Could I do 40% water changes a week (I can bump it up to 50 whenever needed) but the fish would be,
- 10 tiger barbs
- The delhezi bichir I have
- A pair of red spotted severums
- Senegal bichir
- Either a pair of kissing gouramis or 5 pearl gouramis, (please comment if one isn’t adequate)
- (possibly) 2 African leaf fish
- 5 hoplo cats
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. I would advice 1 or maybe even 2 hoplo's. More will make the surface area so crowded that the bichirs will probably be bumped in every time a catfish swims.
i think if you want bigger fishes you should be looking at around 5 fishes. More would probably be too much aggression and overstocking.
Kissing gouramis with severums/african leafish are a bad idea. They look to similair and when breeding the kissing gouramis will kill the rest of the fish.
I would advice maybe 2 species or just a pair of bigger cichlids. If you want a lot of cichlids you should look at malawi's or tanganyika(but the bichir will probably not be a good combination with that)
Maybe if you wane go african:
-1 delhezi
-1 senegal
-2 african leopard fish (ctenopoma)
-1 butterflyfish or (2 pearl gouramis, aldo they are not from africa)
-1 hoplo