Can Dwarf gourami Live With Honey gourami?

Both sides of this pairing come with a warning. Adding other anabantoids to a dwarf gourami tank can make some males very aggressive, and the honey gourami is an anabantoid. From the other direction, the honey is slow moving and easily intimidated or outcompeted for food by more vigorous tankmates, and territorial or otherwise aggressive species are the ones its profile says to leave out.

Nothing else separates them. Both take 22 to 27 °C and pH 6 to 7.5, both want a planted tank with floating cover, and both need calm access to the humid air above the surface.

If you keep them together, use a tank long enough for two territories, break the sightlines with planting and wood, and buy one male dwarf gourami rather than two. Feed in more than one place so the slower honey gets its share, and keep four to six honeys so attention is spread. Watch the first fortnight: a honey that hangs in a corner and stops feeding needs another tank.