I had one powder blue gourami in a fifty gallon tank with two tiger oscars. Junevinlesm I remove tiger oscars. I buy mollies i buy a golden gourami. And redo tank and enter fish. Gold gourami and powder blue gourami stress me out. Blue gourami chase gold gourami. Difference in gender? Are they fighting? Are they both males? Are they breeding? Are they racist? Me confused. Me need help. Please help.
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Gouramis should absolutely not be kept with other gouramis or labyrinth fish. Especially if they are both male. They are highly-territorial and aggressive towards each other, not social at all by typical fish standards.
Decide which gourami you want to keep then rehome the other. If it were up to me, I’d keep the gold and rehome the dwarf. Because if your gold gourami hasn’t killed your dwarf gourami sooner or later, Iridovirus will in about six months or so.
I say more Rocky Mountains ( cover) underwater for them to not see each other so much. Make a cave if you can, out of rocks, or a forest full of bamboo split into sticks, with Java moss tied on all over. Stagger 10 or 15 around, and let them grow into a forest. The mass will grow out thick and allow the fish to hide from each other.
My gouramis fought so I separated into different tanks , I tried to get a female for each one, so they make babies,but they beat the girls up real bad, so now females healing in their own tank. Gourami are aggressive fish. I’m not getting anymore. Beautiful but aggressive.
weird i have both a gold and the blue tiger gouramis in my tank and they all get along