Gourami lovers?

[supgourami]

Well, Me, I love gouramis. I have so many, I don't think I have enough fingers.



3 Three spot gouramis- 2 Blue- Momma and Idget
1 Opaline- Poppa

2 Pearl Gouramis- Petey and Rex

4 Dwarf Gouramis- 2 Neon- Butch and Matilda
2 Red Flame- Fernando and Flo

2 Snakeskin gouramis- Fish Stick and Harriet




If anyone has any gouramis, post it. Tell me their names if they got em, tell me their species. I'm interested in knowing anything I can about gouramis. and different species.



So yea, don't be shy.

[Jericho]

I have 4 gouramis:
3 Three spot gouramis 2 males 1 female
1 Opaline male

They all get along and actually it looks like the school at times. And they say they are suposed to be teritorial ;) Here is a site that has some info about the most common gouramis.

http://freshaquarium.about.com/cs/anabantids1/a/gouramicare.htm

[dorkfish]

I have a female three spot gourami, had a pair of powder blues and a male drawf, but the three spot drastically shortened thier lifespans :( .Also lots of bettas, I not only love gourami, but the whole family(anibantids).

I think I'm gonna start building a beter gourami collection after I move.

[supgourami]

Yea, me too, I have numerous bowls with bettas in my room.


Labyrinth breathers are my kind of fish.

[stingray4540]

I had two for a long time, a dwarf flame and a dwarf blue.
the flame died not too long ago, his name was sunny. and my blue is sick right now, I'm trying to cure him, his name is fishbert.

[rosita]

I have had 3 powder blue dwarf males for over 6 months--not very long. Harry and Larry came from one LFS, Spike another (his dorsal fin is distorted--the front 1/3 spikes forward, the rest to the back). In a 10 all together, same time, I created areas for them so there would be no aggression. It worked, and the most they did was play "tailchase" with out physical attacks.
6 weeks ago Harry swelled up HUGE, with no pineconing, I researched and researched, asked and posted pix on some sites, to no avail. Used Maracyn 2, then prazi, along with even more water changes (I keep my tanks very clean, quite religious about it--it IS, after all, the foundation to their health).
Put him in a makeshift hospital tank, he stayed the same, so I decided to euthanize him. Internal organs must have swelled way beyond return, and he had no quality of life--although throughout the entire time, he swam, ate, acted normal in every way, as though he didn't look like he'd swallowed a giant grape. Didn't have the courage to do an autopsy. My little buddy.

Continued to treat the other 2 with prazi; quarantined Spike as he was swelling; I just euthanized him about 45 minutes ago. Larry had been doing well, still having healthy poops, etc., but last nite doing a wc, I notices some thin white thready stuff (he's in the hospital tank, 5g, now). Also a bit of swelling--I'm afraid I'm going to lose him, too. This is sad. I don't know how the parasites, if that's what it was, got in their tank--I had added some anacharis, and two mystery snails from PetSmart; my research said that snails don't carry parasites etc., but I'm not sure what research that is based upon.
So, I absolutely love gouramis; I had bettas for years, they are awesome, so I thought I'd try a relative. Don't know if I'll try them again; or maybe it's the dwarf variety that's more susceptible to disease. :huh:

[god61021]

i have five blue gouramis that i actually bought from wal-mart over a year ago.(feel free to send hate mail). if im sexing them right i have one male and four females with the biggest one being named "grandma".ive had others like dwarf ,honey, and pearl. but the blues were the only ones i liked enough to keep.the honey gourami actually had a bitter taste......ok im just being mean i gave them to my ex-girlfriend but the blues stay they were actually the first fish ive ever bought ive spent countless hours watching their "tentacles" they are in my grow out tank its fun to add new fish and watch them surround them and "feel" them.

[misopeenut]

i have a dwarf honey gourami. i just love how they are so curious and touch every new thing in the tank with those antenna-like fins(?)

[budrecki]

1 sunset
1 blue (aka 3 spot)
1 gold
1 opaline
1 powder blue


still looking for a chocolate, pearl, red, moonlight, and honey
,

[supgourami]

Blue, gold and opaline gouramis are all three spot gouramis.


