My Dwarf Gourmai's Feeler has been nibbled at!

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Hi everyone, It's been a while since I posted and I need some more great advice please :-)


Basically, My female Dwarf Gourami has had one of her 'Feelers' completely nibbled away :sad:

I know the culprit, The Male Dawrf Gourami, I'm going to get him to an LFS A.S.A.P.

I have put into the tank a doasage of Melafix and I did approximately a 30 percent water change to clean the water, I didn't do more incase I stressed the Gourami anymore than she already is.

Basically, Once the Male has gone will the females 'Feelers' heal or will they never grow back, I really hope that she's not stuck like it for the rest of her life. :mad:

Anyway,

Thanks for reading this far and I hope you can help me

Cheers
Dan
 
This may or may not be helpful, but my male opaline gourami 75% of one of his feeler fins a few weeks ago, and while I don't think it is growing back (if it is, the fin grows slowly) he hasn't changed much in behavior. As for how he lost it, I haven't a clue. He is a full inch biger than anything else in the tank, including the female gourami. Maybe the filter sucked it in and broke it. She should be fine, albeit scarred.
 
Hi, Thanks for the quick reply :-)

She's eating and everthing as normal, I don't know why but she has gradually shrunk over the past few months I've had her living with the male, and the male is now about 2 times the size of her!

I'm really worried now because no LFS is going to want to buy the female with a missing 'Feeler Fin'.

I think I'm just gonna wait for a few days, I could put the Male in my other tank, but the problem is will he be ok with an Angelfish, Golden Nugget Pleco, and a Flying Fox?!?!


Cheers
Dan :-)
 
To answer your question about the feeler. I will grow back if she is left alone and she is healthy. It will probably grow back at a funny angle. My pearl and my angel contend for the control of the top of the tank all the time. I don't think a dwarf would survive that very well.
 
how do you know if a gourmai is man or female? pics would be nice, i plan on getting 1 of each for my 29gal but havent decided on witch kind.

Thanks
-Q
 
Hi

The Male is bigger and more brightly coloured, The female is smaller and has no bright colours on her.

Below is a link which will hopefully help indentify the type of Dwarf Gouramis I've got:

http://www.aqualandpetsplus.com/Gouram152.jpg

There are two of these in the tank, and as I said, one is very brightly coloured and aggresive, the other (Which IMHO is the female) Is non aggresive and not at all brightly coloured.

My Dads away for the week so I can't get the camera because he's got it.

Thanks

Dan
 
If it helps, our male dwarf honey gourami's dorsal fin grew much more elongated at the back when he matured, he was also bigger and more colourful than our female. He was (and is, so he is in isolation at the mo) a bully. He stressed out our female gourami so much that even though when we got a new tank, cycled it and transferred her over, it was too late and she died. She was too weak after being bullied!

Ours got along with our flying fox whilst in the community tank, they dwell mostly in separate parts of the tank so they're ok. Also if they are both aggressive they might cancel each other out. In our tank we had a good power balance (our betta would put bully gourami in his place) and nobody got overly heckled by any other fish, until some rams were introduced and bully gourami went crazy at them @_@;
 
Hi

Thanks, It makes me feel better knowing that other peoples male Gouramis are bigger than their females.
I know what you mean about the flying fox, He seems to go to parts of the tank that other fish never do lol. He spends all his time under bogwood and sometimes you don't see him for a few days lol.

Cheers,
Dan
 
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