Lovely fish! I have a pearl gourami and he is sooo beautiful now, his belly is really orangey red , so stunning! Yours will turn out to be a beauty i am sure! Wish you could keep males together, I bought mine stupidly thinking he would live happily with my golden gourami... yeah, right! They both went for each other, bit some scales off.... Have left my pearl in the main tank as he is so stunning but had to move the golden to a smaller community before they killed each other! The pearl now thinks he is king of the tank until my plec comes out, that is! Looking forward to seeing your plec Stick some cucumber in, he will soon be too busy to even notice he is posing for pics!