Bhoff1989

Cool thank you. I have some good lfs around me fortunately so I only buy non living items from box stores. I’m actually on the fence between celestial pearl danios and chilis it’s pretty well planted but new plants at the moment so not full yet. Unfortunately I can’t post pictures on this forum it’s pretty annoying. I got three tamshorn snails that came with my plants so I have a good cleanup crew lol. The new dominant male in the honey group is a lot cooler he’s fully dressed but only slow chases the other males away and it’s really only like a hey you’re to close chase rather than the I want to kill you chase lol. If you can get the sexing ratio right I would recommend a group of six it’s quite the sight they interact even play.

Just an update for you two. So far it’s all good with all the gourami but one male. He is a total asshole lol. Attacks all the other males and females. Hes stressed theyre stressed he owns half the tank. So instead of trying to return him as i dont believe in that and you know how it is i love him already lol. Im setting up a 10 gallon for him. It’s going to be a really pretty tank very well planted and all the fixings for a honey gourami. Either of you have any suggestions on what could live with him in there? He doesnt bother any other fish except the occasional trying to nab an antenna off of my mystery snail. The ten gallon will have a hob and a small sponge filter.

I appreciate the advice. I think I’m gonna ride it out. I’ve been wanting to set up a 20 gallon on my kitchen counter anyways I have a perfect space for it just got to put an extra brace on the overhang. And I’ll leave some room in it for two honeys just in case but I will definitely keep you guys posted. I added a photo but it is too big or something.

Yea sorry reading back through what I said it was pretty illiterate. I’m not concerned with keeping the tank clean I’ve been in the hobby for a while now just new to honey gourami. My concern is future aggression as the other males grow into themselves clearly my mtf ratio is off lol. If I was going off of the 1” per gallon rule two inches overstocked but I have two Otto cats and I know their bio load is way lower as they don’t eat protein unless they came across a blood worm or something. I’ve included a picture but it’s a few weeks old I have a few more plants and more leaf litter and what not.

Hello, so i recently got seven honey gourami from my lfs they were all very small and extremely hard to sex. Well fast forward two months and I have atleast 4 maybe 5 males and two females. Unfortunately the guy at the store was probably more clueless than I was. He had assured me it was three males and four females. Well he was trying to go off of the black line they “all” have when stressed. Well pretty much as soon as I put them in my tank the lines went away and then I noticed two had orange tips on their dorsal fins and the other three had yellow (two are wild type) and they are extremely chill but I’m on the fence with one it’s built like a male but it doesn’t have the black line or yellow on the dorsal. Anyways is this going to turn into a disaster? One of my males is clearly the boss as he is full breeding color and pretty intent on changing anything that comes near his bubble nest away. I know adding seven fish at once is also kind of idiotic but it didn’t do anything to my parameters as they were all so small. But I can’t help but feel like this is beyond saving I’m on the fence on either trying to return them which I hate that idea as well they’re my babies lol or setting up a 20 gallon and just sticking a couple of males in it with no females. I need advice. They’re in a 29 gallon heavily planted tank cover all over the place almond leaves caves I made out of driftwood thick plants water lettuce I really tried to make an Asian flood type of feel.