New Tank! Looking For Suggestions...

Hi everyone!
Looking for some expert advice and I am pretty sure I have come to the right place   

I am setting up a new tank! Yay!
125 litre, 80cm
Obvs I will do the whole cycling sans poissons.

Previously, I've kept a 60cm community tanks: zebra danios (they were a bit mean), WCMMs (lovely), Cories (love 'em -  did well despite my hard water), endlers (bullied by mean danios), shrimps (v entertaining), ottos (useful), platys (too much poo), and an inherited, unidentified cory (Clive - my most adorable fish ever  ).

I'm kinda looking for something a bit different for my new tank.
I have hard water (not super hard) and ph of around 7.5-7.8
And an 80cm, 125 litre tank.

Could I keep Bolivian rams? Either singly or as a breeding pair? Group? Ditto kribs? Could I keep these with mollies? (my daughter, Molly, would like a molly!)
Could I combine any of the above with a dwarf plec?
Kids also keen on cichlids - are there any dwarf cichlids that would be happy in my water? Lots seem to prefer soft.
Would Clive like any of these? Probably not the plec...

I don't want to try to soften my water or alter the ph...

Thanks in advance for your help and advice

 

Hi fcmf
Thanks for replying.
I will try to get a pic of the adorable Clive!  He can stay where he is - doesn't have to be placed in the new tank. He seems quite happy even though he's on his own with no other cories.
Same water as before. My water co says 200 is medium, but info on the web seems to disagree about what constitutes hard and very hard water.
I really want my fishes to get along in their hard water too. Or at least put up with/ignore each other!

Thanks!

Thanks, Littlefish!
Clive could probably wrestle a piranha - he's a pretty tough little guy!
I tried the RO tap water mix in my first tank -collecting it from my LFS by bike every week! - but couldn't keep it up, so in the end I decided to just go with the water.
What fish do you keep -apart from your plec and cories? How much of a reduction do you get with your RO water?
Thanks
 

 
This thread is a little out of date, I have more fish now, but it should give you some idea of how things are here.
https://forums.thinkfish.co.uk/gallery-showcase/multi-tank-syndrome-confessions-of-an-mts-sufferer-by-littlefish/
I have danios, WCMM, v. platies, peppered cories, and amano shrimp in my temperate tank. I agree with you that the platies pooh a lot. The ones I have are the offspring of my original fish. They are complete pigs, and their output more than matches the input.
Your Clive sounds like a cool dude 
As far as water is concerned, it's easier to work with what you have, rather than deal with changing it (as you have found out). As an example, water is 17dh, my river tank is approx. 420L, and 20% RO takes it down to 14dh.
There are fish that are fine in my water - my dwarf puffers, tiger barbs, etc., but I admit to getting carried away and buying fish that are less suitable for my water, hence the RO.
Your water (12dh) will work for so many fish.
Going back to your original post, and bolivian rams, here is the site we tend to turn for checking on details
http://www.seriouslyfish.com/species/mikrogeophagus-altispinosus/
You will see that the rams would also need a larger tank.
If you use a combination of the community creator, and information from Seriously Fish, you can check on the fish that you like, and see if they would work for you.
http://aqadvisor.com/ can be used as a community creator. It has a much larger list of fish available, but the CC on Thinkfish is more straight forward.

Take a look at Kribensis and Bolivian Rams