So like most fish keepers, I watch my fish during feeding to make sure everyone is eating and to do a count to make sure everyone is alive and swimming :0) Well in the last 5 days or so, I've noticed that my female gold gourami, Aphrodite, has not been eating. She makes no effort to get food, it can be right in front of her, and she just watches it.
She has no signs of ich, dropsy, any illness that I know of/heard of. She acts normal, swims around gracefully, occasionally chases the blue gouramis around a bit, but nothing serious. She will sit at the bottom more then the other gouramis, but she also is older, at least 4", the other 4 are 3" and under. (Don't worry, if I have any aggression issues down the road, the trio of blues will find a new home or I'll get another tank
) Everyone else has been eating just fine, the water params are
Nitrite- 0ppm, Nitrate- ~35ppm, Ammonia- 0ppm. I do pretty good on water changes, I change 50% every 2-3 days
She isn't getting harassed or chased by the other fish, and I've tried frozen bloodworms, frozen brine shrimp, zuchinni (my other gouramis LOVE this!) tetra color pellet/disk things, and recently ordered some Cobalt blue flakes in the mail. I was feeding twice a day (only as much as they ate in 2-3 min) but then switched to once a day thinking maybe I was feeding too much, and no signs of changes.
She's certainly NOT shy, she won't dart off when I come up to the glass, so it's not that she is scared either.
I have a 10 gallon qt/hospital tank I could move her too, but I don't want to stress her out any and also wanted to use the tank to qt some more glofish and cories so I can get my schools to proper numbers.
Any advice?
I know I am a little overstocked, but for now some are still growing, here's my stocking
-3 blue gouramis (2 f, 1 m)
-2 gold gouramis (2 f)
-1 albino rainbow shark (craigslist rescue, about 3")
-2 male guppies
-4 harlequin rasboras
-1 glofish
-1 blue tetra
-1 albino cory
-1 peppered cory
-2 striped kuhlis, 1 black kuhli
-6 baby synodontis petricola catfish
{I'm getting 4 more cories (2 peppered, 2 albino), 2 more harlequins, 5 more blue tetras, 5 more glofish, 1 or 2 more kuhlis, and possibly 1 more male guppy. That way everyone is in better schools. (The rainbow shark and 3 blue gouramis will probably be moved when older)
She has no signs of ich, dropsy, any illness that I know of/heard of. She acts normal, swims around gracefully, occasionally chases the blue gouramis around a bit, but nothing serious. She will sit at the bottom more then the other gouramis, but she also is older, at least 4", the other 4 are 3" and under. (Don't worry, if I have any aggression issues down the road, the trio of blues will find a new home or I'll get another tank
) Everyone else has been eating just fine, the water params areNitrite- 0ppm, Nitrate- ~35ppm, Ammonia- 0ppm. I do pretty good on water changes, I change 50% every 2-3 days
She isn't getting harassed or chased by the other fish, and I've tried frozen bloodworms, frozen brine shrimp, zuchinni (my other gouramis LOVE this!) tetra color pellet/disk things, and recently ordered some Cobalt blue flakes in the mail. I was feeding twice a day (only as much as they ate in 2-3 min) but then switched to once a day thinking maybe I was feeding too much, and no signs of changes.
She's certainly NOT shy, she won't dart off when I come up to the glass, so it's not that she is scared either.
I have a 10 gallon qt/hospital tank I could move her too, but I don't want to stress her out any and also wanted to use the tank to qt some more glofish and cories so I can get my schools to proper numbers.
Any advice?
I know I am a little overstocked, but for now some are still growing, here's my stocking
-3 blue gouramis (2 f, 1 m)
-2 gold gouramis (2 f)
-1 albino rainbow shark (craigslist rescue, about 3")
-2 male guppies
-4 harlequin rasboras
-1 glofish
-1 blue tetra
-1 albino cory
-1 peppered cory
-2 striped kuhlis, 1 black kuhli
-6 baby synodontis petricola catfish
{I'm getting 4 more cories (2 peppered, 2 albino), 2 more harlequins, 5 more blue tetras, 5 more glofish, 1 or 2 more kuhlis, and possibly 1 more male guppy. That way everyone is in better schools. (The rainbow shark and 3 blue gouramis will probably be moved when older)
