Angels, Gouramis, Rainbows

UncaBret

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Has anyone tried the three of these together?

No one in town has or is willing to order a 30 breeder for me so I am going for the 40 breeder. It will be heavily planted with lots of rocks(purple string optional) and a few pieces of driftwood.

I'm thinking 2-4 angels, 4-5 rainbows, and a couple of the 4" gourami (blue, gold, opal).
Cleanup crew is unsure, so far. A small pleco and a few corys maybe?
 
UncaBret said:
Has anyone tried the three of these together?

I have, or should say had, gourami's and angel's together. The gourami's harrased the hell out of them even though they were roughly the same size. I just today moved the angel's to their own tank because they gourami's were starting to damage their fins from all the nipping. I won't put these two fish together again. :coffee2:
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uddave99 said:
UncaBret said:
Has anyone tried the three of these together?

I have, or should say had, gourami's and angel's together. The gourami's harrased the hell out of them even though they were roughly the same size. I just today moved the angel's to their own tank because they gourami's were starting to damage their fins from all the nipping. I won't put these two fish together again. :coffee2:
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What kind of Gourami's did you have?
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I've had all three together, I didn't have any problems. The gouramis were dwarfs though and that could make a diference.

Abraham
 
I had as part of a 72G.
- 2 angels
- 4 pearl gouramis
- 8 boesemani rainbows

All were put in as juvenilles eight months ago. The angels are now 4" big, doing very well. Two of the rainbows died, probably just as random aquarium casualty, since the other rainbows are doing great.

The pearl gouramis reached adulthood quickly - from 1.5" to 3" in three to four months. They're the most beautiful fish in the tabk. It turned out I had one male and three females. I could see the belly of the female fattening up with eggs. Unfortunately the tank environment didn't allow them to proceed with mating and reproduction. One by one, the females died about a month apart. The lone male died shortly afterwards.

No I don't think the three types of fish are incompatible since they don't bother others at all, but it will be difficult to set up an environment suitable for all three. The rainbows are fast moving fish roaming around all the time. The gouramis mostly stayed at the top, quiet corners of the tank.

One remaining question I have:
When fishes reach maturity and are ready to reproduce, how harmful is it to them not having an environment to proceed with reproduction?
 
Gouramis and Rainbows
A Short Story by Roan Art

Once upon a time, a small school of Boesemani rainbowfish lived with a blue and a gold gourami.
The rainbows were a peaceful bunch, but the two biggest females bickered a lot with each other.
One day, they got into a big tussel.
They were spinning and nipping at eatch others sides.
The blue gourami decided to join in.
The biggest female was no more.
The blue gourami was removed.
The next day, the gold gourami decided he didn't like the other female rainbow.
The second female rainbow was no more.
There are no more gouramis living with the peaceful rainbows.

The End

Roan Art
 
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Wow, a honey gourami killed a boesemani? I never would have thought......

Unca - I think you'll love the 40 BR, it is a great size to work with and offers a lot of surface area. As for the fish combo, I wouldn't try putting gouramis and angels together myself. Not to say that it couldn't work, but I think there's a good chance that there would be chaos.
 
Aqualung said:
Wow, a honey gourami killed a boesemani? I never would have thought......
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Lemme clarify: GOLD gourami, gold three spot gourami, not honey gourami.

The gold gourami's name was Honey, so I keep calling it a honey gourami. Not the same thing, of course, my bad.

When I walked in the biggest female had already ripped a good portion of scales off the second one, and the biggest one was missing a few scales as well. They were *really* going at it. When the blue stepped in, he went after the biggest one, who wasn't as badly hurt. But they were both whaling on her. I removed both the blue and my girl, but my girl didn't make it. It happened so fast I didn't even have time to intervene.

I never would have thought the gold one would even do something like that, so I left the smaller one in the tank. Next morning she was dead and the gold gourami had some injuries.

Now, we do have a dwarf gourami in with my son's rasboras, rummy nose and silver dollars and I have had no problems with Bubbles. I would put him in with my rainbows any day. Just not the three-spot gouramis.

Roan
 
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