kevin from ky - 2008-04-20
Bettas are a beautiful and graceful species of fish. It's a shame that there lifestyle only allows us to have one male per tank. I've always thought it would be awesome to see a tank full of male bettas. I have a pretty impressive male that holds his own in a 55 gallon tank, along with a large Tiger loach, a baby Frontosa (very cool fish), 3 full grown powder blue Gouramis, a 4 inch African Butterfly fish!, and a Tiretrack Eel that's close to a foot long. He's bright orange all over except along the edges of his fins there a hint of blueish purple. His name's Tango and sometimes he and the butterfly fish like to measure each other up to decide who gets to hang out at the surface. The Butterfly has won every dispute I've witnessed but the betta does well and always manages to hang out at the top somewhere behind the cover of multiple floating plants. I'd really like to add about 3 female Bettas after my Frontosa outgrows my tank and I move him to something bigger, but im afraid my Eel may consider the females a snack due to there smaller size. He rarely eats smaller fish in the tank other than feeder fish but I hate to chance it.

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Anonymous - 2008-04-10
I had my black ghost knife for about 5 weeks along with some barbs, silver tip shark, and an african catfish. Well, yesterday my son bought 2 pearl kissing fish with his birthday money. They were fairly large, about 4 inchs, but really wide. The ghost is about 2-3 inches and slim. We put them in the tank and came back in about 10 mins to see how they were and to feed all the fish, and they had kissed my ghost knife to death. He was already dead when I came back to the tank and they were still kissing/attacking his poor body. I was very angry and I took both kissing fish back to the pet store the same day and got my money back. The sales person was even nice enough to give me another ghost knife as well.

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Janelle Mooney - 2008-02-06
I have a 55gal tank with 6 paradise, they are the most energetic fish I have ever seen. But they look nothing like the pictures, they almost look like little tigers, deep/bright orange and black stripes. They know exactly what food looks like!

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Anne in St-Albert, Ontario, Canada - 2008-01-20
Thank you very much for the information I was looking for on Powder blue Gourami's. I was able to find out the name of my fish, as I was misinformed and looking for the wrong fish name. You have a great site and very informative. Thank you again.

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bob - 2008-01-09
Just want to warn everyone that some dwarf gouramis are aggressive. I had two that liked to attack other fish, and they beat up a firemouth before one killed the other. The remaining one attacked my spotted climbing perch and pair of kribensis (and continued harassing the firemouth). When I kept them in a more peaceful tank they attacked guppies, otos, zebra danios, cory catfish, and ate two ghost shrimp. There were also a few disappearances, but I cant say it was my dwarfs. They also liked to rip up and eat my plants. These fish are very good at catching diseases so make sure your water quality is excellent. Other than that, they were great fish and resilient, surviving a two day move. They interacted with people (they liked to bite anything that was put into the tank) and seemed to watch TV. I will probably get another, but I will be more careful with tankmates.

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Scabhead - 2008-01-03
I'm a recent betta owner after having one "regifted" to me. I have to say; I love him. He has far more personality than I would have ever imagined and he seems to genuinely enjoy human companionship as he'll float right in front of you for extended periods when you put your face near his tank.
I have him in a ten-gallon tank (with heater and filter) by himself and he seems pretty happy. Well, if active means happy and I'm guessing that's a good indicator.
Oh, he's white with a pale iridescent blue at the insides of his fins and white at the tips.

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Dan - 2007-12-22
I love my White Betta! It has a little bit of red and even some teal on the edges of the fins. I can even pet it!

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Hana - 2007-11-29
I had two gouramis but one died because my family went to Colorado for four days and the weather in Dallas got cold so suddenly. The big one died and I tried everything to keep it alive but it soon died. The smaller one is still alive but was swimming wobbly but lived. I cried when the big gourami died but I had hoped that they would mate and get some babies. My mom loves the gouramis and I love my beautiful gourami.

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Laura - 2007-11-25
These fish are extremely hardy. I went to my parents for a week, forgetting to turn on the light to the aquarium before i left, and all my other tropicals froze. My red fire dwarf gourami is the sole survivor, which is kinda upsetting given I had the angel and cory cat for 2 yrs (got the cory same time as the gourami), as well as having had 2 silver dollars and a pleco in the tank. He is very shy and prefers to be near the bottom of the tank.

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Danielle - 2007-11-22
These are for sure some of the best fish ever! I had two (not sure of the sex) and they were great until the freak accidents started happening. My first got stuck in between the wall of the tank and the rocks. I dont see how it could have possibly gotten in there, and the rock didn't fall? Then my other gourami jumped out of the tank, but how, through the glass lights? So i think that my gouramis are cursed, but i dont want to put anyone off buying them! These are awesome fish, full of life, energetic and great for the kids.

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