Hey guys, I've got some sad news. A few days ago I had upgraded my dwarf Gourami, Clyde, and the ember tetras to a planted 20 gallon. Clyde was loving all of the extra space, but sadly this morning I found that he had jumped out of his tank and passed away. I was going to make an update care video with him but in light of that I won't be, but I do have some extra insights to share with you through keeping him. Dwarf Gouramis are so much fun. They are adorable and have such awesome personalities. I love how they interact with their feelers. I would also recommend giving them more than the minimum tank size (as I would with all fish) and found that a 20 gallon was really good. Also make sure you block off every tiny hole you can, as it looks like Clyde jumped out in the gap left by a hang on the back filter. If you have a glass panel lid, maybe consider adding some mesh to the gaps. I'm sorry for the sad update but I hope this video and the footage of Clyde continues to educate and inspire you all. Enjoy your dwarf Gouramis! Lots of love 💕

I was lucky enough to have my powder blues paired already in the store doing really well and loving each other!

I’m so lucky my Dawf isn’t timid at all. Every time I walk into my room it’s always comes swimming to me.

This is the best care guide for DGs that ive seen on youtube so far, keep up the great work! Also got my first female dwarf guorami today :)

Your comments about the fish expression is awesome and funny 😆

Don't understand why this sweet video don't have more views. Keep up the good work

Cool video and fish! I just got a neon blue who looks and acts much like yours. Auburn spent the first two days racing back and forth on the back of the tank but since then has calmed down. He isn't as brave as my betta (who's in another 10 gallon) but he is as inquisitive as her and he's learning to come up when I open the lid since that may mean FOOD! He's definitely fun to watch in my heavily planted tank. Lives with 4 false julii corys and a few ghost shrimp.

Nice, this is the kind of video I've been looking for. Thanks.

Omggg I asked you to make this vid I’m way to happy rn ☺️

Dwarf gourami is one of my fav alongside threadfin rainbowfish 😆 they are so cool and beautiful! ~

Your ambers are having some amazing colours

Love the Dwarf Gouramis too. I believe they are are on the hardy side in general but like most living creatures are very unpredictable!

Getting powder blue dwarf gouramis for a planted 37g tomorrow. Been cycling a brand new tank for 3 weeks in anticipation for them!

Thank you! Very informative and straight forward. I think you just sold me a dwarf neon blue gourami 😄🐟

Thank you, I am thinking about getting one for my 15 gallon, but I didn’t know if they would be good, now I know my tank is just fine for them

Beautiful fish. I have flame and powder blue gouramis in my tank 🩵

I have a powder blue dwarf. He's my heart. He follows me, watches me and poses for the camera. He's quite adorable 😍😍😍😍

I saw powder blue dwarf Gourami for the first time the other day and fell in love with them. I have been keeping Bettas so the attitude I am used to. I would also like to try the Honey Gourami but have not see them as yet.

Nice Video! Thank you, setting up my first tank

Nice aquascaping. 🙂

Thanks alot just found this but it helped alot I definitely will get one for my empty planted tank👍

I've got a thicklipped gourami (peach gourami) Male. Mine tries to bite my finger if I put it on the glass haha he's a character and I love him. If any of the fish start fighting he'll swim up to them fast and break up the fight then swim and hide 😂 he lives with tetras and endlers guppies. Getting some floating plants for him soon!

Cool video! I’m setting up/cycling a 9 gallon fluval flex, thinking of getting one and then like 3-4 ember tetras or other small schooling fish. Will have to add heaps of plants!

Just got into these lil gems! MIN10gal!!!!!! I got mine in a 40gal with a bunch of fish that didn’t fit other builds n a German ram, but yo I disagree their not timid at all I play with my boy my waking him up flicking his tail he loves it it’s a game for him he knows he’s getting some food when he gets woke up , I have mine next to my bed he won’t go to sleep unless I’m laying next to him he’s jelly of chicks coming round ,, but he’s so personable he won’t leave me alone when I’m around it’s funny.. their angry with other fish but they are tank bosses …. Don’t jump into these without doing some serious research but…. Thanks for vid:)

Would you suggest live plants? What do you use for the base, could it be more rocky or should it be sandy? This video was so so so helpful!

awesome vid, thank you!

Very informative and to the point thank’s

Thanks for an informative video.. i have 2 honey gouramis (yellow and orange) in a 20 gallon with some other peaceful community fish..need ur suggestion whether to add one powdered blue gourami in the same tank ..thanks in advance for your expert advise..

Do you think they would be good in a 10 gallon with 6 tuxedo guppies?

I've noticed they have similar care guides to bettas! Do you think if you had a big enough tank you could keep two docile ones together?

