Sparkling Gourami Fish

I ordered 4 - on arrival, one appeared DOA. This was during winter conditions - the heat pack was cold. I put them in the hang-on-side tank to prepare for acclimation, and added a drop of Prime since it looked like one was dead. As I prepared to remove the one I assumed was dead, I noticed faint gill movement. So I was wondering if I should put it out of misery or give it a chance - thankfully I chose the latter! While I was still doing the drip, it started to revive. About 2 weeks later, I have 4 healthy little sparklers, and have even heard them make their chirping noises. So - if you see any signs of life, give it a chance! Also, if you have a pest snail problem, these guys love to eat snail eggs and I have seen them eyeballing the smaller snails. I love when their eyes flash blue!

Fantastic little fish! Shipping was great, excellent packaging. They are so adorable and arrived in great shape! Wonderful personalities fun to watch.

I picked up two SG. The staff at Flip aquatics were great to meet and I got to pick up some extra plants while I was there. I got home and acclimated the SG in the tank w one I already have. I believe I got a female and a male. I was wanting all males but we will see how it works out. They have seemed to warm up very well to the tank and their mates (Cory habrosas and shrimp) they come to the front of the tank often and now I even see the big one more often. Very satisfied!

I used to keep this very resilient as specie of Gouramis back in country, this Gouramis were always confused with a specie's of Betta's that were similar in size as this Gouramis. They bring back a lot of memories, that's why when I sow them i didn't wait to get this Gouramis. This Gouramis can be kept by anyone with some knowledge of how to have fish and the one how haven't own this Gouramis. One thing about this Gouramis is that they eat like a pigeon if you keep throwing them food they eat till they died so be mindful of the food.

Ordered a five-pack of these little fish and they arrived healthy and quite active(I even received an extra fish). They're in my 6.8-gallon nano set up. there's some wood, moss, guppy grass and duckweed in the tank atm, (going to continue stocking it with plants as I can). I do have some pathos growing in the filter area of the tank as well. Going to be adding some hornwort, java fern, java moss, and some anubias nana petite in the future. There's one blue mystery snail in there I've named Bessie and the plants had a couple hitchhiking snails (BONUS!) on them. Going to be adding a couple of nerites, a few Malaysian trumpets and some shrimp to the set up eventually as well.

The pictures below are pre duckweed, guppy grass, sparkling gourami.
The fake plant over in the left side with the pagoda decoration will be replaced with natural decor at some point and the guppies were in there from my established 20-gallon tank along with those decorations/ used substrate/ and filter media to cycle the tank. Took approximately 6.5 weeks to cycle and the guppies have since been moved back to my 20gallon as they're quite boisterous and nippy for the calm loving gourami's that now reside there.

I’m very happy with my fish , I order this fish 2 times just because I wanted more . They are healthy, happy and making sounds ( I call them my crickets ) love, love, this and every fish I have order .

Was so impressed with the speed of delivery, the carefully packaged fish, and my juvenile sparkling gourami is doing GREAT after 10 days. I expected it to be shy but it's loving the floaters in the tank, eating sinking micro pellets happily and going all around exploring a 21 tank where he will be a centerpiece fish. Beautiful little guy, so happy I chose this one.

Sparkling Gourami

Wow, what a beautiful fish. The eyes are amazing & such a cute lil guy/gal. Sparkles knows when it's feeding time, not shy at all & comes right up to the dropper and takes the food. Arrived in perfect condition, just made it into his/her tank Saturday out of quarantine, no issues at all.

The fish were great! The heating packs were still warm. The fish are acclimating really well to my tank. The fish are beautiful, they are coloring up nicely. I couldn’t be happier.

The Sparkling Gourami’s fit in well with my heavily planted community tank. They keep the crazy neon and ember tetras in check. I plan on purchasing more fish from Flip Aquatics.

I absolutely love these. I bought 4 and will get more in the future. They all arrived healthy and are very active. They have adjusted well to their new community. So pretty and love their blue eyes.

Sparkling Gourami

These guys looked a little rough when they first arrived. Some tailfin damage, not much coloration and while well fed they seemed a little shipping stressed so I decided to wait before doing a review. After a week they were looking better, finnage was growing back and they were beginning to show some color. Now after two weeks tailfins have grown back and the coloration is excellent. Over all these are great little fish.

I'll preface this review with the fact I also order 19 green neon tetra and received 23 in total. All bigger than I assumed they would be and thriving in my tank. The gourami looked frail but that could've just been me since I'm not used to seeing them that small. Upon release it hid in my jungle of water wisteria. I didn't see it again until two days later when it was stuck to the sponge on the intake of my hob filter. No pictures were taken as it beings it arrived live and the guarantee of live arrival was met.

I love these fish. I have them in a species only tank and they are such a joy to watch. All are healthy and thriving.

Fish all arrived healthy, one did have a potential issue on the tail fin, but nothing one round of antibiotics couldnt fish. Beautiful fish. The only reason I gave 4 stars is there was a random mystery fish that arrived with my sparkling gourami that I had to figure out placement for. I didnt ask for the little guy lol. Thanks for the high quality fish and well packaged shipping.

Fish came healthy and have adapted very well and are growing !

I ordered 5 sparkling gouramis and they arrived healthy and happy! I didn't realize how beautiful these fish are - their bright blue eyes are stunning! The packaging and instructions were great. Thanks so much, Flip Aquatics!

I ordered 5 (was sent 6), and one was DOA. Not a big deal since the 5 have settled in and are doing well. Overall a good experience, thank you!

Great first experience with Flip Aquatics! Also first time buying Sparkling Gouramis and they've been great. Arrived healthy and colored up pretty fast, two weeks in and still have all 6!! This won't be my last purchase at Flip Aquatics!!

Ordered several items and was worried about my fish especially due to shipping delays. (not Flip's fault) I was pleasantly surprised to find that everyone was alive and well when the box finally arrived! Packaging inside was excellent and although the heat pack had quit by then, the temperature inside the insulated box was not too bad at all. It's now been 3 weeks and I haven't los5 a single fish! Thank you Flip Aquatics! I will be ordering again.

I ordered 5, but Flip sent me a +1. Almost a month later, and everyone is alive and thriving. The sparkling gouramis are fantastic--they have such big personalities. I will just sit and watch them. Overall, quality fish.

Arrived in great condition. Beautiful colors and are loving there new home. Been about a month and I have one already making the little sound that they make. Very cool fish and I highly recommend them.

Very happy with my purchase.

I love these little guys!!! They came very happy and healthy and colored up quickly. I got five of them and it looks like I have two males and 3 females. They keep to themselves in my 55 gallon and are usually seen gliding through water lettuce roots. They don’t bother any of the other fish but sometimes squabble amongst themselves but I haven’t seen any damage done. Perfect addition to my peaceful community tank. :)

These are the coolest little guys. They all arrived healthy and are happy and outgoing in my heavily planted tank with a group of kuhli loaches. I hope to get some live cultures going for them but in the mean time they are eating well on a variety of flake and frozen foods.

Ordered 7, got 8. A couple were pretty small but all are healthy and happy and growing! Beautiful addition to my tank! Thanks Flip!