"Nikki" wrote in
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Oh I downloaded this OE quote fix (got to see if I can figure it out
now)

With my 2 year old blue gourami I have two little blue gourami's and
the 1 kissing gourami who has been living with the blue gourami's for
over a month now, in the last few days I noticed he is really bugging
my 2 year old blue gourami, he never did before, now he is kissing
/sucking on the Blue gourami's side, he just don't want to leave him
alone, he is much younger and smaller so you would think he would not
continue to be such a pain, I guess if he does not stop I will have to
get rid of him, I did ask my neighbor if she wanted him and she said
she would take him, she has a full grown pl*co in a 55 by him self
which she wants to put in my 120g tank because when he is straight up
and down (top to bottom) in the 55g he dont have enough room he is a
monster, I have not decided yet if I will, but she said if I needed to
I could put Mr. kissing gourami in her tank with him. Any chance he
will stop or is it better to remove him, I don't see no marks or
anything on my blue gourami like he is being injured but he is
defiantly being annoyed.

My experience is that once they start being a pain, they will continue
to be a pain. Unless the behavior is because of mating.

I've had to remove all gouramies from my community tank. I've had
various blue and opaline gouramies get a wild hair up their butts. Once
they do, they seem to pick on anything and everything, even eachother.

I have had a good deal of success with one treatment. Isolate the
offender for a few weeks. Then reintroduce him to the others. In many
cases this can help. I've even just moved them to another tank with
other fish. That has helped also.

HTH