Incogneto21
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So I'm considering on adding an Irradescent Shark, 4 more colored Guppies and 3 different colored Duarf Gouramis. Would these fishes get along in the same tank?
What size tank do you have? An iridescent shark gets to be 2-3 feet long and needs a 500 gallon tank. They really shouldn't be sold in the hobby IMHO.
I have a 29g. There so beautiful! I had on before for almost 3 years and he died of Ick from a sick fish. :/ my iridescent shark was very friendly with my guppies.
This ↑↑↑↑I would rethink the dwarf gouramis. They are very lovely, but they are often very fragile, having developed a reputation for dying suddenly for no apparent reason. It may be inbreeding, it may be something else, but often they do not last long. Honey gourami might be better, if you are set on a small gourami. They are dwarf too, but not quite as fragile, so far as I know. I have not kept one.
Dwarf Gourami also need heavy floating plant cover, very quiet water, with little current, and lots of planted plants. Wood and rocks are good too, anything to break up sight lines so the fish don't feel exposed. They get badly stressed by too much water movement or wide open spaces. Males may spar if females are present, and even if they are not present.
I love the look of these fish but have stopped trying to keep them. It is just too costly and very depressing to have them suddenly die, which happened to every single one I had. I was trying to breed them, needless to say, without success.
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Seems you are agreeing more or less. As I said, I've no experience with the honey gourami, only mentioned it in case the OP was determined to have a dwarf gourami. Many prefer the bright coloured variants of the Dwarf G. and I can understand why. They are lovely. Just darn near impossible to keep alive for any length of time. I've yet to hear of one that lived much past a year at most, though I am sure some of them do live longer than that.