Dwarf Gourami Compatible With Peacock Goby?

I had peacock gobies/gudgeons years ago. I think you'd be OK with them. The may be the same colour, but the body shape is different (torpedo vs dinner plate) and they live mainly on the bottom while gouramis live higher up. The only possible confliction would come if/when the gobies bred as the male will defend the eggs.


On the subject of breeding, mine did in the quarantine tank! They like the tiniest spaces, so small you wouldn't thing they'd both fit. I had a terracotta plantpot about 1 inch tall, and on one occasion it ended upside down after a water change. They both got in through the hole on the plantpot base and spawned. With this species, it's the male that guards the eggs.
Read up on how to tell the sexes (it's to do with the shape of the forehead). Males can fight unless the tank is big enough for more than one territory

From Seriously Fish

The peacock goby can be kept in small groups without problems. They will squabble amongst themselves, but this is almost always restricted to displaying and flaring and in fact makes for a more entertaining spectacle than if you just have a couple.

Depends how big your tank is. I had problems with more than one male in a tank with a 24 x 12 inch footprint, but bigger should be able to accommodate more than one male. More than one female shouldn't be a problem.

I was lucky. We have trips to York a few times a year so husband can look in Banks at CDs, and there is a fish shop in the way home that had some in. This was a few years ago; I don't remember having seen them recently either.

You could try http://www.tropicalfishfinder.co.uk.
Put "Peacock Goby" in the Keywords box, then click "Find my fish". When the name comes up, click on "Stock" and it will list shops that have it. Obviously only a small number of all fish shops are included, but all branches of MA are there which can be useful if you have several reasonably near. At present, just six shops have it, all in south and east England.

Which bit of Yorkshire?

I got mine from Fintastic, just south of Northallerton on the Thirsk road. Though I do realise that Yorkshire is the biggest county and you're probably at the other end with talk of Nottinghamshire