cam

Can a dwarf gourami be kept with 2 or 3 zebra danios?

Tom

It usually isn't recommended but there have been stories of them being together. What size is the tank?
Tom

cam

It's 10 gallons

Tom

I would just get some more danios and maybe some cories and otos.
Tom

cam

i really wanted the dwarf gourami so if i changed the zebra danios to something like tetras maybe could that work...

Tom

You would still be running a risk since most tetras are fin nippers also.
Tom

cam

Well do you know of any good fish to keep with a dwarf gourami?

thanks for help...

Tom

Some cories and otos would be great tank mates for a dwarf gourami.
Tom

Wolfgang8810

barbs are good too (5 or more)

Tom

Not with gouramis. They are some of the most horrible fish to add with a gourami.
Tom

Wolfgang8810

they work with mine no nips at all

Semantic Drift

Yeah, the long pelvic-fin "feelers" are perfect targets for any nippy fish.

I've had good luck with platys with my gold gourami who is about three inches long. They don't seem to bother eachother at all. Maybe it's because the platys do not feel threatened by the pretty small gourami, who isn't much bigger than they. Other livebearers (mollies, guppies, swordtails, variatus) might behave similarly.

I have another tank with a gourami and cories and otos, and they get along famously - the otos aren't even fazed with the gourami feeling them up with his antennae.

I am really partial to cories, myself. Get three of them, and their personalities will really come out. They're more like puppies than fish, and you can watch them graze all day, burrowing into the gravel and wiggling their cute little barbels.

Callum The Cat

Tom

But it also depends on the personallity of the other fish.
Tom

Sabi

I'd say the gourami with cories or smallish loachs.

Callum The Cat