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My sister loves gouramis and wants to add one to one of her tanks. At the moment she has a 15 gallon tank and will also be setting up a 12 gallon tank when she comes back from school. The 15 gallon has a couple danios, male guppies and two mollies. The 12 gallon (same surface area as a 10 gallon) will be home to a bunch of ADF's.

Not sure which one she wants to put a gourami in (probably both if she has any say about it!), but I was wondering what species you thought would be the proper fit for each tank. I'm assuming a dwarf gourami would be the best fit for the 12 (she's not big into the pygmy/sparkling gouramis), but what about the 15? It has the same surface area as a 20 gallon.

She loves blue (three-spot) gouramis, but I'm thinking that would be too big for her tanks. Am I right?

~Meow. Thus spoke the cat.~

Yup, a six inch adult blue gourami would be too large for both of those tanks, as would any of the blue gourami's color forms. Either dwarf, licorice, or honey gouramis would work in both of those tanks, because of their small size and peaceful nature.

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how about a chocolate gourmis

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Sounds like fun choices... I'll have to run them by her. Too bad she doesn't particularly care for like, paradise fish or sparkling gouramis... I think I've actually seen those in our LFS.

Thanks for the info!

~Meow. Thus spoke the cat.~

I'd not put a paradise fish in there. They can be really nasty and fond of sucking fishs' eyeballs out.

Dwarf gourami or honey gourami for either one.