Gouramis’ feelers are covered with taste buds, rather like the barbels and skin of catfish. So they use their feelers to investigate their environment.

I have 4 in a 29 gallon and they're so friendly!

My garami is so cute every time I walk into the room he swims strait to the glass and greets me

Owner of the same breed: striped dwarft gourami from last week and i love him. He is the center piece in my community tank. I tried to feed him brine shrimp, he is unable to see them before tetras finish them 😂 but anyways I feed hikari micro pallets as well, he eat them well 😊

Great content

Im just starting my first tank. Its a 10 gallon, and those were the 3 fish i wanted to get for mine! 😛

would you recommend me getting 1 male DG or 2 female DG with a couple community fish for. 20 gallon

I am setting up a tropical tank and I love this fish. I have a 52L tank. Do you think I could have 2 female dwaf gourami? And cartenial tetra or neon + corydora or brittlemose?

I just got 4 different coloured Dwarf Gourami in my 230L tank :) 50 Rummy nose Tetras 2 Bristlenose Plecos And a Mystery snail called Stefano. 🤗 Thanks for the info on Dwarf Gourami!

I have a male Dwarf Gourami in my 65g community. I recently treated for ich on Clown Loaches and Black Neon Tetras, using g high heat and garlic. Towards the end of treatment, the Gourami had a sudden loss of appetite at feeding time. He never exhibited any sign of ich. He hunts and forages normally, and is always pooping big long strings longer than he is. This morning, he showed a somewhat increased interest in frozen Bloodworms, but went wild over live Daphnia. He'll even turn his nose up at live Blackworms. Just did 25% water change. Day IV out of treatment Temp down from 88°F during treatment to 82.6 post treatment. Lowered temp 2° a day. Any idea what's going on with my Gourami? My female in another tank is as fit as a fiddle.

Should I put one in a 75 g tank with 2 angels fish, a red tailed shark and glow tetras?

Really nice video, I think you have underestimated the size a little bit though, most of my male dwarfs are around 4 inches, I'd be interested to know what size this fish is today? Your tank looks very clean and healthy so Im sure if this fish is a bit bigger then you expected it is in very safe hands!

I know this video was made 3 years ago, but I'm curious if anyone could answer my question as to much to feel a dwarf gourami when it comes to pellets or flakes? I tried looking online and end up with a lot of different answers

Where did you get your tank? I made the mistake of buying a gourami with my 5 gallon tank and the one you got is so cool.

In terms of space, would a pair fit in a 16 gallon aquarium?

I had 2 powdered gouramis and one of them passed away they got along and now the other fish won't eat should I get another fish. Another thing is that my gourami would not eat or get air before he died what should I do if this happens again?

By the way I LOVE that thump noise that make …. My boy makes it constantly when he’s hungry once I feed him he stops n goes nuts for 5 mins then sleeps… they’re really good to get to know personality wise people may have timid ones but yo mine legit chases me around the tank then again he lives 20 cm from my bed. But,,, it’s very easy to piss these fish off so if u having timid Issues maybe they need some time acclimating to humans if that’s what u want, rams are the same they swim hoops through your hands.. but DG’s seem to always end as the owners fave fish due to how weird they are… wonder how close their related to archer fish? Same shape same behaviour I have owned archers and their identical behaviour wise but a Lil more wild..

Do you think that a 30 gallon is big enough for 2 honey gouramis, 9 harlequin rasboras and 3 bristlenose plecos?

Good evening ... Thank you for the lovely information ... I just got 6 of them in a 55 gallon tank along with neon tetras, guppies, platies and swords ❤️🤍 ... They are stunning little creatures that i would like them to get bigger and prettier after they settle down

I wonder if I can put a Dwarf and a Honey Gourami together in a 29 gallon community tank? And maybe a tiny sparkling gourami too. They all have such funny expressions and personalities.

I have two flame gourami males in 55g they are fine. But I’m looking for something else I can put with them

i have 5 cherry shrimps, 2 butterfly loaches, some cory catfish and guppies in a 16 gallon tank. would i be safe to get one gourami?? i find the gourami so beautiful but i heard that they may eat my shrimps and cherry shrimps are expensive. however i have a planted tank so the shrimps could hide

Thanks

I have the same fishie, can I put it in with my neon glow fish?

Right now I have a 2.5 gal tank with 2 neon tetras. When I got them I didn’t know that they were schooling fish. So I’m going to get a 10 gal and get more tetras maybe 5 more and then I wanted another species for a community tank. After a lot of research, I found dwarf Gouramis, and I love them and want them! So would 7 neons tetras and a male and female DG be ok in a 10 gal? Btw this was the best dwarf gourami video I found, and I watched a lot! Thanks in advance

My Dwarf Gourami’s name is blue and he’s the most chill fish ever, he likes to come up to the front of the tank when I’m standing there.😂

will it survive in a tank of juvi tiger barbs ?

