.

Has anyone ever delt with this before, if so, what did you do?

PS: No I don't know any other fish keepers locally who are willing or able to take in these 2.