Betta with Paradise
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I have tried and do keep bettas with croaking gourami. This may seem nothing like betta with paradise, but croaking gourami look and act very much like bettas. Surprisingly it is my female that is a promblem in this case. She refuses to let the croaking gourami come to the top of the tank except when she is off messing with the male. At this point all of my croaking gourami take a breath. None of them have to worry and I have never seen her bite one, but a betta with a paradise might be the same way. They may just have to fight.
Errr.. Paradise fish are quite, quite aggressive fish. They are nothing to mess with, and have not a problem with shortly becomming the tank bully. If you want your betta to stay in one piece, I would not place him in with a Paradise fish.
Betta's and gourmis in general are really not good combinations. I've tried. I put a betta in with my Sunset Thicklip gourmi. The gourmi was in the tank already and had been living there three months before I bought the betta home. Well, the betta did nothing but no stop harass the poor gourmi unitl I took the gourmi out of the tank. So I figured, okay, try again, and just yesterday bought a small Blue Gourmi to put in the tank. Same thing, the betta just continued to chase the poor baby around and around and harass it constantly. This harassment is not a good thing for fish because the fish that is constantly under attack from a bully will usually get stressed out, sick and, well, croak. The Sunset and Blue are now very happily getting along in my other tank, and mr. bully betta is busy flying around after some white clouds.
So personally, if I were you, I wouldn't try a betta gourmi combo. The closer the fish look or behave like each other, the more likely they are to fight, even between species, because the set of competitive signals for dominace are almost identical.
~~Colesea
Betta's and gourmis in general are really not good combinations. I've tried. I put a betta in with my Sunset Thicklip gourmi. The gourmi was in the tank already and had been living there three months before I bought the betta home. Well, the betta did nothing but no stop harass the poor gourmi unitl I took the gourmi out of the tank. So I figured, okay, try again, and just yesterday bought a small Blue Gourmi to put in the tank. Same thing, the betta just continued to chase the poor baby around and around and harass it constantly. This harassment is not a good thing for fish because the fish that is constantly under attack from a bully will usually get stressed out, sick and, well, croak. The Sunset and Blue are now very happily getting along in my other tank, and mr. bully betta is busy flying around after some white clouds.
So personally, if I were you, I wouldn't try a betta gourmi combo. The closer the fish look or behave like each other, the more likely they are to fight, even between species, because the set of competitive signals for dominace are almost identical.
~~Colesea
