Gourami Friends

[dorifish]

I have a Dwarf Gourami in a 10g tank with two pygmy cory and some tiny snails that need pH of 7 or above or their shells disintegrate. Any fish that would keep my Gourami and cory's company?

(please no aggresive fish or fin-nippers)

Also my gourami is i guess you'e call it "pacing" but he's swimming back and forth over and over in the front of the tank, how can i get him to calm down?

 

[smegforbrains]

Another ten Pygmy Corys would be a smart move IMO/


They are amazing to watch as they shoal

 

[Reesy1989]

I have two dwarf gouramis and they play with eachother or my mollies.

To be honest they kinda shoal around together. The bigger gourami will stay at the top asserting his authority where as the small will play with the mollies. As you only have 1 gourami he may be more willing to play with them.

Mollies are very active and swim everywhere really fast!

Lovely to watch and all 3 of mine are pregnant lol

 

[chefrossco]

plattys, mollys, other dwarf goramai- red robin , honey ect, also german blue rams would do well

 

[dorifish]

thank so much! I think i'm leaning toward mollies...

 

[joshjames]

dont put german blue rams in a 10 gallon
they will need there space

 

[fish.com1]

dont put german blue rams in a 10 gallon
they will need there space

Yes a 10 gallon is too small for rams. Some pgymy rasboras would be cool.

 

[stevey87]

Harlequin Rasboras. I would say about 6 minimum. I had 6 and then added 4 more and I find that the more there are, better they shoal together. I know they don't like being alone because when I put my first group in, they were all disoriented and they started shoaling together except one that was lost and I couldn't find it for awhile until I found out he was hiding under ornament and when he finally found the others, he wasn't scared anymore.

 

[Reesy1989]

You'll find that with most shoaling fish. I mean with my tetras I put 10 into my brand new tank with my betta. The betta was purposely swiming to where the tetras were and flare and stressing them out and they eventually all died bar 3.

So in my tank now there was a betta and 3 tetras. The tetras did not shoal they kind of drifted to different side of the tank. However about a month later i put 10 more glowlights in and they were back to their normal selves shoaling as part of a group.