Thing is chocolates are just so fussy, I'd want something a bit more hardy. Plus they need a much higher temp than the other fish I want to stock.
Licorice gouramis are lovely and would suit the theme I'm going for very well. It very much depends on availability, I think my ideal tank now would be:
2 licorice gouramis
6/7 hengel's rasbora
A few cherry shrimp
Aqadvisor would probably go mad at me if I inputted that into there, but I'm quite happy that it'll work. I'd settle for a honey gourami if I can't find licorice gouramis but I'm not sure what I'd replace the hengels' with.
I think this'll look nice, with my nice big piece of rootwood in one corner, hairgrass covering the bottom, sand substrate with a few pebbles here and there, crypts and vallis towards the back and maybe java fern, and perhaps some moss on the rootwood... hmmmm