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Will this be good or will it be a tail nipping mistake?
Thanks in advance
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Do you mean Gourami? If you have a well planted tank with lots of hiding places. What size tank were you thinking about?

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What is the tanks size?. If you have a small & crowded tank, there will be some nipping.



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Its a twenty gallon tank, with a few but going to be more live plants and fake plants. There are 4 guppies three platies and 6 corys. Maybe another platy soon i'm not sure.
and yes i meant gouramies
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-NewBreeder16

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uhmmmm...i dunno...sounds a bit nippy depending on the gourami. i would say getting a single sunset dwarf gourami(mine is a wuss, just get them from a community tank, and watch how they interact with other fish at the LFS) if the gourami was a dwarf and was nice, it should be ok, but a full size gourami might mess them up. also if you keep two male gouramis together expect fights, and lots of them, they are labrynth fish after all.

EDIT: i just read what your current stock is and your plan to add another platty. you are overstocked as it is. if it was me for the sake of the fish i wouldnt even add another platty, let lone thow some semi agressive fish that get 3" in a tank that already has 3 fish that can outgrow your 20 just by themselves, along with guppies and a school of corys.

Last edited by reun at 20-Jan-2006 15:16

I have kept guppies with gouramis very successfully.
I have never noticed any nipping.


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Out Grow!? Platies? they only get two inches long. Never heard of them outen a twenty gallon.
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some platies, espescially females get very
hefty, but I dont think they will outgrow a 20g.
A 10 maybe, a 20 now.
4 Guppies
3 Platies
6 Cories
1 Dwarf Gourami.

That sounds fine to me.


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Thanks ,sneaky. To be safe I have been considering moving a few fish around, like my prize guppies, for safety reasons.
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