Dwarf gourami
Trichogaster lalius
It drifts up top, feeling out everything ahead with long fin threads.
3D model coming soon
Stats
- Size
- 7.5 cm
- Smallest tank
- 60 cm
- Temperature
- 23–28 °C
- Temperament
- Semi-aggressive
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Activity
- Calm
- Water layer
- Surface
- Care
- Moderate
- Group
- Lives on its own
- Coral
- Reef safe
These numbers are LumaReef simulation data, not a real aquarium care guide.
Which tank it fits
- Nano60 cm · 65 litres10 of them
- Standard90 cm · 180 litres30 of them
- Wide120 cm · 300 litres50 of them
- Living room180 cm · 650 litres108 of them
- Showcase250 cm · 1,200 litres200 of them
Who it lives with
Gets along
- Guppy
- Neon tetra
- Demasoni cichlid
- Molly
- Celebes rainbowfish
- Bolivian ram
- Checkerboard cichlid
- Congo tetra
- Neon dwarf rainbowfish
- Bronze corydoras
- Zebra loach
- Betta (Siamese fighting fish)
- Silver hatchetfish
- Scissortail rasbora
- Pearl danio
- Sterbai corydoras
- Kuhli loach
- Julii corydoras
- Dwarf chain loach
- Rummynose tetra
- Emperor tetra
- Zebra danio
- Giant danio
- Cherry barb
- and 40 more species
Caution
- DiscusNarrow shared temperature range
- Gold barbNarrow shared temperature range
- Cockatoo cichlidBoth semi-aggressive
- Rosy barbNarrow shared temperature range
- Paradise fishNarrow shared temperature range
- Black skirt tetraBoth semi-aggressive
- Diamond tetraBoth semi-aggressive
- Hillstream loachNarrow shared temperature range
- Panda corydorasNarrow shared temperature range
- Chocolate gouramiNarrow shared temperature range
- German blue ramNarrow shared temperature range
- Yellow lab cichlidBoth semi-aggressive
- Odessa barbNarrow shared temperature range
- Serpae tetraBoth semi-aggressive
- Denison barbNarrow shared temperature range
- Multies shell dwellerBoth semi-aggressive
- JulidochromisBoth semi-aggressive
- African butterflyfishBoth semi-aggressive
- SwordtailBoth semi-aggressive
- Three spot gouramiBoth semi-aggressive
- Dwarf pufferBoth semi-aggressive
- Yoyo loachBoth semi-aggressive
- Peacock cichlidBoth semi-aggressive
- Firemouth cichlidBoth semi-aggressive
- Freshwater angelfishBoth semi-aggressive
- Rainbow sharkBoth semi-aggressive
- SeverumBoth semi-aggressive
- Kissing gouramiBoth semi-aggressive
- FrontosaBoth semi-aggressive
- OscarBoth semi-aggressive
- Black ghost knifefishBoth semi-aggressive
- KoiNarrow shared temperature range
Same familyGouramis and labyrinth fish
- Betta (Siamese fighting fish)Betta splendens
- Honey gouramiTrichogaster chuna
- Pearl gouramiTrichopodus leerii
- Three spot gouramiTrichopodus trichopterus
- Moonlight gouramiTrichopodus microlepis
- Sparkling gouramiTrichopsis pumila
- Chocolate gouramiSphaerichthys osphromenoides
- Paradise fishMacropodus opercularis
- Kissing gouramiHelostoma temminckii