Dwarf gourami like guppies, you should drop the fish food in a more spread out area so that the Dwarf gourami has a higher chance to snatch the food before the other fish do for as mentioned earlier, Dwarf gourami's are timid fish. Dwarf gouramis tolerate fairly high temperatures. Temperatures of are easily tolerated. Dwarf gouramis raised for aquarium trade in Singapore may carry dwarf gourami iridovirus. Recent research has shown that 22% of Singapore "Trichogaster lalius" carry this virus. A varied diet is very important to the dwarf gourami, which is an omnivore that prefers both algae-based foods and meaty foods.
Kissing gourami superior (upward-facing) as in other gourami families, the kissing gourami's mouth is highly protrusible as its family name suggests, the lips are lined with horny teeth. However, teeth are absent from the premaxilla, dentaries, palatine, and pharynx. The gill rakers are also well-developed and numerous. The visible scales of the body are ctenoid, whereas the scales of the top of the head are cycloid. Kissing gourami reach a maximum of in total length. There is no outward sexual dimorphism and is difficult to almost impossible to distinguish the sexes. Two colour morphs are encountered: greens, which have lengthwise lateral stripes