evil blue gourami

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eastybeasty

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Nov 15, 2011
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hi guys

well i thought i better start a new post as the other isnt that relevant now. the other ram sadly died overnight leaving the gourami alone again in our 140L tank. i think its a female although was still aggressive with the rams although left our leopard climbing perch alone (that has also died, think the tank had't fully cycled although we thought it had - note to selves, far more testing of water is needed in future to make sure the cycling has finished).

Once the tank has definitely cycled what's best to do? Do we try and get more gourami and hope that the aggression is kept to its own species or would one gourami be ok on its own with other species? I've been looking at suggestions for other thankmates online but everything I read just seems to contradict the last advice, then again fish are way more unpredictable than I ever realised! Any advice would be great, not going to rush into the next fish but need to start working on a battle plan!
 
my wife has blue and gold gourami's in it along with a african knife,elephant nose,multi cats,african butterfly and a bushy nose.there aggression stays only with each other except for the knife fish.
 
What I heard is that blues can be aggressive when young an towards smaller fish. Might want to get a pair male/female. I have a pair of pearls in my community tank an they don't bother the other fish. The male will chase the female every now an the but nothing major.
 
Every gourami I have owned was aggressive except for the yellow ones, and the red/blue ones..

Pearls are the worst!!
 
Alrighty..

When I first started the fish hobby (as an adult), I bought a 75 gallon tank.. added some crappy red/black/white stones, fake plants, the works.. haha. So, I stocked it with a red tailed shark, a yellow gourami, and the red/blue mixed ones.. They all did great, except they died. Go petsmart!

Anywho.. now, I've got this 30 gallon planted tank. At the time, it was barely stocked.. had a male and female betta.. some snails.. and 5 small cardinal tetras. Within minutes of adding the pearl gourami 3 he killed 3 of my cardinal tetras, and he attacked my betta to the point that it seemed like it had a heart attack, and it died within like 2 hours. Then I added 2 small angel fish.. it killed the smallest of the 2. At that point, he got moved to my 125 with the big boys.. my palm sized silver dollars and tin foil barbs, and my earth eaters. The silver dollars were all forced in the corner by this one small pearl gourami.. then one day... someone decided to have the gourami for lunch. Case Closed.

Pearl Gouramis are beautiful fish, and I would love to own more of them, but after that experience no way.
 
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