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How pushy are these when it comes to less agressive fish? I recently purchased some Xenotilapia to house in my new project 75 gal. I wanted to add some of my syno's to the tank as well, but mine have seemed pushy with the brevis and calvus they are currently with, and I don't want to injure, hurt, startle, etc etc the new Xenotilapia (as they are one of my bucketlist fish, I really want them to be happy.)

I'd describe them as 'curious' - if the xeno's would be worried by being checked out/investigated, maybe phyllonemus would be a better option.

Lucipinnis seem fine with cyp's & a lot of other tangs but i've not mixed them with the ones you mention

I am surprised no one has experience with both of these...

I have S. lucipinnis in with a colony of Neolamprologus multifasciatus. The lucipinnis have mainly stayed in a rock pile in the center of the tank. There are 4 eight year old lucipinnis here. I get some fry from the Multies, but not too many.

I have 6 almost two year old S. lucipinnis in a 65 gallon tank that most recently had three pairs of Telmatochromis temporalis which were spawning. The cats were definitely bullied by these fish. I very seldom saw them out swimming. They stayed in the rocks full time. I just got rid of the temporalis yesterday and the lucipinnis were out all day today swimming all over the tank on upside down on the surface.

So now I am wanting to put a breeding pair of Neolamprologus leleupi in this tank where I want to raise the fry from them. I am wondering if I will be successful. I can see the cats wanting the coconut shell cave instead of the leleupi. There are plenty of rocks in this tank.

Here is a poor quality video of this tank when the cats were 5 months old in May 2014. The leleupi you see in the video are the ones I'm getting back from a friend since all of the fish in this video are no longer in there, except for the cats. I may set the rocks back in the tank differently. Not sure yet.

https://youtu.be/FhmauiU-md0

I have mine with Xenotilapia, Opthalmotilapia and few others. No problems whatsoever. Although mine are twice the size of my S.lucipinnis:-)

They are very active and may freak out easily spooked species but at the same time if you have caves or pots, they do a lot of their activity going round and round inside pots and bouncing between them. So I don't foresee any issues.