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I am setting up a 10 gallon in my living room and plan on having 1 dwarf gourami in it. My question is what else can Iput with this gourami in a 10 gallon? Thanks in advance for any help.

There are so many options for your tank. For a little while, I had a 10 gallon tank with 1 dwarf gourami and cherry barbs (2 pairs). The gourami was blue, and the male barbs were bright red. It looked awsome.

Of course there are tons of other choices...tetras, cories, livebearers...

Depending on the Dwarf Gouramie i wouldnt keep him/or with male guppies. I HAD my DG in with my gupppies until he just started nipping the fins of my male guppy!

but they do have their own personalties.

hth

I would recommend a 4-6 tetras. They're easy to care for and they will get along with the DG. You have a lot of options though.

Nemo

Half a dozen Harliquin Rasboras would go well in there. Maybe add a few Ghost Shrimp for a clean-up crew too

Sin

I had a couple aggressive dwarves, too, so it's important to know his/her temperament.

I'd go with some schoolers.

bettas are a good idea

I agree with Bettachris, bettas would be a good addition to the tank, but that depends on your gourami's size. You could keep one beautiful male or a small school of females in there to make it look very pretty! But be careful since some gouramies may nip at the male's long flowing fins .
So I suggest the females.

No, generally gouramis and bettas don't go well together. They are both labyrinth fish, and take up the same strata of the tank. This leads to territory aggression.

I'd suggest livebearers or a school of something. Maybe cardinals, small cories, or harly rasboras. There are tons of schooling fish to choose from.

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bettas are a good idea

Urm, I hope that's a joke .... & if it is it's not very funny...

Betta's & Dwarf Gourami's are both terratorial and both have the potential to be agressive. Kept in something the size of a 10G you're just asking for dead fish with that combination.

Sin

i disagree with that, my female dwarf gouramis and my male betta got along fine together in a heavily planted 10g tank

The key words in that post - Female and Heavily planted RC. Female gouramis are generally more tollerant than males, and chances are you just have a male betta who has a decent temprament, And in a heavily planted tank there are both hiding places & terratorial devides... A female generally won't stake out terratory in the same way a male would, but the break up of the tank would allow your male betta to feel more secure that his turf wasn't being invaded, thereby basically eliminating his need to show any agression towards your female gourami.
There are exceptions to every rule, and your case is just that, the exception rather than the rule. There are people who have sucessfully kept multiple Male Bettas together too, but you wouldn't recomend to to someone... especially without knowing their experience with these sorts of fish, or what the tempraments of the individual fish were.

My point was simply that the statement "bettas are a good idea" is both vague and largly inaccurate.

Sin