The beauty of keeping an aquarium is that your fishes will give you some surprises from time to time like this one which I captured with my camera.
The three fishes are a big and a small parrot fish and a red devil. I usually switch off the light after feeding them, so when I switched on the lights, I saw that these three fishes were sleeping together. So, is three a crowd? For these fishes, I don’t think so 
parrot fishes are so adorable to look at! but why u put them (with cichilds) together in one aquarium?
my parrot fishes go along with my cichlids, the cichlids are smaller than parrot fishes so they’re fine.
I kept very small size cichlid,in the fish world “size does matter”,believe me I have kept couple of Gouramis with Cichlid,but they don’t touch Gourami because of size
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by the way, can we exlinks? i also have a fish blog.
sure, let me know your link
To me it looks like they just love to be close together…