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Is this normal gourami behavior?
In my 75 gallon tank I have a blue male gourami, a female pearl gourami and a male dwarf gourami. The dwarf has adopted the hornwort clump as his "corner" and one day last week when I turned on the lights, I saw him and the pearl nipping at each other's mouths. She was the instigator and I didn't see a repeat in the behavior until tonight at feeding time. She would swim up to the dwarf and almost push or nose at him and the two of them would twist in circles, nose to side. Is this courting or aggression behavior? I looked at both of them very closely and there are no nipped fins or any other signs of damage. In spite of their rep, my dwarf has been very peaceful and the blue is completely peaceful, too. Apparently it's the pearl that's the snot in this tank. Unless she's flirting... Am I going to end up with some bastard dwarf/pearl hybrids?? 
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