[Jacob]

Sure, where is the best place to start a chocolate gourami thread? The tank I have right now is probably going to end up with them, it is too big for licorice gouramis.
There is overlap in interest with these two fish but this site is for licorice gouramis, so maybe there is another location that would be good for learning about chocolate gouramis.
I am most interested in selatanensis, and definitely want to know whatever anyone who’s kept them has to say about their experience with them.
I saw a talk about dwarf cichlids where the speaker said the right way to keep them is in very large groups, that this is how they live in the wild. I have a betta book by member RJ Goldstein and I think that’s where I read that albimarginata are mouthbrooders and live in fast flowing water, maybe they’re mouthbrooders because they live in fast water, I don’t know. But they tolerate each other, maybe because they simply have to, why waste energy fighting the current and seraching for mates. Something like that. Or they don’t guard eggs so they’re not as territorial, probably a mix of reasons.
Funny though, I saw albimarginata in a tank and they looked pretty mean, the males were a little torn up and launching really fast attacks on each other.