aka leopard gourami, climbing perch, spotted climbing perch, and as petsmart dubbed them, the african bush fish.

i am saving for a 40 gal having dismissed my 55 gal plans due to pricing, avail space, and my snippy landlady. this tank plus stand, hood and light, heater and 2nd filter (2 150 gph filters on opposing sides of the tank), and necessary substrate will cost roughly 200 less than a 55 gal kit plus stand and substrate.

currently i have this little guy, Oddjob, (who is roughly 1") in a 20 gal with 3 tiger barbs (all 1") 2 corys (1 & 1.5") and a clown pleco (2.5"). this works out great for now, but when Oddjob gets bigger and more aggressive i want him, and the tiger barbs (Egon, Ray, Venkman) to have more room. i want to add 3-5 more tank mates in addition to another climbing perch. any suggestions??

currently i am leaning to expand my barb school by 2 or 4 and a pictus cat.

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RIP "whitey" my albino pleco. found dead 5-21-12

29 gal- 2 leopard ctenopoma / 5 tiger barb / 5 corydoras catfish / 1 golden weather loach / 1 three spot gourami / 2 bolivian ram / 1 juvenile bristlenose pleco / Amazon sword / Java fern / Red Ludwigia / Wisteria / Anacharis
filtration- AquaClear 50, QuietFlow 20; 325 gph total

20 gal- 1 clown pleco / 8 black neon tetras / 1 neon dwarf gourami / 4 Asian glass cats / 5 green corydoras catfish
filtration- QuietFlow 30; 200 gph

This is one of my favorite fish!
Mine is about 3.5 to 4 inches now.

See the fish list in my sig. You'd be limited by tank size, so some fish would not go well, as they'd get to big. (Clown knife, sturgeon, polypterus)

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150G, 1 shovelnose sturgeon 8", 1 polypterus endilicheri 9", 1 leopard ctenapoma 4", 1 Distichodus Sexfasciatus 6", 1 Farlowella acus algae eater 8", 2 silver dollars, 2 tank bred angelfish, 1 clown knife 11", 1 Jaguar hybrid syntadonis 4", 6 African cichlids 3+"