Jeff Varszegi

Are all honey gouramis dwarf color morphs? I am a little unclear on this, but it's my understanding that true honey gouramis are a different species. My honey is nothing like my dwarf, and the two have never acted aggressively toward each other (unlike my old powder blue dwarf and my current dwarf).

I just love my opaline. With color flake he has grown to be covered by the loveliest aqua-blue shimmer.

I really like the flame color morph of the dwarf gourami.

I took my banded gourami down to the LFS after he chomped off a good part of a Celebes rainbow. I never much liked the banded anyway.

aquarist48

Hello Jeff. I've moved your question to a thread of it's own for you to get more responses. Thanks!
Ken

iloveengl

Here's my understanding:

The true honey gourami is Colisa chuna (used to be called Trichogaster chuna) and is different than the dwarf gourami (Colisa lalia).

Honey gouramis max out at 5cm for the females and slightly smaller for the males. The Colisa chuna have a way different attitude than Colisa lalia -- they don't fight other Colisa chuna males the way DG are known to battle.

Size is one way to help determine if it's a honey or a color morph of a DG. Temperment around other gouramis is another clear indication.

I had 2 male honey gouramis together in my 10g and they always stayed together. I recently moved one male when I introduced two females, just to be safe, but honey gouramis are supposed to be much less aggressive than DG when spawning. But...not worth a risk, imo.

I love my little gouramis!

Gouramiguy17

I hope everything works out but just remember, don't mix male dwarf gouramis

Jeff Varszegi

Thanks for the responses. It's pretty much as I expected. I was posting that question partly as a comment on the gourami poll, which IIRC didn't have a selection for the true honey gourami and implied that all honey gouramis were really dwarf gourami color morphs. But it's good to get confirmation!