ML> i've never had gouramies before but i have had numerous ciclids...
ML> oscars being the largest but i did have about 12 various ciclids at one
ML> time... generally gouramies are hardy and easy to take care of... best
ML> if they are with other fish of roughly the same size (eg: don't put them
ML> with larger fish)... you also don't want too many of them or they will
ML> fight... one article says one gourami or male and female pair of
ML> gouramies per 15 gallons... plus they can be shy so having some hiding
ML> places for them will help to keep the stress down...
Sorry just catching this message today...
I usually don't buy them in pairs and have one or two in there... wonder if they
stress out due to lack fo hiding space. They seem to be very healthy
then they show a LOT of color and just die. That's usually how they die in
my tank they go out with a bloom of beauty :-(
I had the most amazing 80 gallon tank... had pictures of it up on the old
LiveWire BBS web back in the early 1990's. It was GLORIOUS and I went away
to college... I had angelfish in there that were breeding that were as big as
4-5 inches.
My mother, in her OCD cleaning mode decided to take all the gravel out and rinse
it and clean the hell out of the tank. Everything was dead within 48 hours...
it crushed me to come home and find it dead. Mom didn't realise the "dirt" she
saw was part of the filter.
Allen
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