JohnB

Has anyone seen anything in their travels called this? They are dwarf size but look like a cross between blue and sunset gouramis.
Thanks
John B

Cherrry123

Yes at the local Wal-Mart, their pretty cool looking. Thats when I got Millie, My Neon Dwarf Gourami.

Drea

John, I have a paradise gourami. He's a great fish, really a well tempered tank mate (as you can see in my list of tank residents) Also if you click on my camera, there is 1 or 2 pics of "Pilot". He and my other gourami George get along great.

JohnB

I would take it that the males have the nice colors? # of the 4 I got were grab and the mone smaller one had some nice orange on its gill plates.

Drea

You will see them get more colorful as they become comfortable in your tank. There are sometimes when my Pilot is so vibrant, he looks like someone painted him..I've never seen a female, so I don't know if they have less color.
You got 4? What else are you putting them with (if anybody) By the way, what size is the tank?

MissMTS

They have them at my LFS and they are beautiful fish

JohnB

Current just cycled a 55 hex tank. have 6 danios and 4 paradise gouramis and 2 cory cats.

Jacko

Not to be a party pooper, but Paradise Gourami (or Paradisefish as it is called in my LFS) are much more like betta males than gouramies, in other words, they really can't stand their own kind. I'd say no more than 2 in a 55 gallon hex since there isn't as much surface area for them than in a 55 gallon regular.

To differentiate between male and female, the males usually have longer fins and are darker and will flare like a betta but the females won't.

I currently have both a male Blue Paradise and a suspected male Black Paradise. I love the black to death, he is so odd even though he ate half my RCS population.

FishPerson

do male dwarf gourami's of different coloration do okay with eachother, or is it best just to stick to the 1 male/2 female thing?

Jacko

Male gouramies are still male gouramies. They are all Colisa lalia and the males can tell the difference between each other and know that the other is a male. Females are near impossible to find though, they are usually less colorful but sometimes you end up with getting a dominant male and a less colorful fish that ends up being another male. The only place I have heard of getting female DG's in is Walmart, never seen them anywhere else.

Blub

FishPerson

so what about a couple of honey gouramis? would that work out about the same?

Blub

FishPerson

so could i get 5 or so honey gouramis (seeing as they get to be about 2" at adult size), not caring about the gender?

Jacko

I would still do a little bit of gender dividing, say 2 males and 3 females because they are still slightly aggressive, but other than that I would say it is fine, I love my little honey gouramies back when I kept them in a 10 gallon.

FishPerson

so how will i tell the females from the males?

Blub