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Originally Posted by dsaundry

I have actually heard one fw fish salesperson try to sell neons with Salvini cichlids...:

Thats actually not that far of a stretch( I woulnt have recommended neons)....you can add small schooling fish with most cichlids to use as "dither fish"....the school of small fish make the cichlids feel more at ease....they have to be really active and fast swimmers though....like zebra danios etc. Ideally you would use cyprochromis but those are sometimes hard to find and expensive...synodontis are great tank mates except you dont see them much during the daylight hours....most of the plecos work as they are quite armored and can take the abuse....you can also use chinese algae eaters as they themselves are as aggressive as the cichlids.....