[Peter Finke]

I hesitate to agree to the wish of a special category “water parameters”. There are the categories “breeding” and “methods” for this. Enlarging the category-list (what about food? tank size? diseases?) means proceeding slowly to the usual great complexity of many forums. Our forum still is quite compact and clearly arranged; we should retain that.
Besides: you don’t need different water parameters for the different licorice gouramis. You need only two simple rules: 1. (Nearly) no calcium and very low conductivity (between 10 and 100), 2. As few germs as possible = a pH clearly below 7.0. The lower the pH, the fewer germs. Everything between 3.00 and 6.5 is possible.