There are no Malavi in the next tub along, the pink one which was the first Nirmali gave me. It was set against the ehala tree, which is about parallel with the croton bush, so the tub is further north than the other one, and to the west.
I tried to have lotuses there, but failed as I have noted, and the mud there was removed. When that was done I put in several grey gourami, to go with the red carp that were there, and two white fish, a Malavi and what Kavi insists is a Mozambique. But the carp died, and we thought this might be because the Malavi had attacked them so we removed him. The Mozambique does chase the gourami, but this seems to be a game for no damage has been done, and all six of them have survived.
I did put in two little red carp when I got some more for other ponds, but one died. The other however grew, and is almost a match for the other seven big fish. And then, since there was one pink tetra in there from the days of the mud, I tried to get some more. But only red ones were available, so there were for some time just three of them there, along with the pink one. They ignore him however, so he sails blithely about on his own, while the other three are often seen together. He has better luck with some orange tetra I got later to supplement the red, though there again he is very different from them.
The first picture shows one of the gourami with the Mozambique and the surviving red carp, all three about the same size. That shows them all well, but the next one has the other two between netting whereas the one gourami there is on the bottom right beneath some netting.
Then we see a gourami with a small pink fish and a small red one, I think the tetra, while the next two pictures have a couple of gourami in each, first with the carp and then with something pink or white which could be the Mozambique, but is more likely the pink tetra.