In other words, they are all the same species, just different color variations.

[pugwash]

I've just got 2 Pearl Gourami's in my 'new' 55g, a nice 2" male and female. Always wanted them and am suprised as they have a fair bit of individual character.

Rosita, I've found that the dwarf gourami's tend to be a lot more fragile than their larger cousins. Give a couple of pearl's a go.

[misopeenut]

man i love the chocolate gourami, theyre so hard to keep tho...
ive had no luck with them.. its too hard for me to keep the low ph taht they like.

[dorkfish]

man i love the chocolate gourami, theyre so hard to keep tho...
ive had no luck with them.. its too hard for me to keep the low ph taht they like.

Have you tried not keeping the PH low? Stable water is prefered over instable water wich is sometimes the right PH.

[psilo]

I have always loved the look of gouramis and have only ever kept dwarf and kissing gouramis. I used to love my kissing gourami. He grew quite large and i had him for 7 years.
My question is this. I have recently got back into fish keeping and have set up a new 4 foot tank. How many pairs of gouramis could i safetly keep that would allow a mix of other community fish too? Also which species would you recommend to start with?
Thanks

[dorkfish]

I have always loved the look of gouramis and have only ever kept dwarf and kissing gouramis. I used to love my kissing gourami. He grew quite large and i had him for 7 years.
My question is this. I have recently got back into fish keeping and have set up a new 4 foot tank. How many pairs of gouramis could i safetly keep that would allow a mix of other community fish too? Also which species would you recommend to start with?
Thanks

Start a seperate thread for this.

[misopeenut]

Have you tried not keeping the PH low? Stable water is prefered over instable water wich is sometimes the right PH.

well the chocolate gourami ive dealt with was wild caught so i tried using peat moss to keep the ph as close as their home.
i know stable water is good thats why i stopped raising chocos, couldnt keep the ph to be stable.

[SC13NTIFIC]

Had one powder blue gourami-so gracefull, watching him was almost like swimming in the tank.
Now I have an opaline gourami, changes colours right in front of you almost.
My next tank (55 gallon) will have at least 10 gourami's in it. They are great fish

[dorkfish]

I refuse to believe an opaline gourami at any size can be suported by a 1g tank. You are being cruel to the fish by keeping it in that small a tank.

I hope that 55g is coming really soon, for your fishes sake.

[RockabillyChick]

i have a male red honey dwarf gourami. eventually when i get a bigger tank i'm going to get a couple females for him.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v65/Celeste_Eden/pets/gourami-good.jpg

[khombre]

i have 4 dwarf honey gouramis, i have em in a tank with some swordtails, they always roam around trying to touch evrything with their "arms" :duh:

[jaymasta]

hey, Iam all about the gouramis LOL
I have 6 in my tank all together, 1 two spot, 4 redish blue ones, and 1 with a line going right through the middle, they look like very tropical fish, I like the tentacile thhings that are coming off of them, I would like to get a few more with more diferent colours though.

[onepawnup]

I have a golden 3 opaline and 2 paradise in a 55 ..no problems yet :)

[SC13NTIFIC]

I refuse to believe an opaline gourami at any size can be suported by a 1g tank. You are being cruel to the fish by keeping it in that small a tank.

I hope that 55g is coming really soon, for your fishes sake.


Glad to hear that you refuse to believe anything. Since the fish is doing incredibly well via regular water changes and a diet of bloodworms, shrimp pellets and flake food I can care less what you refuse to believe. If he gets too large for the one tank she will be transported to another tank. I hope your fears are assuaged as to my animal cruelty.

[RockabillyChick]

they're not. emerald cories reach up to 5 inches long, and opaline gouramis can reach 6-8 inches. a 1g tank does not provide enough space for them to move, nor does it provide enough water volume to dilute the nitrate produced by the nitrogen cycle processing their waste. please get your fish a bigger tank.

[mduros]

I refuse to believe an opaline gourami at any size can be suported by a 1g tank. You are being cruel to the fish by keeping it in that small a tank.

I hope that 55g is coming really soon, for your fishes sake.No kidding dorkfish. My opalines are still under a year old and they are something like 5 inches.

