This is our 180l (~47gallons ) planted tank, low-maintainance, pure tap water, no CO₂. It’s our first tank and about 8 weeks old now, plus additional 3 weeks dry start (see last pic). After some diatoms + a bit of hair algae, things have settled nicely so far and plants and the cleaning crew are outperforming the algae. 10 Amanos + 20 Neocaridina, lots of them berried, and 2 Nerite Snails are the current facility management staff.
A week ago, our younger boy picked out 12 male Endlers — they’re already cruising around like they own the place.
We have stable water parameters: pH ~7.5, GH ~8, KH ~7.5, NO₃ ~1–2, NO₂ 0 for some weeks now, and continue measuring at least NO₂.
Our older boy wants to add a pair of Honey Gouramis (Trichogaster chuna) to the Endlers soon.
Anyone running that combo in a community tank? Are our hardscape and plants suited for them (floaters are growing quickly)? Any tips to keep it peaceful?
Posted by mihamania
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Honey gouramis will not bother any other fish species. I had them with guppies if that convinces you and they never attacked even the young ones that just grew out of being fry. You should also get a trio not a pair just to be safe because the male may chase the female and tire her too much when trying to breed so 2 females should be safer just in case, though a pair is fine most of the time. I would get 3 since your tank is so huge and honestly if you want to you can even keep like 6 in that tank just make sure you have a good gender ratio.
Edit: yes your plants are good, they will love the limnophila but you could add floaters to make them feel more comfortable
I’ve had success getting them into breeding condition in lower water flow dimly lit tanks. They mostly come from swamps, ditches and flooded areas in nature. Sort of like betta fish. Which can be recreated with more floating plants and as your tank continues to mature the plants you already have should aid in mimicking that. They don’t want a high current tank.
Their best colors in my experience aren’t in very bright tanks, or at least in a tank that has layers of shade. You could handle 4-5 in there if you wanted. But aggression will be present especially if you have too many boys.
Here’s one of my males in breeding dress.
https://preview.redd.it/741flc4xavrg1.jpeg?width=2000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1554105f5a40f71d13a8ae501e6775503d324f56
Is that hornwort on the left? Is so, how did you weigh it down?
Lovely tank! Honeys are very peaceful except sometimes with each other, but I can’t imagine you’ll have problems in that size tank