So many tank mates you ask, well I'd love to set up a huge acrylic tank to resemble a river bank from the Amazon. Right now I'm going small, I only have a pair of (Heros Notatus) spotted Severums, a chocolate and two spotted pike cichlid, one three spotted eartheater with more on the way, with a ghost fish, two snow ball plecos and a spotted Columbian pleco, 3 striped Rapheal cats, 2 tiger silver dollars, and a red tailed Chalceus in my 75 gallon. I'm upgrading soon to a 170 in about 4 months.
Most of the fish are over a half year old and are happy and healthy. The green Severum, Amazon puffer, and 4 other red tailed Chalceus I'm holding for a friend.
And I have a Aquatop canister filter with UV to handle all the waste, and I clean it and replace the carbon once a month, and I water change weekly, and I test the water weekly. Ammonia and Nitrite is always 0, and nitrate is only 10, ph at 6.8., and my water is soft.