SC13NTIFIC if your fish is not outgrowing that tank it is stunted which means it will die prematurely from the improper development of it's organs during this time of it's life. It would do even better in the 10 gallon until you get your 55.
Take care,
Mary.

[Lorazoo]

you have dwarf honey gouramis? are honeys and dwarfs related? i had put upo a post, but no one responded :(. I have 3 male powder blues in a 120 and found femaile dwarfs at a lfs. i got 6 of them. however, whej i got home and was researching honey gouramis ( to see if i could get a couple of those) i saw that the female honeys had a stripe (the honeys were in the same tank at the lfs). i think i may have just gotten 6 female honeys. Does anyone know if the dwarf will accept them? are they all the same type of gourami?

[supgourami]

Well, theres two kinds of honey gouramis.


The honey dwarf gourami: http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?pCatId=992


Or the actual honey gourami:
http://freshaquarium.about.com/cs/anabantids2/p/hgoldgourami.htm


Either way, they are both different from the normal dwarf gouramis. The honey dwarf is closely related, but I'm not sure if they can breed together or whatever, and the honey gouramis are Colisa chuna The honey dwarfs are Colisa sota


While neon, flame, and powder blue dwarf gouramis are all Colisa lalia

[supgourami]

And yes, SC13NTIFIC the tank you have for your gourami is WAY WAY too small. It really is abusive. 1 gallon is hardly enough for any fish, especially for a gourami and 2 corys.


Sorry, but thats just wrong.

[bigougit]

I have 2 pearl gouramis, i'm waiting to name them till they get older and its easier to sex them, but they're my favorite of the fish I have in that tank and I love watching them manuver through all my decorations

[Lorazoo]

Well, theres two kinds of honey gouramis.


The honey dwarf gourami: http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?pCatId=992


Or the actual honey gourami:
http://freshaquarium.about.com/cs/anabantids2/p/hgoldgourami.htm


Either way, they are both different from the normal dwarf gouramis. The honey dwarf is closely related, but I'm not sure if they can breed together or whatever, and the honey gouramis are Colisa chuna The honey dwarfs are Colisa sota


While neon, flame, and powder blue dwarf gouramis are all Colisa lalia
Is it possible for neon dwarfs to have the stripe when they are really young. The store said they were female dwarfs. The other dwarfs they had in there were red and orange, maybe a sunset dwarf?

[Midas-n-Titus]

Blue gourami named Titus

Gold gourami named Midas

[supgourami]

No such thing as a sunset dwarf.

There is a red flame dwarf gourami which are very red.

How about you take some pictures of them and I can help you determine what they are?

[mduros]

No such thing as a sunset dwarf.

There is a red flame dwarf gourami which are very red.

How about you take some pictures of them and I can help you determine what they are?There is a sunset dwarf. I had two of them. They are a Colisa lalia variant.
Take care,
Mary.

[supgourami]

Sunset dwarfs are more often reffered to as Red Flame dwarfs, but they are the same thing.


You know what I mean.

[mduros]

Sunset dwarfs are more often reffered to as Red Flame dwarfs, but they are the same thing.


You know what I mean.But the person that was asking the question may not, and may be left confused especially if, as in my case the store has them labeled as sunsets and not flames. You should have just responded with the above before without me pointing out the inaccuracy of your previous response.

Lorazoo, as supgourami said, it would be easier to help you if you post some pictures. The problem with these dwarf gouramis is that they will and do interbreed, so you may get some hybrids depending on where you buy from and who their supplier is.

Here is a picture of my honey gourami, if that helps.

http://www.maryduros.com/fish/honeygourami.jpg

And here is a picture of one of my "sunset" dwarfs from a few months back. Unfortunately I lost them both in February due to a bacterial infection.
http://www.maryduros.com/fish/gourami6.jpg

Take care,
Mary.

[Lorazoo]

Yeah, They Looked Like Your Sunset Dwarf.
I Just Wanted To Know If The Male Powder Blue Dwarfs I Have Will Be Happy With The Females I Got Since They Might Be Dwarf Honey/sunset.
I Would Like To Get A Few Of The Sunset Males And Then Get Some More Of The Females Too, So Everyone Will Be Happy. That Would Be 5-6 Males And 12 Females In A 120 Heavily Planted.

