I am currently keeping a black wolf in a planted riparium.
The plan is to upgrade him from a 75 to a 150g as he grows...all of which will be riparia.
The environment that is good for plants vs the environment that is best for aimara is one of the big issues here. Aimara apparently (no actual experience here...yet) like heavy flow and high oxygen.
Plants need flow but generally not river flow and love co2.
In the end you will have a big powerful fish that may or may not knock things out. My plan is to continue using my planters and floating plants, with some attached to driftwood or hidden planters...I dont trust a terracota pot when a big aimara bolts into it and knocks it over. Whatever you do should be pretty strongly attached where you want it IMO.