What would you stock?

[follen]

Have a 55g corner tank. Currently has a few blue botia and some pictus cats with a Honduran red point, convict cichlid and an Oscar grow out. Thinking about removing the Cichlids and keeping the bottom dwellers. What would you stock ? I like predatory fish or maybe a single show piece. Here's a pic of how it is at present.

Already have a large cichlid tank, com tank and puffer fish tank.

 

[CichlidKeeper01]

Another puffer tank, small catfish community, or a freshwater lionfish/stonefish

 

[Hendre]

freshwater lionfish/stonefish

Species name? I believe many of these "freshwater" fish are usually more brackish orientated.

Maybe a group of communal cichlids like "African butterfly" cichlids would work, they are said to be peaceful! Kribensis with Congo tetras? I'm not sure which "predatory" fish would be suitable in a tank that size

 

[CichlidKeeper01]

Species name? I believe many of these "freshwater" fish are usually more brackish orientated.

Maybe a group of communal cichlids like "African butterfly" cichlids would work, they are said to be peaceful! Kribensis with Congo tetras? I'm not sure which "predatory" fish would be suitable in a tank that size

It is brackish but just has the common name 'freshwater lionfish', scientific name is: Batrachomoeus trispinosus

 

[fishhead0103666]

I’d make it an african tank with some african butterfly fish, senegal bichirs, synodontis, and a leaffish.

 

[Rocksor]

if you put more pictus, their large shoal can be the focal point

 

[Deadliestviper7]

if you put more pictus, their large shoal can be the focal point

Agreed! Maybe add both variants of the common pictus, then add a pair of Olympic mudminnows

 

[J. H.]

ctenapoma and senagalus.

 

[Vampire fish]

alto cichlids

 

[vikingkirken]

Love the ctenopoma idea.