Golden Gourami (Trichogaster trichopterus)

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I have 2 female golden gouramis and the bigger one picks on the smaller one constantly no damage has been done at all but it is quite constant.

Billy Sands

I have a 3-inch male and 1.5-inch female mixed with Bala sharks and Giant Danios in a 29g. All seems fine in paradise unless they mate then all bets are off, as some of the other inhabitants may have to be removed to protect them from the father gourami. The male is simply beautiful and adds a lot to the tank. As long as you provide cover in the form of rocks, plants (plastic or live) they should peacefully co-exist.

Tom

I had two females the same size. One would push the other into the corner of the tank. As they got bigger (about 4") the more aggesive she got until...you know the rest. I thought getting two females would be ok. Not in this case. As a note, she is very peaceful with the other fish.

Laura

I had a golden gourami in with an angelfish, 2 silver dollars, an albino rainbow shark, a common pleco, and a blue gourami. All but the pleco, angelfish, and gouramis died of ich. Neither one of the gouramis ever had ich and this tank (a 46 gallon bow front) had it bad. They must be unseseptable to disease. The golden gourami was so mean, we put him in a tank with nothing, and he still lives! The blue gourami though is very peaceful.

Kyle Kempf

This fish is very pretty. Even though the full grown male is aggresive, they are a great fish to have!

Michael Brown

I've had a male Golden Gourami for three years now. They are very graceful, especially when alone. However, I have found mine somewhat aggressive with other species. I also wanted to agree with Kyle; mine has survived several Ich outbreaks and has never once had a single spot on him.

Mike

My golden gourami has killed a platy, neon tetra and a guppy. It's almost killed my red honey gourami, so I'm moving it to a seperate tank. I had no idea it would grow so big and be so agressive.

Golden Gourami

I have two male golden gourami's in a 70g tank. The live very peacefully with the other fish; three guppies, two phantom tetras and three sailfin plecs. The larger male (about 5cm) picks on the smaller one (about 3cm) and has started shredding its tail!!! Be warned, these fish are teritorial within their species

Chris

I found one of my gold gouramis to be extremely aggressive to all of the others in a community tank. A beautiful fish, but too aggressive.

Marie

RayRay937

I was told by an idiot at Jacks Aquarium that gouramis would get along with each other. I have two blue and one golden. Its strange though, sometimes they'll swim together lovingly. Then the next minute, the bigger blue of the 3 will chase the other two. He even grabbed the golden by his fin and shook it. No damage was done luckily, and the golden seemed unphased. Im going to get some more plants tomorrow and a bigger decor piece for hiding to see if that helps.

cobra1713

i had one of these and it was a great fish, very peaceful and didnt pick on any of the smaller fish, lost it to a fugus disease of some kind really miss the guy.

avendarien

I have had the same 2 golden gouramis for nearly three years, i started with 3, but when i was away one jumped out and died sadly. That being said, they can be obviously, jumpers so a hood of some sort is needed. I have kept them with 3 opaline or three spot gouramis with them for the same amount of time and have found them to be very hardy fish. I read that alot of people have had problems with aggression, this hasnt been a problem for me. Perhaps thats because ive never had fewer than 5 of mixed types so the aggression is minimal. Currently they are housed with guppies and Otos in a densely planted tank and i have no problems from them. I recommend them to anyone as a very hardy, colorful fish.

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I had one of these guys in my 55 with a blue gourami, 2 albino bristelnose plecos and 4 7" bala sharks... The gold courami bullied everyone! He had to be removed since all the bala's only had half the tank to swim before being chased to their side of the tank, many times running into the glass haha