Sparkling Gouramis

[Baccus]

Hello all, I have kept gouramis before but never sparkling

I recently purchased 4 sparkling gouramis and have put them in my well planted 4ft tank of roughly 213L capacity, with only a couple of young Bristle noses, and a mix of corydoras as company, oh and a couple of cherry shrimp. Any way the place I ordered the fish from, has had a little glitch in their system and they have accidentally resent me my entire order of plants and fish so now I have an extra 4 sparkling gouramis another 4 corydoras julii and mixed plant selection.

So my question is will it be ok to have all 8 sparkling gouramis together or are they likely to fight once they all mature. Only one of the 8 looks close to 4cm the other 7 are around the 2-3cm mark.

I contacted the company about the mix up and they have told me keep the fish and plants at no extra cost, which I am rather happy about as I didn't fancy packing them up again and resending them in the post. I just hope the sparkling gouramis can all stay together as my only other tanks are either full of my husands guppies grr: ) or already has a siamese fighter in residence and he is happy patroling his 4ft tank with just a couple of adult bristle noses, corydoras sterbai and cherry shrimp for company.


Thanks for any advice

 

[KittyKat]

I have had best success keeping about 15 sparking gouramis in a 4ft, heavily planted tank. They bred for me often and there were enough plants that the males did not fight.

In smaller groups, I found that males did fight often.

Corys are schooling, so it is better for the fish that you have 8 now. (I used to breed C. triliniatus in with the gouramis.)

 

[coldcazzie]

Hello all, I have kept gouramis before but never sparkling

I recently purchased 4 sparkling gouramis and have put them in my well planted 4ft tank of roughly 213L capacity, with only a couple of young Bristle noses, and a mix of corydoras as company, oh and a couple of cherry shrimp. Any way the place I ordered the fish from, has had a little glitch in their system and they have accidentally resent me my entire order of plants and fish so now I have an extra 4 sparkling gouramis another 4 corydoras julii and mixed plant selection.

So my question is will it be ok to have all 8 sparkling gouramis together or are they likely to fight once they all mature. Only one of the 8 looks close to 4cm the other 7 are around the 2-3cm mark.

I contacted the company about the mix up and they have told me keep the fish and plants at no extra cost, which I am rather happy about as I didn't fancy packing them up again and resending them in the post. I just hope the sparkling gouramis can all stay together as my only other tanks are either full of my husands guppies grr: ) or already has a siamese fighter in residence and he is happy patroling his 4ft tank with just a couple of adult bristle noses, corydoras sterbai and cherry shrimp for company.


Thanks for any advice

wow! lucky you! I think the extra plants will come in handy to plant the tank up more and hopefully help prevent the gouramis fighting. And of course, more cories will only make the cories happier