As long as you give the Texas plenty of room, A well balenced diet and keep the water quality high with regular partial water changes you wont go far wrong.
Iv had Texas Cichlids in the past, tryed keeping them a few times but can never get them eating anything apart from bloodworm, all my texas Cic ended up dead in about [at the most] 2months.
thats a carpintis i'm thinking of getting a texas not sure these guys love plants but not as decoration feed plenty of plant matter and keep the water clean and there an eazy fish to keep