dwarf gouramis and platys and guppies (read details plz).........?

Question

hi i have a 115litre tank which i think is a 25 gallon and i was thinking of getting:
1 male dwarf gourami and 3 females (can male dwarf gouramis be kept together????)
1 male platy and 3 females ( i will keep some fry)
some guppy fry because my guppy gave birth to 12 fry
3 corydoras
and 1 ancistrus

can these fish live together and how do you tell the sex of platys thanks and will the tank be over crowded

Answer 1

You did a great job of planning and all of those fish are going to be fine, except the Ancistrus. Ancistrus are Plecostomus and Plecostomus get very large. Most Plecos reach more than a foot in length and will quickly outgrow your 25 gallon tank. Instead, buy 3 Otocinclus Catfish (they stay 2 inches each and eat algae much more consistently than Plecos). By the way, Dwarf Gouramis are such great fish! Good luck!

People are saying Dwarf Gouramis are crowding the tank, that is untrue. Dwarf Gouramis get about 2 inches long. You could get 2 males and 4 females if you wanted to (assuming you don't get the Ancistrus). That would be less likely to see any fighting. Email me if you have any questions.

Nosoop4u

Answer 2

In the size of tank you have I would just stick to one male Dwarf Gourami. I had one male and one female in a 75 gallon (sorry don't know the metric equivalent, lets just say BIG) tank along with a hundred or so guppies, mollies and the like. The male ended up dying for some reason I haven't figured out.

Anyway the Dwarf Gourami is a VERY territorial fish. As for having 4 in your size tank it would be way too crowded with the fish you already have. Dwarf Gourami's and most other Gourami's are fine just living with themselves as the only one.

Oh and with one you may find a decrease in the number of Guppy fry you have.

So get only one male Dwarf Gourami or you can get a couple of females. Also like Betta's (same family) male Dwarf Gourami's are very violent (in my observations) towards the female of the species. The only reason you would want males and females together is to breed which is not the easiest thing. The only reason I got mine together was because the store owner assured me they were both males. If you had a tank twice the size of yours two males would have enough room to each have a territory and there wouldn't be too much fighting.

As for Platies... Like a male guppy a male platy will have a pointy fin along his belly and a female will have a rounded fin.

Good Luck and Happy fish keeping.

Answer 3

Actually, that sounds about good to me! But the ancistrus may need more room than that.

With plattys, you've got it on the money. it's best to keep more than one female for every male. You can sex them by looking at the fins on the belly. The males have kinda a sword lookin fin that they generally keep folded up, unless he's trying to fertilize her, if you know what I mean. It's between the two fins, which are the same as the females. They will breed about every 20 days to a month, so expect that. With more females for him, you will have fry more often than that.

As far as the gouramis, you can keep more than one male together, but be on the lookout for fights. If you put more than one male in, I don't suggest having females. Gouramis are the Bettas cousin, and they seem to think about the same sometimes too. I'm not sure if the difference with him being a dwarf would make that much of a difference in his attitude. I really wouldn't have any more than 2 females together, but again, watch for fights. And make sure you've got PLENTY of hiding spots, so they can retreat when they need to! My female gouramis had quite a few scuffles at first, to determine who's the alpha female. Right now, I've got an abnormally tiny opaline male, 1 opaline female and a gold female. Let's just say, he's a happy boy, now that the big mean male is gone! lol

The Cory Cats are very social critters, and prefer to be together. I plan to have a bunch of different breeds of corys in my tank, but only have an emerald right now.

You may want to consider a pleco also. It would definately be benificial to your tank!

As far as overcrowding, it would be fine, so long as you get rid of the fry as they come, including some of your guppy fry that yolu've got now. If you're keeping them, you may want to consider another tank to raise the fry in. Otherwise, they will be lunch for everyone else. You don't want to have too many more than what you've got on this list, babies or not.

I hope this helps you out, and good luck with the tank!
;o)

Answer 4

i have a female and male dwarf gourami they are better in pairs than on there own,gouramis are very difficult fish to keep,they are slow moving and are prone to mouth rot and fin rot,they also don't do well with aggressive fish,
you need to get a pair of them,the rest of the fish should be OK together but don't get any mollies they fin and tail nip,and the gouramis will get stressed,

Answer 5

The population sound ok, just keep good tank maintenance. in my tank that has my live bearers they have babies alot but they all get eaten, (i dont mind this) you need lots of places for them to hide or get a breeding net if u want them to survive. To sex platys see link below
http://www.fishforever.co.uk/livebearers.html

Answer 6

your tank is actually a 30 gallon
and is a bit to small for an ancistrus, but fine for all the other fish, here is a site with all the plecos available and their habitats
http://www.peteducation.com/category_summary.cfm?cls=16&cat=1923
Maybe you want to consider 3-4 cory cats (bottomfeeder), here is a link
http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/genus.php?genus_id=1#51


Here is an example of the anatomy of a guppy, all livebearers have the same distinctive fins
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images/view?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3F_adv_prop%3Dimage%26fr%3Dks-ques%26va%3Dfemale%2Bguppies%26sz%3Dall&w=631&h=452&imgurl=zoology.okstate.edu%2Fzoo_lrc%2Fbiol1114%2Fpre-labs%2Fguppies%2Fimages%2Fmale%2Bfemale2.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fzoology.okstate.edu%2Fzoo_lrc%2Fbiol1114%2Fpre-labs%2Fguppies&size=31.1kB&name=male%2Bfemale2.jpg&p=female+guppies&type=jpeg&no=2&tt=226&oid=f0d6bdc6bd9cd46a&ei=ISO-8859-1


Hope that helps
Good luck


EB

Answer 7

They will probably live quite well together except the gouramis. More than one gourami will probably fight. unless there is enough space for all of their territories.