bettas & female gourmais

[Jennifer]

I know male bettas and male gouramis don't necessarily get along but what about female gouramis and male bettas?

My male gouarmi recently died and I have a tank left with several female gouramis. I don't think I will buy another male gourami, so I was thinking of moving my male betta from my other tank so he would have more room (after I make sure my other tank is healthy, of couse).

Would this work or would they still be aggressive towards eachother? My betta is fairly calm. I haven't actually seen him flare. Right now he is in with tetras and cories.

Thanks.

 

[CAPSLOCK]

What kind of gouramis? You could always try it and see... check out his (and their) reaction while he's floating. If it looks really questionable, just don't add him.

 

[Jennifer]

I have two female red flame dwarf gouramis. They are very docile, so its probably dependent on the male's reaction. I'll give it a shot... I hope it works out because I know he would love to have more space to swim in. He's very curious.

 

[echoofformless]

With male bettas, I exercise extreme caution with all community applications.

With females bettas, I exercise medium caution.

I have in my 20g a female blue gourami and a female betta. At first the gourami harrassed the betta so much she hid behind rocks for almost a month. Then she started coming out as the gourami began leaving her alone.

Now it seems almost like they're strangely friends.

What do I mean by this? Well, that gourami chases almost everyone around once in a while - except the betta! And even more strange, everytime one of the other fish harass the betta, the gourami chases them away. I kid you not.