Angels and other Cichlids

[Dan F]

I recently moved some fish around and I need to find some tank mates for my Angel Fish.

The tank is a 135 gallons (72x18x24). It has a lot of rockwork and I am adding some driftwood. I have a 300 gallon Rubbermaid sump in the crawl space with about 1200GPH of flow. The tank is very well established.

Right now stocking is as follows:

1 black Angel
1 silver/black Angel
1 Orange-fin Prochilodus
3 Rosy Barbs
3 Congo Tetras
1 Rasbora
1 Rainbow
1 Red Skirt Tetra
1 Glass Cat (may have to move)
1 Blue Phantom Pleco

There is room for a whole lot more, but I'm not sure where to start. I would like to go with other Cichlids. Some thoughts were:

Gold Severums
Festae
Eartheaters (what kind???)

Any advice would be greatly appreciated, it has been a long time since I've kept Cichlids other than Angels.

 

[synoguy]

Eartheaters or severums would be good but get to a fair size.
if you want something smaller try bolivian Rams

 

[Dan F]

Eartheaters or severums would be good but get to a fair size.
if you want something smaller try bolivian Rams

Thanks. I actually would like some fish that get fairly large, so Severums and Eartheaters will probably be at the top of my shopping list.

 

[synoguy]

severums get up to 8 inches and eartheaters to 6 so not that big

 

[officerben]

Eartheaters have pretty cool behaviour, severums are cool to

 

[Loves severums]

geos would work not severums.

 

[Dan F]

geos would work not severums.

Is it because Severums are too aggressive? Years ago (more than twenty...) I kept a 40 long with Severums and Angels. I don't remember the Severums being all that nasty, but I could be wrong.

I am also thinking about Festivums (not Festae as I said originally), how would they fit in the mix?

Any other relatively large and peaceful Cichlids that would work?