[Got Fish?]

I'm thinking of putting a dwarf gourami, as my centerpiece fish in my 36 gallon, along with two anglefish, 6 serpas, 2 glassbloodfins, 1 pleco and 6 cardinals...is this a good mix, or myabe no???

 

[ILuvMyGoldBarb]

Well, the Dwarf won't be the cause of the problems but it almost certainly will have problems. I would bet on the Serpaes taking a few shots at those nice long fins and feelers. They are not going to terrorize it but most certainly will take the occasional nip, just enough to keep a little bit of stress in its life.

 

[Got Fish?]

HAHAHA yea, they try to do that with my anglefish, but he just smacks them with his fins

 

[KDahlin]

I put a couple sparkling pygmy gouramis in my 56 gallon; they are REALLY meek and dainty fish. It took awhile for them to feel safe enough to venture out from behind the plants and mix with the other fish. I have Emperor tetras, Espe's rasboras, Apistos, Otocinclus', shrimp, and a clown pleco in there, nothing to harm the gouramis. The dwarf gourami is probably not as timid, they're bigger for one.

 

[Got Fish?]

do the gouramis prefer to be with more than on eof its species???

 

[ILuvMyGoldBarb]

Not really. Most Gouramis do fine with just a single specimen. Dwarf Gouramis do fine in groups but a group is not necessary. You only start running into problems with gouramis when you get more than one male of the regular size grouamis, the only exception to that is the Pearl Gourami. With Dwarfs this is not a problem.

 

[Got Fish?]

aight, how big will it get about 3 inches???

 

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also are they live breeders, or egg layers???

 

[p3purr]

Egglayers in bubblenests: http://freshaquarium.about.com/cs/anabantids2/p/dwarfgourami.htm

I noticed you also have a pleco in your tank. Is it one of the smaller ones? If it's a common or one of the others that get bigger than 5 inches it will either be to large for your tank or really push your stocking limits.

Patricia

 

[Got Fish?]

its definatly a common, pleco, what should id o with it once it grows to big for my tank throw it out....????

 

[James From Cali]

You can give it to your LFS if they will accept it for Store Credit or try finding someone locally that can house it properly.

 

[RoseHawke]

Had Serpaes at one point. We were not sad when they succumbed to a tank disaster :icon_evil .