I have a single polleni in my 75. She's awesome and very interactive. View attachment 1188532
Or maybe a severum, a couple electric blue Acara, and some Cory cats or rams for the bottom.
Or a Leopard Ctenopoma with some Congo tetras and maybe some African butterfly fish. Not cichlids but would be a cool tank, especially if you added plants.
Good looking fish you have I'm set to just what petco have in arkansas I haven't found any freshwater stores like they have in ks and petco has just your normal run of the mill fish sadly.
Ok since your not really looking for aggression and you want a colorful community I would go with several smaller fish. SO maybe having a tank full of small growing CA cichlids liks cons, firemouth, and whatever else your LFS offers. You could even do pairs. It would be really cool to see several cichlid pair interact with each other. If you want to go a milder route maybe look into a group of bolivian rams or read head tapajos. Kinda sucks your limited to whats at your LFS but if you ever decide to order online the doors really open to what you can get.
Ok since your not really looking for aggression and you want a colorful community I would go with several smaller fish. SO maybe having a tank full of small growing CA cichlids liks cons, firemouth, and whatever else your LFS offers. You could even do pairs. It would be really cool to see several cichlid pair interact with each other. If you want to go a milder route maybe look into a group of bolivian rams or read head tapajos. Kinda sucks your limited to whats at your LFS but if you ever decide to order online the doors really open to what you can get.
I would reccomend Jeff Rapps --->http://www.tangledupincichlids.com/. He has an awesome variety of fish and he is really good about answering questions about his stock. In fact I just ordered fish from him. You would have to pay quite a bit more than me for shipping because I live in Maryland so shipping is not that high from Jersey where I believe his facility is located. But IMO it's worth it. I don't have any LFS near me(besides petco/petsmart) so for me, going online is the only way to get quality stock unless I want to drive over an hour to find a LFS.
Now of corse there is nothing wrong with buying from your close petstore. It is certainly much cheaper. But you are really limited on what you can buy. Plus(at least in my experience) the fish at those stores are not well taken care of and are more likely to have problems down the road. Of corse every petco/petsmart or whatever is different depending on where you live.
