I have a 60g tank (one of the Aqueon breeders) in my office that I set up about 8 months ago and added fish to about a month after that. It's only my second tank (I ran a smaller tank for about half a year to make sure I didn't hate taking care of an aquarium), so my experience is limited.
I have 6 Trichogaster chuna (Honey Gourami) in the tank. I got them as juveniles so they couldn't be definitively sexed. Two of them are definitely male, and a couple are definitely female. The other two I assume are female but I don't really know for sure.
Ever since the two male gourami have colored up, the group has split. There's a Nymphaea stellata on the left edge of the tank, and the two male gourami pretty much exclusively hang out under its pads, one in the front corner and one in the back.
The rest of the gourami occupy the rest of the tank. The only time I see the male gourami leave their fiefdoms is when they decide to chase away a female invader. Even when I feed they wait for the food to drift over to them, and they don't seem to have any interest in any of their non-gourami tank mates. The two males seem to have some kind of agreement, because they don't bother each other at all.
I have seen one of the males and one of the females swimming around each other in a tight spiral a couple times, which I assume is some kind of mating behavior.
Sorry for all the words, but is this normal? I feel bad that the two males spend all of their time occupying their little six inch cubes and never enjoy the rest of the tank. I'm not sure if it's an indication that I should really only have one male in there or if that's just how they are. I don't really care if the gourami breed or not, but I would like them to be happy.
I'm bad at taking photos through glass, but here's one of the full tank:
And the left side where the males hang out (conveniently hiding in the photo):
And where everyone else spends their time:
If it's relevant, these are all the fish in there:
6 Trichogaster chuna (Honey Gourami)
10+ Pseudomugil gertrudae (Blue Eye Rainbowfish) - Every couple months one or two new babies will show up when I'm feeding, guessing there's 15 or 16 in there now
20 Celestichthys marginatus (Celestial Pearl Danio)
10 Pangio semicincta (Kuhli Loach)
6 Corydoras habrosus (Salt & Pepper Cory)
And inverts:
20 Caridina multidentata (Amano shrimp)
6 Neritina auriculata (Batman Nerite)
6 Neritina juttingae (King Koopa Nerite)
There's also a lonely ramshorn as well as some number of bladder snails, pond snails, and malaysian trumpet snails, all of which showed up on their own (from the plants, I imagine).