This is what I am planning on having in my 55 gallon. What would be other suitable mates? I will have 10-12 Tiger barbs and a Krib for certain. I have 6 Black Skirts that may go there or they will remain in my 29 gallon. Ive not yet decided. I obviously need some catfish, the krib was violent to my Skunk Cory so I had to remove him. There will be live plants also. Thanks everyone

is the krib alone? perhaps get it a mate.
also try getting another dwarf cichlid species.
ive always had good luck keeping a kibensis pair with a trio of neolamprologus brichardi together, a very hatfield and mccocy setup, they are stand offish but never seem to fight,they always too worried about each other to care about other dither fish
if i could do it in a 20gallon long, imsure u can do it in a 55g.

If you want to stay with the african congo region theme...Congo tetras are active lively schools that would go good with both kribs and barbs.

If you have somewhat hard water you can also do rainbows which look great and toss some colors not often seen in the freshwater tanks.

Probably would not hurt to get a couple friends for your krib...

As far as bottom feeders go I would get the more active botias skunks/blue are nice looking also chain loaches are usually avlable and mix well with the semi aggresive group you have going.

Best of luck

Good advice

I was actually giving some thought to congos or rainbows.. and alot of the locals near me only have really small kribs.. mine is grown so I guess I could buy one and throw it in my tetra tank to grow out? I know adding one later still might not go well but thas the best thing I can think to do.

is it a male krib? if so you can get a female that is 1/3 of his size, and she will still probably boss him around, but i wouldnt for it the other way around, a larger female might nag the male to death literally. kribs are love sick, from all the kribs ive kept, if the pair has been together for a long time and spawned numerous times they are just like lovebirds, if one dies the other will die or sadness. ive had this happen 3 times since ive been keeping kribs, fortunately they live for about 6years <3

I had a female live for around 8 yrs. Right now the one i have is a female.. had her about 6 months

Would a Red tail shark possibly work?

I think a redtail shark would be fine.

Sweet!

what other fish are native to thailand?

shortfin bettas