Picked Up Some Female Dwarf Gouramis Today

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... from Petco of all places. Was really surprised to see them. They'll be going into a 10g guppy tank for population control. I was planning on putting RCS in the tank too but with the gourami impulse buy, I'm second guessing it. Anybody have luck keeping gouramis and shrimp together?

Here they are waiting to get acclimated to their new tank:

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Nice! I have a gourami that was in with some RC's, and the gourami would eat any shrimp not wise enough to hide itself.
 
I have 2 dwarfs in with shrimp, the adults get left alone shrimplets will get picked off though. Mine might be dumb though, Platy's had fry a few days ago and I still see quite a few of them hiding in the plants.
 
Yea dwarf are definitely shrimp eaters, not sure how good they will be at guppy population control though.
 
I'm actually worried they might be too good at population control. I'm starting off with four guppies and hoping the population picks up from there. I was thinking about breeding the dwarf gouramis in the future for experience (would love to move on to breed other gouramis like the chocolate gourami). So, would anyone here be interested in home raised dwarf gouramis in the future? I'm guessing the females might be a bit popular considering how rare they are.
 
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