Anyone have Gourami experience, I need some advice

[guppygal]

I would be really careful when purchasing gouramis from Petsmart. We just just lost an entire tank full of opalines and another tank of PB's to dropsy. It may have just been a bad batch, but I'm pretty sure that Petsmart gets all its fish from the same source, so be on the look out for sick gouramis. I heard we also had the same problem with tiger barbs awhile back.

GREEEAAAATTT!

Is that contagious? I guess I'll need to look up symptoms so I can be on the look out :rant2:

 

[sophiecat22]

http://www.thetropicaltank.co.uk/hddropsy.htm

 

[yourchoice]

nothing to worry about.when mine move slowly they can be tilted up.1-1.5inches is the smallest i have ever seen in a petstore.