Chocolate Gourami
Sphaerichthys osphromenoides
Difficulty (1-5): 4/5
Description
Brown gourami banded in cream, and a mouthbrooder. Notoriously prone to disease unless kept in warm, soft, very stable blackwater.
Water test requirements
- pH: 4.5 – 6.5
- Temperature: 26 – 30 °C
- General Hardness (GH): 1 – 6 °dGH
- Nitrate (NO3): ≤ 15 mg/L