Yes, the rope fish is great. Very calm, very calming to watch. I like to watch him leap up onto the top of the thermometer with his middle and just rest there a while. Its interesting. We call him "Ace," and my two yr old daughter will run up to the tank and say "Mommy I see Ace!" and she plays with him some. She also likes to look for the peacock while kind of singing "Sparky...where'd Sparky go....?" Lol, its super cute. we don't have the Oscars anymore, the cichlids tore their fins up pretty early on. One of them lasted longer than the other and we came home one day and he was dead in the corner of the tank. Not really 100% sure about the first one that died, I'm sure part of it was the other fish picking on him too hard, but from the time we put him in the tank he struggled more than all the others and kind of floated on his side unless he was startled and had to go hide somewhere. It was bad enough that we had named him "Can't-get-right." And, yes, the cichlids do eat much faster. The rope fish gets the pieces of blood worm that have been overlooked. When I thaw the block I dip it straight down to the peacock and run interference with the cichlids by scaring them away for long enough for him to eat what he wants of it first. They are very persistent and sometimes I have to thaw another block out for him because the two large cichlids will steal it from the tongs and eat the whole block themselves. I heard that cichlids shouldn't have blood worms more than twice a week, and I try to take that into consideration, anyone know if there's any truth to that? Can it hurt them somehow?