Stocking new tropical fish aquarium

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DaneeF

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Hi all. I'm new to this forum! 😁

Currently thinking of ideas to stock my new 125L Fluval Roma aquarium.

I currently have one super red bristle nose pleco and three cherry shrimp.

I'm looking to get some colourful feature fish (maybe a pair)? And then some more shoaling fish.

Has anyone got any ideas what I can stock? And how many of each please? I've been looking and looking but cannot figure out how many I can have and what will work well as a community tank.

My current PH is sitting at around 7.6 PH. And I'm based in Swindon, UK which is pretty hard water. So not sure if I can go for something like German Rams as they like it pretty soft. I love Cichlids but they are pretty aggressive in a community tank plus my aquarium is quite heavily live planted.

Many thanks!
 
I have had a lot of luck with gouramis and dwarf gouramis. Each type I have (rainbow, dwarf fire, honey, blue) all vary in size with the honeys being the smallest and the blue being the largest (that I have) they are very content with a huge variety of tank mates, from my bichir, snails, rainbow sharks, mollies, clown loaches, and more… they seem to mind their business and everything so far has left them alone as well. You would usually want to keep gouramis in groups of 3 or more as long as they’re not all males. This is all just in my opinion, others may say otherwise on all of this but they’ve been great in my experience :)
 
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