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10g are just too small for a new hobbiest. When it comes to the aggression towards the fellow Gouramis then the male Pearl Gouramis are in question here.
I would not recommend puffers with anything that are relativly slow moving gouramis and have longer wavy fins gouramis.
Gourami chasing but not nipping. Hey guys somewhat new to the fish world i have these two dwarf gouramis an it seems like ones female an ones a male but the female is constantly chasing an nipping the male even tho i have planted areas on separate sides of the tanks. What should i do or will it stop. Just added the cobolt one.
Please help my male Dwarf Gourami is chasing and nipping my female gourami of which I not sure which type she is. The female is a little bit larger than the one chasing her. My tank is 40 gallons and i have two loaches 8 neons 7 glowlights and a small BN Pleco.
Please help with some ideas thanks much appreciated. Gouramis loaches neons plecos. Gouramis are most territorial towards other Gouramis and are particularly aggressive towards Gouramis of the same sex.
To put it simply if a fish looks similar and is of the same sex a Gourami may see this as a threat and will become aggressive towards the other fish often chasing after it or nipping its fins. The gold gouramis are color variations of the Trichogaster trichopterus aka the blue three spot gourami and are every bit as temperamental. Your tank is not too small to house the two of them comfortably if they were inclined to be peaceful.
Usually they are most aggressive toward each other but sometimes they do hurt other fish. So this morning Rob and I noticed the two Gouramis are acting weird. Theyre chasing each other around theres a bunch of nipping going on and theyre doing a dance with each other.
Its like theyre cupping each other. I cant explain it well. All I can say is that there is no bubble nest and im pretty sure I have 2 males although I had my doubts in the beginning.
Male Dwarf gouramis are pretty aggressive for their size arent they. Out of sight out of mind so adding plenty of floating plants like Water Sprite can help cut down the size of each territory but it may not be enough. Gourami territory-holding is closely linked to the water surface.
If the loser is being crowded down to the bottom. Meaning it has never participated in the chasing nipping that the tiger barbs and silver dollars and danios do. It does not get picked on but it does not pick on the other fish either as if it is not even included in the pecking order.
One strange behavior that it is doing is nipping trying to eat my fake plants. Many tetra species are well known for chasing and fin nipping its quite normal. But not for biting plants.
Ive never seen a gourami nibble wood thats a new one to me for sure. They do not eat wood. There are few fish who do but many of them will graze on wood because it nourishes a variety of fungi moulds and micro organisms too small.
The fish i just talked about are in a 10 gallon along with 4 corydoras. I would not reccomend that as i do 25 water changes every 2 days. Those fish were taken from a friend and i dont have a seperate tank for them.
Honestly you should get a bigger tank 20g min. 10g are just too small for a new hobbiest. Ive got a pretty big issue guys.
One of my fish attacked my dwarf gourami the other night. I dont see any aggression during the day. I woke up to feed them the other morning to find he has a hold in his side to the point that you can see a bone and the same spot on the other side has been pecked at.
He still breaths and swims a little. When it comes to the aggression towards the fellow Gouramis then the male Pearl Gouramis are in question here. Females never show aggression towards any of their fellow Gouramis in the tank.
But males can be seen chasing nipping and stressing out. Feb 10 2004. I would not recommend puffers with anything that are relativly slow moving gouramis and have longer wavy fins gouramis.
I have dwarf puffers and good tank mates for them are fish that are quick movers ie. Tetras a few smaller barbs etc. I have 3 dwarfs 3 neons and 2 ottos in a 10 gallon planted and they do just fine.
Jan 7 2014. Sorry to say but that tank is very very overstocked both space-wise and bioload-wise. If you want to keep the gourami most of all and cant get a larger tank pretty much immediately I would rehome all of the other fish.
A single honey gourami is full stocking for a 10 gallon tank. Unfortunately hes the only fish in the. I recently purchased a lovely Pearl Gourami and had been told that they were peaceful fish and good for community tanks.
He spends a lot of his time chasing my glassfish larger tetras and cories when they arent in hiding. No nipping or anything like that but he frequently chases others around the tank. Unfortunately i did my water change today and changed the decorbut the rainbow shark is still chasing the dwarf gourami You might either just let it ride out or get rid of the RS.
Ive kept the two together for a while by having a few decorations that have open space at the tank bottom. A fake hollow log and a. The gouramis seemed to go back to normal after I removed the eggsnest.
Then I noticed 3 days ago that overnight the male had made a massive bubble nest over the middle half of the tank and was fiercely chasing and nipping at both the females but I did not see any spawning happening. Yeah I got them in this 50 1 12 months ago. I was going to get the two more after I had my tank dialed in.
They were in a smaller tank before this one. I thought about a gourami I do love them quite a bit. I have a gourami tanks mixed with randomness in a.
Gouramis are most territorial towards other Gouramis and are particularly aggressive towards Gouramis of the same sex. To put it simply if a fish looks similar and is of the same sex a Gourami may see this as a threat and will become aggressive towards the other fish often chasing after it or nipping its fins. What should I do with my opaline gourami I have gotten these two yesterday and the one with the one dot keeps chasing the other and nipping at its fin I dont know what gender they are and if i should return the other and can I just have the one.
Moreover Black Skirt Tetra Rainbow Shark Serpae Tetra Kissing Gourami Buenos Aires Tetra etc also comes under the list of fin nipping species in a tank. These fin nippers chase and bite the fins especially of long-fining and smaller fish than them. Thus caution is significant while selecting their tank mates.
The Dwarf gourami has long been among the most popular community fish but in recent years its reputation as a hardy easy-to-keep aquarium resident has taken a knock. To their credit Dwarf gouramis are very pretty little fish sporting colours that wouldnt look out. Gouramis are most territorial towards other Gouramis and are particularly aggressive towards Gouramis of the same sex.
To put it simply if a fish looks similar and is of the same sex a Gourami may see this as a threat and will become aggressive towards the other fish often chasing after it or nipping its fins.