Fish for a 180litre / 47 gal tank

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Xeno

Xeno

Aimara
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Hey,
Yesterday I bought another tank (well the 12th tank in my house).
It's dimensions are 100cm x 40cm x 45cm.
I moved some fish from other tanks in there which are:
2 Synodontis velifer (12 years old)
1 Mystus leucophasis
1 Mystus tengara

The tank is localized in my bedroom.
When you enter the room this tank is right in front of you while there are 2 small tanks on your right (Neocaridina and Hymenochirus).
Downstairs I'm keeping primary angelfish and some "predators" (not really) like Polypterus, Apteronotus, Mastacembelus.
So there is no way to keep quite territorial species in my main tanks.

So I'd like to keep cichlids in this bedroom-tank.
I know Hemichromis would be quite a good option (beautiful and quite good in "creating" food for my Polypterus if you know what I mean).
But to be honest I'd like to keep Rocio octofaciatum "Blue" for quite a while.

I've never kept Rocio so I don't know if this tank is large enough to keep a pair or a single specimen.
 
It will last them a couple of years but eventually I think you will have to upgrade
 
Go for it, I am sure you will know when it's time to upgrade
 
Yeah get them both if you want a pair, however with blue dempseys its really not very easy to sex them untill they are large, which takes forever
 
Hey,
As far as I know a pair consisting of two Blue Dempseys won't be able to "create" healthy fry.
So breeders are crossing a Blue male with a normal female.
Is this true?

The two Dempseys I could get are about 5cm in length.
 
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