Confused about appearance of a gourami

[TKOS]

So I bought to Gouramis. They fit well with my tank paramtiters. They were listed in a tank as Flame Honey and Chocolate (both called pygmy gouramis at the store). The only problem is that I don't know which is which. I know that sounds silly but the fish store didn't know either. And there are no pictures on this site. Does anyone know where I can find good pictures to look at these fish. They seem to be pretty happy in the tank and I am sure they already know which they are but it might be fun for me as well.

Thanks

[Kirin Fang]

Here is a Chocolate Gourami:

http://www.holymackeral.net/GRAPHICS/Choc_gour_Sphaerichthys_osphromenoides.jpg

And here is a Dwarf Honey Gourami:

http://www.aquabid.com/uploads/fw1053689645.jpg

[Hebdizzle]

There are such things as flame gouramis, and honey gouramis.... but I've never heard of a flame-honey gourami.


Flame Gourami

http://fins.actwin.com/species/index.php?t=9&i=225

Chocolate Gourami

http://www.petresources.net/fish/anaban/sph_osp.html

Honey Gourami

http://userpages.umbc.edu/~rrhudy1/honey.htm

[Haggisman]

Chocolate gouramies are apparently very sensitive to water parameters and difficult to keep alive.

[TKOS]

Thanks for the pictures. That was what I thought they looked like but the store had them the other way around. The "Flame Honey" they had was just a dwark flame.

We don't have many problems with our water quality so hopefully the Chocolate will be happy, though I wish the store had also mentioned that they liked to be in groups. I am reluctant to go out and buy more of them if they are too hardy. But they are very attractive fish.

[SnakeIce]

From my experience chocolates react adversly to any mettals in the water. and that they are livelyer in acidic water-seem to be hardier that way

[TKOS]

Yes, right now the chocolate is a little slow but he is steady. My pH is a little high right now, but I think that has to do with the shells I was using for decoration. I will be taking these out to hopefully lower things a bit.

Anyone else have any advice about chocolate gouramis?

[wetmanNY]

The real Honey Gourami is Colisa chuna aka C. sota. It is small, but they shouldn't have been calling it "dwarf" because that describes closely-related C. lalia. The all-red "aquarium" mutation of a Dwarf Gourami C. lalia is properly a "Flame Gourami", while a mutation (or hybrid) Colisa fasciata is a "Sunset" Gourami.

Hybridizers are hard at work blurring all these Colisa lines into a "Bouillabaisse Gourami."