Got a few questions about festae and community tank

[josh1986]

Any chance I could keep the black belt instead of synspillum?

 

[josh1986]

Any chance I could keep the black belt instead of synspillum?

 

[Gourami Swami]

Any chance I could keep the black belt instead of synspillum?

You can try it, I recommended synspilum because they generally are much less aggressive than the blackbelt. Do you have another tank set up that you can move fish into if they are getting pummeled? Do you have an easy way to re-home fish if they start killing their tankmates?