Mixing African cichlids with South American cichlids options

Timbo0793

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I have a 90 gallon tank with mostly African cichlids such as yellow lab electric blue cichlid red zebra venustus Acei yellowfin borleyi ob cichlid bumble bee and a couple more African cichlid mixed with a green terror jack Dempsey black convict a channel cat fish and a pike fish and one or 2 more South American fish I've had this tank set up for about 4 months and all of the fish get along but they are still on the smaller side the biggest being around 4 inches my question is will they be on as they grow older
 

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Small detail, neither the JD or convict are South Americans, the JD is from Mexico, and the convict is endemic to Nicaragua, Costa Rica or some other Central American country depending on the variant. None of those countries are part of South America, and for those of us who live in Central America, Central and South America are not the same.
On the other subject, because the cichlids are all growing up together, it may work, because they may set up a hierarchy between themselves.
The channel cat will soon outgrow the tank, and may begin eating the cichlids.
Don't know what you mean by pike fish, there are pike live bearers, pike cichlids, or north American and European pikes.
Here is a pike cichlid.
 
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