i coldnt stop myself

[NickT]

i went to the petshop for some plants today and came back with a perl gorami!

it was a tuff battel geting him adjusted to his new home. he was afraid of all the movement in my tank. the tetras scared him, the dwarf honey's greeted him with a quick taste useing there wiskers .... the male guppys tryed to.... do what they do best . hes doing good now and is interacting with the honeys. i think that hes going to do good in my comunity since he dosnt nip or charge other fish. totaly dosile at 4 inches why dont they call these guys dwarfs?

EDIT: i still need to get the plants.......

 

[sylvia]

I love pearls
He'll probably do great if you have a peaceful community (as it seems you do) and they are such beautiful and interesting fish.
They aren't called dwarfs - dwarf gouramies are colisa lalia, pearl gouramis are trichogaster leeri... dwarfs only grow to 2 inches, pearls up to 5.

 

[Doggfather]

they aren't called dwarfs - dwarf gouramies are colisa lalia

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It's not just the colisa lalia thats considered a dwarf gourami, all members of the colisa genus are considered dwarf

 

[NickT]

he is in a peacful comunity!
i have
3x otos
7x guppys
10x neon tetras
2x honey guorami
3x khuli loaches
1x hillstraem loach
3x endlers
in a 55G
and the big boy . hes the bigest in the tank anyway and he knows it.

 

[sylvia]

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they aren't called dwarfs - dwarf gouramies are colisa lalia

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It's not just the colisa lalia thats considered a dwarf gourami, all members of the colisa genus are considered dwarf

Honey gouramies are never called dwarfs are they?

 

[fish_face]

Hi

I recently bought 2 pearl gouramis as well They are very shy and spend most of their time at the back of the tank hiding. In fact, I don't think that the male has emerged at all, have just caught a glance of him at the back. This may be because he has an inferiority complex...being that the female is about twice his size!!!

I originally wanted gold gouramis, but was told they could be a bit nippy. The pearls are apparantly more community and everyone in my tank seems pretty peaceful too.

 

[Doggfather]

They are very shy and spend most of their time at the back of the tank hiding.

When i purchased my pair of pearls they were exactly the same, but within a week or two they were out and about

Personally, i would have gone for the pearls as well, Gold gourami had tend to be a bit more aggresive

 

[NickT]

Honey gouramies are never called dwarfs are they?

Honey Dwarf Gourami
(Colisa sota)


thats what they where labeld and they grow to 2 inches so im guesing they are dwarf.

Hi

I recently bought 2 pearl gouramis as well  They are very shy and spend most of their time at the back of the tank hiding. In fact, I don't think that the male has emerged at all, have just caught a glance of him at the back. This may be because he has an inferiority complex...being that the female is about twice his size!!! 

I originally wanted gold gouramis, but was told they could be a bit nippy. The pearls are apparantly more community and everyone in my tank seems pretty peaceful too. 

i almost got the gold guorami as well . i was told the same thing about how agressive they are.

next im gonna get a neon blue dwarf i think. is there an other non dwarfs to go with this comunity?

he is in a peacful comunity!
i have
3x otos
7x guppys
10x neon tetras
2x honey guorami
3x khuli loaches
1x hillstraem loach
3x endlers
in a 55G

and the perl

 

[sylvia]

Honey dwarf gouramies are supposed to be the same species as the neon dwarf and ordinary dwarf (colisa lalia) - just different color forms.

Ordinary honey gouramies are colisa sota/chunae like yours were labelled... not dwarfs. They may have been mis-labelled.

If you get the other dwarf you'll be able to compare them. If they are realy both dwarfs they will look the same but for color. Honey gouramies look substantialy different to dwarfs.

Both grow to 2 inches

Also, 'giant' gouramies (colisa fasciata - not osphronemus goramy BTW) and the thick-lipped gourami (colisa labiosa) are also colisa species and deffinately NOT dwarfs so not all colisa species are dwarfs.

These last two I mentioned are peaceful and compatible with your current fish provided you have room for them.

Do watch the gold gourami - particularly if it's a male.

The moonlight gourami (trichogaster microlepis) is more peaceful than the gold but more aggressive than the pearl. However, the males and females look almost identical so if you could just get females it wouldn't be apparent (unlike with pearls, honeys or dwarfs) but would keep everyone peaceful. Males have pointier dorsals. Make sure you have room first though as they are the largest of all the species I mentioned.

I think there is a pinned article about different gourami species...

 

[NickT]

Ordinary honey gouramies are colisa sota/chunae like yours were labelled... not dwarfs. They may have been mis-labelled.

i got the name from live aquaria.com but the pic tehy have looks nothing like my honeys.

mine are verry orange and have no other coloration atall. teh ones they show are yellow and black/blue (witch is a sign of spawning i guess). they look like http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=35308
so they must b standard dwarfs.

edit add: https/www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Di....cfm?pCatId=992 thats the link to dwarf honey goramis... i also called the lfs and asked them what they had for the sientific name on my dwarfs.... the guy hasto call me back. he must be new.

 

[sylvia]

The gourami at liveaquaria.com is a normal honey gourami. It looks like they use the name honey dwarf gourami as well (though this seems confusing if there is also a honey dwarf gourami which is a variant of the dwarfs...).

Your gourami is most probably a standard dwarf variant rather than a honey. There are more pictures of normal honeys in the pinned labyrinth fish profiles section.

Honeys normaly look smaller and more fragile than dwarfs though they are pretty much the same size.

The blue-black color is found in breeding males but there is also a more yellow and more orange variation. I think it could simply depend on the lighting though. Dwarf honeys also may have blue but it isn't dark blue-black like the honey... it's a much lighter kind of sky/pastel blue.

I also just realised that the 'giant' gourami I mentioned before is also known by the more common name of banded gourami.