Hi Michelle with the neon gourami like yours are you not aloud to feed them the typical goldfish flakes what I feed my platys what I will put mine with soon 👍

Can you get multiple gouramis, I have a 60 gallon tank with 12 buenos aires tetras and I'm planning to get a few corydoras.

how come my Dwarf Gourami fight other fish and eat all the food? Is there a way to feed them something that they can eat slowly and leave food for my other fish? Also, why are they attacking my angel fish?

Sorry to hear about Clyde. Do you know if they will eat platy fry? Will they get along with platy adults?

My powder blue female is so timid. Its been less than a week so I know there is an acclimation period but he rarely comes out of her cave

My dwarf gourami sometimes gets chased by my bigger gouramis and idk what to do

Gouramis are my next fish for my 29 gal

Would 3 Dwarf Gouramis (2 female 1 male) be good for a 35gallon tank?

Heya michelle,just bought some dwarfs, can I ask you what was that about how they can breath? Thanks 🙂

i have 3 dwarf gouramis in a 20 gallon and they get on great

so my betta sadly died, and i’m thinking of getting 2 dwarf gouramis for my 10 gallon. ik in the video you don’t recommend that but can i ask why?

Nice tank! I have a question for you though, my dwarf gourami eats all the food in my community tank. I am scared because when I try to make sure my other fish are eating he eats all of it before the other fish get any. As soon as I approach the tank he swims to the top and waits for me to drop any food. He even will chase the bristlenose pleco away from algae wafers and eat that. He’s gotten a huge belly from this and looks like he’s ready to explode. Should I put him in his own tank or something?

Is this the same for honey dwarf gourami? And is it safe to hand feed them?

I'm sorry for you fish, he was so beautiful 😔I really want to get one but I have buenos aires tetras will it be okay to put one with them?

Can you just keep them alone or do they have to have a tank mate

What substrate do you have?

Happy to see our native fish as pets in foreign countries

I hand feed my dwarf all the time!

cool

My betta Louie just had his porcelain funeral. Had him for 2.5 years... Looking to get a blue powdered gourami now...and I guess a bigger tank than 5 gal

Can neon blue dwarf gourami and bettas cohabitat with each other?

Can you put then with shrimp?

What size tank do u have?

i have a 15 gallon for 2 is that okay...?

Will they eat a tropical flake food?

Im getting a Dwarf Gourami pair in 2 weeks. So by then, I need to get rid of my african cichlids from my 66 gallon cause they'll go nippy nip with the gouramis. I also have 2 Kois in there which Ill be rehoming in a few months. I will have 4 Tiger Barbs, 2 Common Plecos, 1 Brown Roofed Turtle and 1 Black Ghost Knifefish in there with the Gouramis. Its a growout tank for the plecos and the knife. Once the Kois are gone too in the coming months then ill add the invertibrate army in there. Ramshorns, apples, bladders, malaysian trumpet snails and ghost shrimp. They'll be tankmates, cleanup crew and potential protein source for the Knifefish.

I just bought one.

Wow, nice video! I got 9 neon tetras, 3 cory ( albino ), 3 glowlight tetras and a small mystery snail. I got a brand new planted tank ( I'm new to this hobby ) and waited for about 2 weeks for my water to cycle ( I couldn't wait anymore ). Even though my tank is only 60 l ( 60×30×30 ) I think there is still room for more fish and I wanted to ask you: Could I add more fish? If yes, what would you suggest: a male betta or gourami fish ( 1 or 2 ). I like both species the same. Thanks in advance!

thank you, I will go for them

I have 7 of these all male, all get on great.

Wonderful video, well done. Can you keep a Gourami with Shrimp?

I'm gonna get a dwarf gourami a female and a male in a few days!

Do you still have the fish tank? If you do you should do a new video about it

I had to remove my neon blue dwarf gourami because it kept chasing my honey gouramis

Whats better male or female

Jusr got a male and female and they're doing very well with a school of 6 lamb chop fish.

Where did you get your tank?

Hi Michelle I'm Andre from Connecticut I have 2 dwarf gouramis m and f with blk skirt tetras 4 I have a 20 gallon

You should have more than 1 Pygmy Cory. They like groups, hey it’s an excuse to get 3-4 more ☺️ plus you will shed their personality come out more.

Pretty... 🙋

I just bought 2 they told me it was a male and female I have them in there with platties

I like your smartwatch, Samsung?

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