It's not a terribly aggressive cichlid at all. And since you have a good size tank, you have lots of choices. Why don't you tell us what is available to you that you like?
I will have to check my local fish stores as I haven't been in them for awhile but I would lean towards Flamebacks, possible Cyprichromas Lepto (Sardine Cichlid), Hap Nyereri (Red Mwanza) or some other Haps.
I did end up with 6 Zebras, 1 alpha male, 1 beta male and 4 females.
They get along fine though there is a lot of chasing (but no harm) going on between them.
My alpha male did mate with 2 of the females which then carried eggs and fry in their mouth but as they are in a community 100 gal African tank I did not hold out much hope for the survival of the fry and trying to catch the females in a 100 gallon cave filled tank was out of the question so I let nature take it's course and soon the females were eggs and fry free.
That was a few weeks ago and I thought no more about any fry and there has been no more breeding apparent.
Yesterday to my surprise I noticed a movement of something small and lo and behold there appeared 2 approx. 3/4 inch Zebras.
They apparently knew when to come out of hiding as all my Africans are less than 3 inches long so far and maybe to small to eat them and they do ignore the little guys, this was a new set up that I only put juvenile Africans in with 4 adult Spotted Raphaels that I rarely see
PS - The breeding was between fish that were not even 2 inches long.
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