I'd just like to say that the opaline gourami and gold gourami are color morphs of the blue gourami, I don't know why the opalne has a different size put down

thanks for the site links on gouramis, they are lovely ones. will be checking the sites out

why do bettas fight with gouramis

thanks lots of info that has got me a empty wallet from buying more fish yet again lol i really got to stop going to the fish shop

Because bettas willl become aggressive with fish that look like them, and some gouramis look like bettas

I love my cobalt gourami, The irredecent vertical red and blue striped are breathtaking.

since when are paradise considered gouramis?

A lot of people seem to think that just because a fish is not called a 'gourami' it doesn't belong in the same group. Having said that, paradisefish (macropodus opercularis) also circulate under the common name of 'paradise gourami'.

Anyway, by deffinition, a 'gourami' is a fish from the family 'osphronemidae' or sometimes 'belontidae' (depending on how up-to-date your sources are ). The family is devided into a few subfamilies and these further devided into several genera. These not only include the common 'trichogaster', 'colisa' and 'trichopsis' genera from which we get three-spots, pearls, dwarf, honey and croaking gouramies, it also includes fish often not considered gouramies such as those belonging to the genera 'betta', 'macropodus' and 'ctenops' which includes the paradisefish as well as the various betta species including b. splendens and, the aptly named frail gourami ctenops nobilis.

Another related family of fish are the 'anabantidae' which include the ctenopoma and anabas genera. A lot of the fish found in the 'gourami' family were once classed in this family. These are not gouramies but very similar in many ways.

So to answer your question, paradisefish have always been gouramies. It's the common name (which is entirely irrelevant) that confuses matters. They could be called blueberry pies and they'd still be gouramies.

edit: because not all the species names were in italics

This post has been edited by sylvia: Nov 9 2005, 07:21 PM

[quote name='SimonA' date='Aug 30 2004, 07:18 AM' post='449913']
So the betta people Have a topic of site's for betta's so Lets have a topic of Gourami Info. Just post the link in here And I will edit this message.

Sites/Pages

Practical Fish Keeping | Go for gouramis - Article
Breeding gouramis
About.com Articles & Resources on Gouramis

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Well heres a list of gouramies, And a little info on them, so hope this helps.

Banded Gourami





I just purchased a tattoed gourami (that's what they told me it was). Does anyone have any information on them or a picture. I took one here at home of it. I will post it later.

It would be better to post that in the main section rather than in this thread. I'll google 'tattooed' gourami and see if it turns up a scientific name meanwhile. But a picture would be best.

Hi jlunde96

Welcome to the forum!

Tattooing is the current "in" term for the cruel practice of injecting dyes into a fish for decorative purposes. It is sometimes done to gouramis. Here's a link that shows a picture of one. Just scroll down to the "Polka Dot Gourami" to see an example of it.

http://www.deathbydyeing.org/colormedead.htm

betta abd gourami fan here....used to have a male betta but unfortunetly he died of old age.....just started with gouramis and i love them....just last week i successfully breeded an opaline and a gold gourami....more then 200 frys....hopefully when i got more room and money i will start to bred bettas...but for now...gouramis rock!!

I just realized I got ripped off at wal-mart. That's what happens when a guy who works at electronics gets your fish.I was supposed to get a dwarf gourami, which is 6.00, but he gave me a danded gourami, which is worth 4.00. I don't really care about the money, I just think they should get people to work at the fish section who can tell what fish they are, and get the right ones.

hello...
yes i agree gourami`s are lovely fish , i just got 4 ther other day but im abit unsure what type they are and how big they get, my girlfriend bought them and didnt assk wot they were ya see. 2 of them are orange with a lovely blue tail which really stands out (LFS said they are honey gourami`s but theyre not the same as the pic that was displayed earlier) so id like 2 know what they are and how big they get, also she bought 2 bright yellow beautiful gourami`s which are alot larger than the orange ones. id like 2 know what theyre called and how big they get as i think theyre guna be big ones.
id really appreciate it if u cud help me, thanks
LEO


MY AQUARIUM
3 clown loaches, 3 cory`s, 1 common plec (if theres another name for the common plec cud u let m kno plz) , 8 neons, 2 blue rams, 2 honey gourami`s, 2 ytellow gourami`s ? , red tailed shark and 3 candy loaches ( botia something?? ) (plz cud u help me identify the candy loach aswell as im not 2 sure wot the proper name is. thanks