Honey Gourami And Ram Compatibility?

I had honey gouramis for years, the only reason I don't now is because I have emperor tetras and I don't think the gouramis would cope well with such active fish.

I never had a problem with them and other fish. The only squabbling I ever saw was between the females when I had a trio. The males did chase females when they wanted to breed but nothing damaging. I kept honey gouramis with apistogrammas and bolivian rams (not all at the same time!) and had no issues.

Since both rams and honey gouramis have similar water requirements, they should be OK together. The only problem you might have is rams eating shrimps, certainly baby shrimps.



Out of idle curiosity, which colour honeys do you have? I always preferred wild coloured ones, which have become hard to get so I settled for yellows.