YeW Posted December 17, 2003 Share Posted December 17, 2003 Hi All -I am setting up a 3x18 planted tank with a pair of honey gourami and perhaps a pair of keyholes... I'd like some peaceful but interesting species to go with them...So I am open to ideas . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anchar Posted December 17, 2003 Share Posted December 17, 2003 Hi YeW, Try some Sparkling Gouramis and/or some Liquorice Gouramis - both a bit different and interesting. merjo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dviv Posted December 18, 2003 Share Posted December 18, 2003 Try Congo tetrasCan grow quite big (relative to other tetras), look fantastic, and are very peaceful.Highly recommended :^: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtchye Posted December 18, 2003 Share Posted December 18, 2003 I've seen some croaking gouramies around in the past dave, they are unusual, small and peaceful...And what about some sort of ancistrus species - like the orange spotteds maybe? Loaches - pakistani, skunk, modesta, etc lots of unusual ones around.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Link2Hell Posted December 18, 2003 Share Posted December 18, 2003 Killies ? :D L2H Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brett4Perth Posted December 18, 2003 Share Posted December 18, 2003 Pencilfish?Brett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Citypainter Posted December 19, 2003 Share Posted December 19, 2003 Whiptail catfish and paradise fish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akroyd Posted December 19, 2003 Share Posted December 19, 2003 Hi Dave, I've kept and liked the following; Pseudogastromyzon cheni, Badis badis badis, Chlamydogobius eremius, Iriatherina werneri, Pseudomugil gertrudae, Pseudomugil mellis, Gasteropelecus stellatus, Sphaerichthys osphomenoides, Corydoras hastatus, Copella arnoldi, Nematolebias whiteii, Poecilia reticulata,BTW ppl should know that fish sold as "red honey gouramies" are hybrids of Colisa lalia and Colisa chuna. The real honey is smaller, prettier and a diffrent colour.If you want help finding anything on the list, let me know and I'll get it for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brett4Perth Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 "red honey gouramies" are hybrids of Colisa lalia and Colisa chunaYou have confirmed my suspicion, thanks for that akroyd.Cheers Brett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nornicle Posted December 25, 2003 Share Posted December 25, 2003 CHOCOLATE GOURAMIES!!!I saw some a month ago, WOW!!! too bad they are considered 'extremely extremely' fragile (in the 'look at them funny and they die' territory') Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted December 25, 2003 Share Posted December 25, 2003 :D CHOCOLATE GOURAMIES !!!Now there is a challange for all the mouth brooding Cichlid fans ! Might even be a bit of a challange for the planted tank enthusiats as well. Very prone to Ich and fungal infections unless kept in VERY soft acid water (pH 6 or below, less that 10ppm hardness). not easy to feed initially unless you have heaps of mozzie lavae but learn to take flake, then you are home and hosed.Even though the mouth brooding male holds for about 10 or 12 days, the fry are very tiny, not quite big enough for BBS first up (my big mistake the first couple of spawns).Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
griffin Posted December 26, 2003 Share Posted December 26, 2003 I could never understand why people went to such trouble over chocolate gouramies.....being just a brown fish........then I saw them in the flesh! Pictures do them no justice. I'd love to take up the challenge some day.....Cheers,Jess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
23Skidoo Posted December 27, 2003 Share Posted December 27, 2003 Where can i find chocolates? I've heard heaps i just wanna see a couple in the scales! Yew, why not trey bumble bee gobies, you could easily have half a dozen in there, and they are awesome to watch, mine seem to have formed into 2 pairs and a couple of stragglers. And they continually sneak about the tank trying to surprise the other pair, but no damage done. Mine are in with Banded gourami and sparkling gourami. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
searlesy Posted December 28, 2003 Share Posted December 28, 2003 How about some threadfin rainbows? You could put quite a reasonable school of them in, and they are a nice attractive peacefull schooling fish and a bit different to the tetras everyone goes for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E4G13M4N Posted December 28, 2003 Share Posted December 28, 2003 Threadfins are great, but to get the full beauty of the fish a 3 or 4' tank is better.. That way the males spread out and stake their own little area and when the females school past the display is awesome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wazza Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 Cardinals Corydoras Clown Loach Just a suggestion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevkoi Posted January 6, 2004 Share Posted January 6, 2004 Talking about chocolate gouramis.... Anyone know of any Sphaerichthys vallanti around in Australia? Most recently discoverd of the Sphaerichthys species.. and very very pretty too with the reds, greens, browns and whites all in the one fish (Pictures just don't to them any justice!). Saw some when I was away in Singapore. Was going to import some of these beauties when I saw them in Singapore.... Unfortunately someone else beat me to it and bought all the fishes b4 me! DAMN! .... still looking, still looking... kev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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