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My little boy has taken an interest in my aquarium. Right now it only has 2 sunfish which I am planning on rehoming. I would like to restock it with bright active fish. Here is one of my ideas:

2 Severum
1 Firemouth
1 Blue Acara
2 Pictus Catfish
1 Green Phantom or Gold Nugget Pleco
1 school Buenos Aires Tetras
1 school Columbian Tetras

The only fish I have experience with here are Firemouth and Pictus.

Does this sound like it would work? I am also open to any and all suggestions and would like to hear all of your ideas.
 
The only place I could find Red Heads would be online and they can't pick or guarentee sex. Would I be in trouble if I had several of them and ended up with more males than females?
 
Other cool fish would be Salvini...Five Star Generals or set up an African rift lake tank....Africans are very very active, very brightly colored, super tough and resilient and breed in captivity almost to a fault...getting Africans to breed sometimes is a simple as a single water change, hahaha!!
 
Buenos Aires Tetras are very very active as well....I just had 15, 2" Buenos in my 180 and they never stopped.....ever.
To that point, those as peacful community fish is subject to debate!!
 
Although it's not on your list, I highly recommend barbs; as they are very active, playful and entertaining. Everyone that comments on my aquarium when they visit like tiger barbs, so just thinking about your son, he might enjoy watching them :)

Severums would go well with the barbs too, just get a big shoal and they annoy each other instead of other fish. Acara and pleco are good as well, firemouth could get a bit narky.
 
think mellow cichlids , probably no more the 2 -3 if American...6-10 African (unless you go real small).. sevs are probably ok)(2)..maybe a pair of firemouths and some big tetras or giant danios.. or rainbowfish .. and a pleco ...bushynose maybe..
 
blood parrots would work also (several) in place of reg. cichlids
 
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