Kissing gourami
Helostoma temminckii
It rasps glass with jutting lips; the kissing is a mouth fight, not love.
3D model coming soon
Stats
- Size
- 22 cm
- Smallest tank
- 180 cm
- Temperature
- 23–28 °C
- Temperament
- Semi-aggressive
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Activity
- Moderate
- Water layer
- Mid water
- 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 litresToo small
- Standard90 cm · 180 litresToo small
- Wide120 cm · 300 litresToo small
- Living room180 cm · 650 litres21 of them
- Showcase250 cm · 1,200 litres40 of them
Who it lives with
Gets along
- Guppy
- Neon tetra
- Jack Dempsey
- Silver dollar
- Red rainbowfish
- Clown loach
- Siamese algae eater
- Moonlight gourami
- Bristlenose pleco
- Red tail shark
- Convict cichlid
- Bala shark
- Sailfin molly
- Pearl gourami
- Giant danio
- Boesemani rainbowfish
- Turquoise rainbowfish
- Keyhole cichlid
- Red zebra cichlid
- Kribensis
- Scissortail rasbora
- Kuhli loach
- Congo tetra
- Zebra loach
- and 40 more species
Caution
- DiscusNarrow shared temperature range
- SeverumBoth semi-aggressive
- Freshwater angelfishBoth semi-aggressive
- Rainbow sharkBoth semi-aggressive
- FrontosaBoth semi-aggressive
- Firemouth cichlidBoth semi-aggressive
- Yoyo loachBoth semi-aggressive
- Peacock cichlidBoth semi-aggressive
- SwordtailBoth semi-aggressive
- Three spot gouramiBoth semi-aggressive
- OscarBoth semi-aggressive
- Denison barbNarrow shared temperature range
- JulidochromisBoth semi-aggressive
- African butterflyfishBoth semi-aggressive
- Yellow lab cichlidBoth semi-aggressive
- Rosy barbNarrow shared temperature range
- Gold barbNarrow shared temperature range
- Dwarf gouramiBoth semi-aggressive
- Cockatoo cichlidBoth semi-aggressive
- Paradise fishNarrow shared temperature range
- Black skirt tetraBoth semi-aggressive
- Diamond tetraBoth semi-aggressive
- Tiger barbBoth semi-aggressive
- Hillstream loachNarrow shared temperature range
- Panda corydorasNarrow shared temperature range
- Chocolate gouramiNarrow shared temperature range
- German blue ramNarrow shared temperature range
- Odessa barbNarrow shared temperature range
- Serpae tetraBoth semi-aggressive
- Multies shell dwellerBoth semi-aggressive
- Black ghost knifefishBoth semi-aggressive
- Dwarf pufferBoth semi-aggressive
- KoiNarrow shared temperature range
Same familyGouramis and labyrinth fish
- Betta (Siamese fighting fish)Betta splendens
- Dwarf gouramiTrichogaster lalius
- Honey gouramiTrichogaster chuna
- Pearl gouramiTrichopodus leerii
- Three spot gouramiTrichopodus trichopterus
- Moonlight gouramiTrichopodus microlepis
- Sparkling gouramiTrichopsis pumila
- Chocolate gouramiSphaerichthys osphromenoides
- Paradise fishMacropodus opercularis