Rainbowfish Courting movie & pics

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6 MB movie showing their dance and displays

Male:
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http://pna.pricenetwork.ca/gallery/albums/userpics/13267/rainbowfixed.jpg

Male (top) trying to impress the female:
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Very nice! My 2 pearl gourami are courting and swimming together, doing the circle dance, since they were put into my bigger tank yesterday. I hadn't seen the female be so cozy with him before. Thy've been cruising the tank together all afternoon, reminds me of theose rainbows. BTW, how big are they? Those rainbows look huge.
 
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Swimfins, pearl gouramies are beautiful fish too. It must be very interesting and exciting to watch your pair together. The rainbows are pretty big, the male is about 5 or 6 inches in length.
 
Cool! There's nothing like watching rainbows court. They flare up and color up so well - its really neat to watch (I've been watching my boesmanis do it non stop for the past three days....they have to get tired sometime!).

Unfortunately, it'll take forever for me to watch the clip (dial up) so I'll have to check that out later.

What kind of rainbows are they..something like "assorted australian"? I'm having a hard time IDing them...
 
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