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thinking of doing a planted gourami and angel tank in my 125. give me some suggestions on how to stock the gouramis and with wich kind. I can find no info on how many to keep at a time or wich ratio of sex to keep.


chris

Just as something to ponder, I'm no expert on how many in a tank, I just experiment.

But I have 2 Opaline Gourami and 6 angels in my 150g tank. as far as sexing them and how many, that I still havent figured out. The gouramis get along fine. My angels have started to claim territory tho. But not alot of fighting going on.

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Hi there,
with Gouramis, you want to limit the tank to only
1 male gourami, and you can have as many females
as you want. Pretty much same goes for any of the more common gourami species, like blues, opalines, golds (all same species), platinum, snakeskin, dwarf etc.
I dont know about the more rare gouramis.
In most gourami species, females have much more rounded fins and shorter, and in some species females are less colorful (like dwarfs where females are a pinky plain color with faint striping).

For angelfish, the larger the group, the more aggression with be spread out throughout and not targetted on one fish.
6-8 angels would be appropriate. They are difficult to sex at the best of times, though there are some tricks to it.


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i was thinking about 6 angels, 5 4-5 inch gouramis, 15 sepere tetra's, and 3 synodontis cat fish that already reside in the tank. With a background filled with nice tall sword plants and drift wood under 250 watts of fluro lighting.


chris