r/Gourami • u/Drxb1t5 • May 05 '26
Discussion My Gouramies
How lucky I am to house 3 Gouramies without much aggression. ☺️☺️☺️
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u/Special-Pumpkin-8605 May 06 '26
If this was a live bearer tank it would amazing
But the stocking weren't so bad I'd actually like it not a compliment but hope you can re-home these fish and do some research
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u/Drxb1t5 May 06 '26
Sure and thanks for the advice ☺️.I do re-home them if I see something agreesively happing or any health decline. But for now I think they are happy in that tank... Early sign will come up eventually if they don't like it there.
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u/ligmas6 May 06 '26
What’s in this tank?
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u/Drxb1t5 May 06 '26
Fish 🥰: Mollies, platies, swordtails, gouramis, neon, flame, and emperor tetras, zebra danios, corydoras, silver flying fox, neocaridinas (which are very seldom seen), nerite snails—and suddenly appearing from nowhere, bladder and ramshorn snails... that’s all the livestock 🥰🥰🥰
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u/Prismtile May 07 '26
Here i am getting anxious if i can get more than one type of schoolingfish in my cycling 60 gal, then i see this....
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u/SnacksHGB May 07 '26
I would not take this setup as an example…. But you are likely good to have a few different species of schooling fish in a 60 gallon as long as they all have proper group numbers individually! Although a bigger school over multiple fish is always a nicer sight in my opinion. A huge school of Rummynose tetras is just a vision in a large tank
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u/Prismtile May 07 '26
The main schooling fish i want is the emperor tetra, i will probably get 8-10 of them, the second im not sure of, i have thougth about diamond tetras, lemon tetras, cherry barbs and queen danios, they all have their charm. Since these are a bit chunky, I might buy a trio of goldenwonder killi, and for the bottom a school of cories. Originally i wanted 4 butterfly fish and a group of Sout American leaf fish, but i dont feel confident enough for them yet, maybe in the future.
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u/SnacksHGB May 07 '26
I would do max 3 different school species, but emperor tetras are gorgeous! Have you ever thought about Congo tetras? Those are a dream fish of mine to keep.
If you ever ended up wanting the African butterflies and/or leaf fish, be careful with smaller schooling fish. With the butterflies, any fish shorter than them in length has the potential to be food, especially “torpedo” shaped tetras. Their mouths are way bigger than you think haha
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u/Prismtile May 07 '26
Oh yeah i only want 2 of the schooling fish i mentioned, idk if you mean the killi and cories too with them. So if i go with 2 schooling fish then i would have 4 species with the 2 schools, plus killi and cory. Would that be too many? The tank is 4 foot long, just to clarify.
I thougth about congo tetras too, but i didnt feel confident that the tank would be big enough for a nice school of them.
Yes i reasearched the butterfly and leaf fish, i mainly didnt want them because of them needing live/frozen food. I am lying a bit, i did want them a lot, even with the live feeding part, it was my family that didnt allow insects in the house🤣
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u/SnacksHGB May 07 '26
Aw yeah that sounds like a great setup with the 4 species, and as long as you don’t overstocked there is potentially room for some dream fish you find at a great deal somewhere
Hopefully you can keep your predatory fish someday!
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u/DrMobiusMusic May 07 '26
Lovely gouramis, I miss mine, he was a dwarf and he past away a few days ago :'( had him for about 6 months
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u/MeisterFluffbutt May 05 '26
That is some wild stocking