Do You Think That Would Work?

[Rowangel]

Those are labeled ‘sunset dwarf gourami’s’ at our petsmart. Regardless of name, they are a beautiful fish!

I’ve had several gourami’s over my fish keeping experience and they are always a favorite, especially among guests.

[mduros]

I don't know from experience, but I would think in a 120 gallon you'll be fine. And everyone will be happy. Gouramis can get a bit aggressive. But for a time I had 2 opalines, 2 sunsets (flames) and 1 honey together in my 55 gallon. The opalines were the only ones that tended to get nippy, but that was only with each other.
Take care,
Mary.

[misopeenut]

i got this as golden honey dwarf gourami.
http://pds.exblog.jp/pds/1/200606/20/30/b0106730_6225053.jpg
his antenna like fins are bent but doesnt seem to bother the fish..

[mduros]

i got this as golden honey dwarf gourami.
http://pds.exblog.jp/pds/1/200606/20/30/b0106730_6225053.jpg
his antenna like fins are bent but doesnt seem to bother the fish..
What a Sweetheart! Is it really small? Looks like a young one.
Take care,
Mary.

[Rowangel]

heh, that is a cute picture...love the large, hopeful eyes!

[misopeenut]

ya its little less than an inch, i added 6 yellow platys and he think he's one of them so he likes to swim with them. haha

[khombre]

judging by the pics mduros posted, my gouramis are sunset dwarfs i think

well they think they are "one" with the swordtails in the tank and swim with them.. there are rare occassions when some of the male swordtails try to mate with them gouramis and they become really really angry and chase the male swordtails all over the entire tank whenever it happens lol :duh:

[Bagheera36]

I have had 3 powder blue dwarf males for over 6 months--not very long. Harry and Larry came from one LFS, Spike another (his dorsal fin is distorted--the front 1/3 spikes forward, the rest to the back). In a 10 all together, same time, I created areas for them so there would be no aggression. It worked, and the most they did was play "tailchase" with out physical attacks.
6 weeks ago Harry swelled up HUGE, with no pineconing, I researched and researched, asked and posted pix on some sites, to no avail. Used Maracyn 2, then prazi, along with even more water changes (I keep my tanks very clean, quite religious about it--it IS, after all, the foundation to their health).
Put him in a makeshift hospital tank, he stayed the same, so I decided to euthanize him. Internal organs must have swelled way beyond return, and he had no quality of life--although throughout the entire time, he swam, ate, acted normal in every way, as though he didn't look like he'd swallowed a giant grape. Didn't have the courage to do an autopsy. My little buddy.

Continued to treat the other 2 with prazi; quarantined Spike as he was swelling; I just euthanized him about 45 minutes ago. Larry had been doing well, still having healthy poops, etc., but last nite doing a wc, I notices some thin white thready stuff (he's in the hospital tank, 5g, now). Also a bit of swelling--I'm afraid I'm going to lose him, too. This is sad. I don't know how the parasites, if that's what it was, got in their tank--I had added some anacharis, and two mystery snails from PetSmart; my research said that snails don't carry parasites etc., but I'm not sure what research that is based upon.
So, I absolutely love gouramis; I had bettas for years, they are awesome, so I thought I'd try a relative. Don't know if I'll try them again; or maybe it's the dwarf variety that's more susceptible to disease. :huh:


I have a gold gourami that is swelled up significantly with no pineconing. There has been some slight behavior changes including not eating as much and a little more lethargic. I asked the LFS about this and I was told after describing the fins that "she" might be egg bound or possibly constipated. I have set up a hospital tank and added epson salt to the water, this I was told may help the situtation and if she is either of the above may help her out. I also intend to start feeding her dapnia or skinned peas which also may help. I havent seen any poop from her recently so I am hoping that it is one of the above. Both can be fatal but I would rather have that the the parasite problem you described. Sorry to hear about your loss and I hope the Larry survives. Good luck. :dive2:

My buddies:
2 Gold gouramis
2 Dwarf blue gouramis
1 Red gourami
1 Rainbow shark (not a trouble maker)
1 gold algae eater catfish
5 Pristella tetra