Need some quick honest feedback please
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A divider sound great, if there's a brace bar on the center top of you're tank. You could zip tie it, then add some heavy stone on the bottom of the divider on both side's for support. Suction cups didn't work for me. They will get used too each other over time hopefully. Fish can be a serious gamble at time's. Like Jexnell said they might hook up, especially if the other is a male and she likes his aggression. 
That's true. My red Texas shacked up with a female festae. Eventually I had to separate them because the tank wasn't big enough for both at maturity and there was going to be bloodshed, but he was generally a good fish husband. Like most amphs he loves to dig, so he assumed the task of nest building. He was very particular about the details and didn't like her helping him. He would yank up plants and bring them to her to play with to keep her distracted while he was digging.
Unless you have a QT tank set up, or are intimately familiar with the previous owner, and their tanks, I would pass.
Especially considering what happened to your last fish.
Especially considering what happened to your last fish.
Hello; The telling part of this is not having a plan B so to speak. I guess the divider idea is sort of a plan B. But if they do not get along then you are stuck without another tank.
The QT idea is correct. I always QT any new fish anymore.
If I were determined to try this I would rearrange the tank as others have suggested but would add another step. I would put both fish in separate smaller tanks for a while and introduce them into the big tank at the same time. The new fish could be in a QT setup.
I also would use completely different tank décor in the rearrangement so the current fish can not recognize the old stuff.
The QT idea is correct. I always QT any new fish anymore.
If I were determined to try this I would rearrange the tank as others have suggested but would add another step. I would put both fish in separate smaller tanks for a while and introduce them into the big tank at the same time. The new fish could be in a QT setup.
I also would use completely different tank décor in the rearrangement so the current fish can not recognize the old stuff.
The divider thing works in some cases, don't know that I'd count on it with those two species.
I had a 10.5” female festae killed by my similar sized Amarillo in a 300 with multiple other fish - it all depends on the Fish personalities and with only 2, someone will always take the brunt. I’ve found the no matter how aggressive the S. American Fish is, C. American Fish are just on a different aggressive level. I personally would not mix featae with large centrals again
I say the really issue, is the fact that you're trying to get them adjusted at a very broken in stage. Even at a juvenile's, it might still be a risk to combine the two. I would say, a way smaller size would've been your best chance. Anything is possible and different things happen all the time. I feel as though you'll still get that fish and personally if you do that's you're choice. Just make sure the divider is tight.
I agree with the others, since this is very late in the game, you have at best, 50/50 odds that it will end well.
If they were juvies raised up together, better odds.
I have raised Amphilopines, and festae together, and it worked well, but as juvies, and not just a 2.
2 cichlids in a tank is often much worse than a group.
And the quarantine issue is also a big deal to me, any fish can appear fine, no visible symptoms, but in a new tank, under stress, soon become patient zero.
If they were juvies raised up together, better odds.
I have raised Amphilopines, and festae together, and it worked well, but as juvies, and not just a 2.
2 cichlids in a tank is often much worse than a group.
And the quarantine issue is also a big deal to me, any fish can appear fine, no visible symptoms, but in a new tank, under stress, soon become patient zero.
