Has anyone ever kept gouramis and a male betta together successfully?

[Zodiac007]

I'm just curious if anyone has ever kept gouramis such as blue and pearl ones, with 1 male betta together successfully? Like there may be some chasing, but just not constant.

I want to add 1 male betta to a 75 gallon. There are 3 blue gouramis and 2 pearl gouramis. But I'm thinking since its heavily planted all the way up, it may be fine right? Because there are so many jungle vals its like a jungle. There is almost no free swimming area for them to see each other or a long time.

Thank you.

[HeatherB]

I have always heard that it cannot be done, because both are labryinth breathers.

I wish I could though. I would LOVE to have a kissing gourami or a blue gourami!

[Northernguy]

Everyone I know that has tried watched their beta get beat up on.Its not a good idea because they both will fight for the top of the tank.
Maybe if you had a ton of floating plants but once the gourami sees the beta it will get ugly!

[Taurus]

If you try a male gourami and male betta, that's a fight to the death. I don't know if a female gourami with submit to a male betta, but I doubt it.

[Gemini]

Well I had a female blue and my Betta one day jumped out of his little breeding nest where he was living and yeah the next morning I woke up to a badly bashed Betta hiding and a gourami searching high and low for him.
So yeah I'll say no..

[DrNic]

I've done it with no problem at all. 2 blue spot, 1 yellow, 2 snakeskin, 1 betta, and 1 upsidedown cat. Everyone got along fine. At the time they were even in a rather overstocked tank. I didn't even realize people have had issues with this combo.

Here's a pic. As you can see though it was a VERY heavily planted tank.

[earth intruder]

I've kept a male betta with some little sparkling gouramis. It works because he's the least aggressive betta I've ever had, and he's a halfmoon so he can barely swim anyway. ;)

[Cameron]

It doesn't really matter what others have done, its up to the fish. They all have different personalities and theres no avoiding that, no matter what this one guy said worked for him. I'm not trying to be mean or anything, but i dont think it would work out 75% of the time, if not more.

[Gemini]

It doesn't really matter what others have done, its up to the fish. They all have different personalities and theres no avoiding that, no matter what this one guy said worked for him.\.
Couldn't agree more - every fish will react differently

[Northernguy]

Nic that is interesting!:22:
How long have they been together?
I have never heard of this working before!thumbs2:

[GouramiGal]

I've never seen a happy ending with this combo myself!

[Wild Turkey]

Couldn't agree more - every fish will react differently

Couldnt agree more. Guess and test, as terrible as that sounds:hmm3grin2orange: Just be prepared to separate before you get started

[kaimarkhirst]

hmm.

I have 1 male fighter, 2 female fighters, 4 dwarf gouramis all male, 1 golden male, and they al lget on perfectly!!!!.. Did have a problem with one of the goldens, he was removed, but other than that, they dont have any problems whatsoever............



So Far!!!!!!

[terrapin24h]

I think the important detail is the difference between a dwarf gourami and the larger (4-5") gouramis like the "3 spot" and "golden"; which are actually just different colors of the same critter. The dwarfs *tend* to be the more passive, easy going gourami, where as the "medium" species will tend to be on the more aggressive side. If you're going to try it, i would tend to think that the kissing, opaline, 3 spot, and yellow would have the highest probability of not working, especially if they have already been in the tank when you add the betta. Just my thoughts based on my experience with a nasty golden and a tough 3 spot.

--chris

[DrNic]

Nic that is interesting!:22:
How long have they been together?
I have never heard of this working before!thumbs2:

They were together for over 3 years with very little issues. Unfortunately due to a city water contamination problem during a water change (as the result of a broken water main, that at the time I was unaware of), the fish became quite ill. We fought against a number of infections for a while (maybe two months or so) but eventually I lost most of those fish.

[Pasutaman]

It doesn't really matter what others have done, its up to the fish. They all have different personalities and theres no avoiding that, no matter what this one guy said worked for him. I'm not trying to be mean or anything, but i dont think it would work out 75% of the time, if not more.


true say. Ive got a 30gal with.. two blue dwarfs, a gold and another gourami with crazy red designs of his sides, at least two are male and ive had a betta living with them for like 4 months now, they just swim passed each other.. no beef.. no beef.

[young_cichlid]

could depend on the tanks surface area.

[davidix]

I disagree with everybody here about not being able to do it.


You can do it but you have to find a balance. I nother words you cant just have 2 fish in the tank. My brother has a male Beta with male Opaline Guiarami and a Huge rainbow shark. The raibow shark is the balance. He shases the Beta around and the beta sometimes gets aggressive with the shark. But for the most part the entire tank is peacefull and everybody respects their territory. had them for over 8 months now.

[nzgirl]

We had my crowntail in our 35 G community tank first, then added a pearl gourami (female) and they seemed to get on OK, no fighting that I observed and my betta seemed the more dominant. Total about 3months. We only removed him because I wanted to put him in our breeding tank. Our tank has lots of plants and my betta did adopt a spot under a log for sleeping. :ssmile: