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The Blue Gourami, sometimes also called the 3 Spot Gourami is a popular freshwater tropical fish for aquarium keeping. these fish are usually a light blue color and have three dark spots, one on the base of the tail, one in the middle of the body and the eye which looks like the third spot. The Gourami type of fish itself comes in several colors, the blue which you often see in pet stores, gold and opaline as well as a few other rear of varieties. These fish can grow very large and are best suited for larger aquariums.

The Blue Gourami is a fairly easy fish to keep and will exist fine on floating flake food that you probably feed to the majority of the other fish in your tank. However, like most creatures, these fish do need a little bit of variety and itÂ’s good to throw in some freeze dried blood worms or frozen brine shrimp every once in a while just to be sure they are getting all the vital nutrients that they need.

If you buy a Gourami fish that is very small you might be able to start them off in a smaller aquarium but eventually you going to have to get a 50 gallon or larger as the fish grows. This species can grow quite large and you want to be sure that you house them suitably. you also need to be sure that you have a good heater on the tank as these, like many other freshwater tropical fish, require the water temperature to be between 70 and 82Â°F. Other tank conditions include a PH of 6.0 to 8.8 and a hardness of 5-35 dGH.

Since these fish are used to thickly vegetated waters as found in their native tropical waters of the Far East, the Gourami will feel right at home if you have a lot of plants in your aquarium. They get along with other fish of their kind but you need to make sure that you have many GouramiÂ’s and preferably different typeÂ’s in the tank to keep them from ganging up on the other fish. It is best to have at least 4 Gouramis in the tank and even better if you can get a mix of the blue, gold and opaline varieties. Generally, you want to stick to having only one male and the tank as they can be territorial.

The Blue Gourami enjoys the company of the other varieties of Gourami. You could keep Gold, Blue and Opaline Gourami together peacefully in the same aquarium. Oddly enough, if your tank has only one variety of Gourami with other species of fish, the Gourami will gang up on the other fish. When you keep a mix of Gourami in the tank among other fish species, the Gourami tend to focus on their own type and leave the other fish alone. It is recommended that you have a minimum of four GouramiÂ’s in your tank, with a mix from the different varieties.

The Gourami can get along in the tank with other fish of the same size and can live peacefully with Barbs, Clown Loaches, Bala Sharks, Danios, Rainbow Sharks, Red Tail Sharks and Rainbows.

If you take excellent care of your Gouramis and provide them with the proper tank conditions, they can live to be four years old and grow to be 4 inches in length.

Lee Dobbins writes for Fish Tank Guide where you can learn more about setting up and maintaining a fish tank as well as find out about tropical fish for your aquarium.

Suggestions for a 125 Gal. Freshwater tank.?

No Goldfish or African Chichlids.
Just want to get idead of what kind of fish i could put in there to make a great community tank.

I own 5 Different tanks in one year. 1) 10 Gallons - Male betta and a Pleco. 2) 10 Gallons - Babies; Mollies, Platties, Swordtails, Guppies and Snails. 3) 20 Gallons - Guppies, Tetras, Gold Nugget Pleco and Snails. 4) 30 Gallons - Rainbows, Mollies, Platties, Swordtails, Dwarf Gourami, Angelfish, Clown Loach, Rainbow Shark and a Pleco. 5) 40 Gallons - Goldfish: 6 Orandas, Black Moor and Regular (feeder) Goldfish and a foot long Rhino Pleco. And I'm Saving for a 125 Gal. Tank Freshwater and a 55 Gal. Saltwater.
My tanks are fine, not too overcrowded, i got a bout an inch of fish per gallon.

I am planning to sell all my tanks but the 40 Gallons to raise money for it. I might want to keep most of my fish in the 125 Gal. but I might giveaway or sell some. Not the betta, will wait until it dies. I wil be keeping all my plecos, they're the best I think.

One of the most beautiful 180 gallon tanks I ever owned was built around an extensive collection of Rainbow fishes. Yep, I even had white clouds in it. Then there was a school of Queen Annes, some Celebres and Hybrides, Rusts, several of the various "lake or river whatever" varieties from New Zealand and Australia and some I have forgotten because I haven't kept fish for years now. The tank was planted with several Swordplants, Aponogetums (that bloomed!), Valesneria, Cryptocoryns, some bunch type plants actually rooted as individuals in clumps and various Java mosses. I also had 20 clown loaches ( I bought when about 1/2" long), a couple of Pakistani loaches, a couple of Red Tail Botia and a couple of other timid oddballs for amusement. There were even 4 African cichlids of the dwarf sort. One was the bright yellow one that was called leluepi at the time(African cichlid classifications change every few years), and the other was the pinkish one (both from Lake Tanganyika, I think). All of them spawned repeatedly and I removed the fry with a slurp gun. I almost forgot--also 100 neons (about 75 grew to adult size) that traveled in 2-3 (and sometimes one big) shoals. All did well for several years but the tank separated at a corner and I never restarted that one. This tank was a deeper variety of a 125 gallon but all that survives is abot an hour of video. It did not have the one piece plastic edge top that gives big tanks today more stabilty. I had undergravel filtration all across the bottom, about 4 inches of gravel, several large pieces of cured driftwood and some slate formations. There were two large power filters hung on the back and a Diatom. I think the problem was the large Diatom filter that I hung on the back and ran continuously. A combination of its vibrating at some adverse resonance and its weight eventually pulled the silicone loose, I think. It was a showplace tank when it was operating. A 125 with those specimens would be lovely. Oh, in addition to 2 2 lamp flourescent hoods with Grolux lamps I had 2 250 watt Grolux floodlights over this tank. I put those up and grew a tropical water lilly that blossomed and filled the house with a great fragrance. Our house stayed at 70 degrees year in and out and I never had a heater in this tank. In fact, in temperature controlled areas I never put heaters in large tanks (over 55 gal) and never have had any problems. There is so much mass that such tanks heat up during a 16 hour light cycle enough so that it doesn't cool off and adversely affect the fish when the lights are off for 8 hours or even longer. I hope you can save for that tank and have good luck with it. Fish do much better in large tanks because the fluctuations in their environment (mainly temperature) are less.

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