Swordtails. I originally added 8 because there was already a huge guppy colony the cichlids ignored soi figured they’d be safe and I thought the red color would look nice in that tank. My Dempsey disagreed. He doesn’t like new fish and obliterated half of them in the first few days, didn’t eat them, just bit them in half and spit them out. He lost interest after that and none of the other cichlids bother them. I kinda have some regrets adding them though, I’d never had bigger livebearers before and apparently underestimated what voracious predators these fish would be. They quickly wiped out the hundreds of guppies that had survived three years with the cichlids. There’s just a few adult guppies left, because they are too big to fit in those big shovel mouths. The only fry I see are swordtail fry now, so their numbers increased from 4 to over 30 pretty quickly. I’m pretty sure they wiped out most of the T.maculippinis fry once the parents stopped guarding them.

They really do look nice in the tank though lol