can I put other big fish with gourami
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Obsessedfishlover
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They are agressive but you can put other fish with them...
Sharpchick
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What size is the tank, and how many gouramis and other fish do you have in there? I see some plants - how densely planted are you? (By that, I mean how much floor space of the tank in a percentage number?)
The blue one looks like Trichogaster trichopterus, an opaline, to me, which can get up to 5" long, at a minimum. I don't know if your gold one is the same, but if so, you already have 2 fish that I wouldn't put in anything but a highly aquascaped (plants and rocks) tank of at least 30 gallons.
Males can be very aggressive. Most of the textbooks and websites say they will be aggressive toward other males of their species, but they can show aggression toward females also.
The blue one looks like Trichogaster trichopterus, an opaline, to me, which can get up to 5" long, at a minimum. I don't know if your gold one is the same, but if so, you already have 2 fish that I wouldn't put in anything but a highly aquascaped (plants and rocks) tank of at least 30 gallons.
Males can be very aggressive. Most of the textbooks and websites say they will be aggressive toward other males of their species, but they can show aggression toward females also.
ForZiE
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I have a gold gourami and a dwaf with other fish but they are all around the same size or smaller. I did have 1 gold gourami that was agressive that i moved on but the others i now have a peaceful tank!
I have 2 gouramis the gold one is a dwarf and I have 3 rainbow sharks 2 mollys 1 platy 4 neon tetras 3 kribs and a catfish my tank size is 3 and a half feet by 1and a half feet not sure how much gallons al upload a pic of it theres quiet alot of ground space
Sharpchick
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This is going to sound tedious, but there are more questions...
You know those rainbow sharks, who are really cute and all that when they are little, are not really sharks at all, can grow up to about 7", and will eat each other before starting in on the other fish? You may as well wave bye-bye to your neons, because they will be snacks.
What kind of catfish? (Please don't say a pictus.)
IMO, you need to decrease your open water space to about 25% of the footprint of the tank with more rocks and plants. Everyone is going to need a place to run and hide shortly with those rainbow sharks.
Until you do that, I personally would not add any more fish, and I'd be looking for other homes for those rainbow sharks.
Sharpchick
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Lotsa more plants and rock work, IMO. You might want to float some easy stem plants on the top also.
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