Are these fish compatible?

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cichlid2006;3144022; said:
the blue gourami and the rams will be fine. its the balloon molly i would be worried about. they cannot swim at a great pace so if the the rams or gourami get mean it will have no way to escape. feeding could also be rough on the balloon mollies as both rams and blue gourami are very enthusiastic feeders.
normal mollies will be fine but i would not use teh balloon type. of course there is the ethical concerns with such fish too but thats your choice to, or not to, support such deformities.
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i agree, rams can defend themselves but molly is a peaceful fish.
 
Get a female blue gourmi = problem solved. Only the males are territorial. The anal fin on the females will be shorter and round. I bought a male blue gourmi and he's pretty aggressive. He tried to bite my young bichir within 5 min of being set free. I was getting ready to net him out when the bichir bit him back. Bichir's must bite a lot harder becasue the gourmi kept to himself after that.
 
lol everybody was saying the problem might be the rams and the blue gourami and my rams and gourami get along perfectly fine but my Balloon molly is bullying my blue gourami! I think thats why the gourami is swimming so wierd and isnt very active everytime she goes out the balloon molly goes after her =( i would think it would be the opposite but yea and to think i would've never even got the balloon molly if i knew that they were so deformed by us
 
Blue Gouramis can be aggressive (even females) if you introduce a new one into another gourami's territory. My female pair go after each other every time food hits the water.
 
im not getting another blue gourami the one i have is a female i don't need to go get another one she is very peaceful but she's always getting picked on by the balloon molly she cant even swim around she's either hiding or getting chased by the molly so im returning the molly 2morrow
 
I'm not going to be able to do it 2morrow the best i can do is put the balloon molly in the fish net and close the tank hood on it. but i'm not going to be able to return her anytime soon and i have no fish stores around me what should i do? the blue gourami is really stressed out from the balloon molly im not going to let the molly back out into the tank
 
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