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I have an idea of how I want to stock my new tank when I get it, but I need a centerpiece fish to finish it off. It will be a 29 gallon tank with live plants. Right now I think I will have:

6 Zebra Danios
8 Harlequin Rasboras
6 Gold Barbs

I would like to stick to the Asian theme. I was thinking about honey gouramis, but they are not consistently stocked at my LFS. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Tanks:
10 Gallon-2 Platies

maybe just a dwarf gourami...
or another gourami of any variety would look nice with suck a lovely stock, as long as they dont get large enough toeat the harlies

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A dwarf gourami would work well.

Not many gourami get larger enough to eat fish. I wouldn't be worried about that, but some of the gourami do get too large for your tank. That said, a dwarf gourami would be good and are more common than honey gourami. On the other hand, honey gourami are pretty common; I bet they're on the wholesaler's list. You can go up to them and ask for them to order them in. One LFS here always has a tank full of them, but they DO have a whole row devoted to gourami.

What about kuhli loaches for the bottom?

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with that group, you could probably get away with a nice male betta as a centrepiece. I have one in my 10g with some harlequin raspboras and he's a beauty!

Mine is a cornflower blue male, spectacular!

Maybe instead of gold barbs, get cherry's if you go with the Betta, they are much less e to fin nippage!