opaline gouramis?

[LadyInBlue04]

i love these guys. i've been looking them up and researching them quite a bit.
i have recently started up a 30 g tank. it's done it's cycle and i'm looking to stock it.
right now i have 2 platies
4 neons
4 harliquins
4 cory's
4 zebra danios
and a pleco
would it be too much to ad 2 opaline gouramis? i keep getting mixed adult size information. some places say 4" some say 6".
i just want a healthy happy aquarium. and i think this last addition would make it just right.
if i could get any input that would be amazing.
thanks
LIB

 

[LadyInBlue04]

oh my gosh, i'm sorry guys. i don't know what happened, i only planned to post my question once, and well it came out three times, and well i tried to delete the other 2 and it wont let me so i don't know what to do.
sorry again.
LIB

 

[twoluvcats]

don't worry lib...it happens to all of us...sometimes the server gets hinky...especially in the AM

 

[LongTime]

An opaline is a color variation of a blue and I've had 6: blues. Plus, they can be a little aggresive with fish like neons. Many pople have had good luck with a mix like that in a tank that size, but I would not try it.

 

[Clown_Loach_Kid]

I loved my Opaline but he was a bit pushy with smaller fish.

 

[Hatchet]

Gourami have great personalities and they're fun to watch but every gourami I've kept have turned into little murderers, more so around feeding time.

My current gourami will corner any fish that trys to aproach food at the top of the tank until after he's eaten everything. Then he'll rest for a few before moving to down to do the same thing at the bottom to my cories. In my experience Gourami are pigs and will pretty much claim and eat any food that enters the tank.

About the only thing he doesn't get agressive towards are the snails, although he does knock them of the tank walls from time to time. Probally because he thinks the're eating something he would like to try.

I've kept gourami for years and never run into a peaceful one. So if you're after a peaceful community I'd go with something other than a pair of gourami because more often then not they will bully your other fish.