I have a gold gourami in a 37 gallon with silver hatchetfish, neon tetras, agazzi corys and a rubber lipped pleco. The gourami bullys the corys and the hatchets. I was think of moving the gourami to my 55 with a sen. Bichir, brown knife and leopard cntepoma. How do you think the gourami would be in that tank? If I do it I'm going to add knew plants and move the rocks around so any territorial spots will be changed. What do you think?
compatability question
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I don't think the sen bichir will be a problem, brown knifes ive seen both good and bad, and not sure about the leopard
The sen is about 6 6.5 inches the gourami is a little over 4. There's no way the sen could eat the gourami. My knife is very very mellow and hides in caves 75% of the time. The cntenopoma has chased the knife for maybe 2 seconds or two or the 3 different occasions over the course of 5 months or so. All the fish in the big tank seem to be very very mellow. I just wonder if the gourami will mellow out around fish he can't mess with. He's pretty calm most of the time in the smaller tank but I know hatchets are sensitive and I don't want them to be stressed needlessly.
Definitely try it. If it doesn't work out there's no reason you can't just switch him back! I don't think anyone should give the gourami problems. and vise versa
Do it. My opaline is in with 2 sens a firemouth and an ABK, only thing he bullies a bit is the firemouth who is fast enough to get away anyways