worried about overstocking-can you help?

Freddiesbuns

I have a 33g, and I currently have 7 corydoras melanistius, 1 thick-lipped gourami (sold to me as an honey-thanks to the posters here, I would still believe he's just a very big Honey Gourami!) and 3 royal tetras.

The royal tetras I want to rehome because they are not happy-too hard to find in my city, I can't find more of them and they are pecking each other to death from not being enough to establish a hierarchy. What I'd like is to replace them with other, easier to find fishes.

Problem is, I'd also like to give my gourami a mate. Do you think a couple of thick-lipped gouramis (that's if I manage to find a female, which isn't sure at all), 7 cories AND a school of tetras would be do-able in a 33g? I'm thinking neons, pink neons, maybe rummy-nose tetras. Other species seem too big. What do you think?

MoneyMitch

i would not try to get a mating pair of thick lips, they will get crazy aggressive with the other fish. i would go with some tetras (smaller ones)

Freddiesbuns

that's what I was worried about...do you think a single thick-lip would be happy 'though? I always read about how they must imperatively be kept in pair, if he's not going to be happy I will rehome him even 'though I'd rather keep him.

MoneyMitch

u said it urself they arent happy alone and would turn ur tank into a ufc ring if u mated in a community

Freddiesbuns

Sooo it's a damned if you do, damned if you don't kind of situation :( oh well, I'll see if I can rehome some of them.

JohnnyD44

haha money, I've never seen the UFC metaphor before! haha, thats great!