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garfieldnfish · 12-01-2005, 07:51 AM

I have 4 white and 3 black skirt tetras, 3 von rio tetras and 4 glolight tetras in one tank. The skirts school together but they are really the same fish anyway. When I had only the four gliloghts and one von rio, the von rio hung around the glolights. But since I added the other 2 von rios, all von rios picked a different corner of the tank as their territory and do not school with anyone to include their own kind. The glolights mostly stick together except for one male that wonders off some of the time. They are in a 46 gal with some salt and pepper and barbatus corys, SAEs, one molly (the most aggressive fish amongst them) and one bristlenose. So they are not threatened by any fish, maybe that influences schooling behaviour. I will eventually get more von rios but they seem fine and happy with the way things are.
I would only get 1 three spot gourami unless you are certain you have one male and one female. If you should end up with 2 males it will cause problems. Three spots are some of the most aggressive under the gouramis.

12-01-2005, 07:51 AM	#10
garfieldnfish Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 661	I have 4 white and 3 black skirt tetras, 3 von rio tetras and 4 glolight tetras in one tank. The skirts school together but they are really the same fish anyway. When I had only the four gliloghts and one von rio, the von rio hung around the glolights. But since I added the other 2 von rios, all von rios picked a different corner of the tank as their territory and do not school with anyone to include their own kind. The glolights mostly stick together except for one male that wonders off some of the time. They are in a 46 gal with some salt and pepper and barbatus corys, SAEs, one molly (the most aggressive fish amongst them) and one bristlenose. So they are not threatened by any fish, maybe that influences schooling behaviour. I will eventually get more von rios but they seem fine and happy with the way things are. I would only get 1 three spot gourami unless you are certain you have one male and one female. If you should end up with 2 males it will cause problems. Three spots are some of the most aggressive under the gouramis.