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Hello.

I have a tank with dimensions 18x10x10. I think its about 8gals (30 something litres). I was wondering if this would be big enough for 2 dwarf gouramis (male and female). Or maybe just one male. I've heard they can get quite stroppy with other fish.

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I thing you will find they are a schooling fish that prefer to be with their own variety.

Therefore I would not use your tank for them.

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I have to disagree with Keith. Dwarf gouramis aren't schooling fish, and can be territorial with one another if kept without sufficient room. If you can find a male/female pair, they would be fine in that tank. However, it can be difficult to find females since they aren't as "pretty" as males. A single male would also work.



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Dwarf gouramis like company a little less than they like their space. In a really big tank they would probably prefer a group but in a tank that size you'd be lucky to find 2 males that would get along well enough to still have 2 a week from now. Someone will probably be dead. I never had them bother other fish but 3 in a 20g long harassed each other to death.
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I think that you can have 2 Dwarf Gourami in that tank.




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Hi

Thanks a lot for the replies. I went to the LFS today just to have a look at the dwarf gouramis and they had 7 female gouramis for sale. I asked them how often they buy them in, they said they get 10 every 2 weeks. So i guess I have some chance at finiding myself a female.
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Would a Borneo sucker be okay with them? Those fish are truly amazing and I saw them at the LFS the other day when I went and forgot to ask.

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I believe borneo sucker is a name for one of the hillstream loaches. They are quite a specialized fish and do best in a specialized tank. They need tons of oxygen and water movement so that might conflict with gouramis which are from areas of low oxygen and slow to no current. They also prefer somewhat cooler waters and will usually die off above 78F. There's a whole section devoted to these fish on loaches.com [link=http://loaches.com/hillstream_intro.html]http://loaches.com/hillstream_intro.html" style="COLOR: #C000C0[/link] It's possible to put them in a tank with other fish but much easier if those fish like lots of water movement and possibly air stones adding bubbles. I used white cloud minnows for my hillstream tank.
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i have a 2 male dwarf gouramis in my 10g tank...no problem so far (been together for 9 mos now)... just give them some company, like small varieties for fish, true...one will dominate the other..but at nite, they cuddle. beats me!@!!
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Just leave the 2 Gouramis on their own & don't add other fish.



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Okay, so that would mean a fishless cycle? Does that mean I just set up the tank (put plants in, etc) and let the filter do the rest? During this time should I be doing any water changes?

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You can either cycle the tank fishless or with hardy fish like danios and add the gouramis later or if you are confident enough you can add the gouramis and do lots of water changes. Dwarf gouramis aren't real sensitive to ammonia and nitrites but you'd want to do lots of water changes to keep them low. The cycle would be slow and involve more work. If your planting the tank that would help tons since the plants would use up the ammonia-nitrate. Depends if you think you can get a female or not in a month or so when the tank is cycled, if you have anywhere to put 1 temporarily, how heavily you plan on planting the 15g, and how much work you want to do. You would also have to return the danios or find them another home after the tank is cycled.

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on the subject of dwarf gouramis, i just bought two males for my 55 gallon.. its stocked with mainly mollies, a common pleco, skirt tetras and danio. what i was wondering was, should i bring in some females? and if so, how do they breed? should i add more males? or should i switch up some varieties? also, i have an air wand on one end of the tank that disturbs the surface area, and the other side has a HOB filter that disturbs the surface there.. should i call the bubble wand quits?

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