happy happy!

[RockabillyChick]

my cycle finished the other night. after screwing it up with using the biospira totally wrong and having it stall and everything else, i finally got it back on track and it finished!

so i got 4 glowlight tetras and i threw in that apple snail i rescued from freezing to death in my parents pond.

and then i was still debating what kind of gourami i wanted. i was between a blue neon dwarf, and a honey.

i needed to see a honey gourami, since i couldnt seem to find any good pictures and i wanted to see one in person to decide. only one store had them though. so i went to look and they were all dull brown with a dark stripe down the side.

but for some reason, i just fell in love with them. they were so timid and shy, and i sat there staring at them for like half an hour. i finally got one.

he was just absolutely freaking out when i put him in, and even now, the next day, he runs and hides in the corner if anyone moves near the tank, but he's been venturing out and is even eating anything that the glowlights miss.

even though he's just blah brown, i just think he's so cute! and he's real young still, so i know he'll brighten up when he gets older. i'm already even starting to notice a pink tinge to him. he's a red honey, btw.

 

[Emg]

Could he be a chocolate gourami ??

http://www.fishdeals.com/anabantids/gourami/chocolate_gourami/

 

[RockabillyChick]

no, he looks like this. this picture is of either a female honey gourami, or a very young male who hasnt come into his breeding colors

http://www.****************/images_01/honey_gourami_001_w270.jpg

 

[patoloco]

Gouramies have their charm. My fist two gouramies were bought as feeder fish for my rays. One became snack and the other kept growing. This one was really small (about 3/4") when bought and now became the largets gourami in my tank. She is a female blue gourami , and is almost 3.5" long.

After realizing how beautiful she was, I added a male. Then, came home with a pair of pearl gouramies. About a week later, 2 more: a pair of 3-spot ones.

Finally, a pair of paradise fish (I think both are males). They are always hanging out togheter and swim in circles around each other displaying their magnificient tails.

Sadly, I lost the male pearl gourami about 4 days ago. He refused to eat and nothing I did make him chenge his mind. Now he is in the fishy heaven.

To end, your gouramies might be a little shy in the beggining, but will soon come out an swim freely. If you can give'em some long leaved or floating plants, they will surely thank you. And prepare for a feeding frenzy: gouramies are PIGS when there is food in the tank. :cool2:

 

[morextremist]

my brothers tank lost 5-6 gallons due to evaporation and refuses to put more water in because "it will ruin the cycle" ok dude, enjoy that perfect cycle when you have 20 gallons in your 55 gallon tank :\

 

[Ghost_knife]

I have several types and color of gourami including 1 small honey gourami, they are an extreemly beautiful fish, they will eat themselves to death, good luck though, I like the chocolate gourami, it's in my avatar, I think it's the smallest of all gourami and quite tichy to take care of but I still want one

 

[TetraBotia]

my brothers tank lost 5-6 gallons due to evaporation and refuses to put more water in because "it will ruin the cycle" ok dude, enjoy that perfect cycle when you have 20 gallons in your 55 gallon tank :\

Any tank that has lost 5-6 gallons due to evaporation probably is well past cycling, unless it is in really extreme conditions...
You should tell him adding water will do nearly nothing to his cycle, as long as he treats the tap water for all chlorine and ammonia...

 

[TetraBotia]

I have several types and color of gourami including 1 small honey gourami, they are an extreemly beautiful fish, they will eat themselves to death, good luck though, I like the chocolate gourami, it's in my avatar, I think it's the smallest of all gourami and quite tichy to take care of but I still want one

I have two chocolate dwarfs... and they are just flat out cool. I am going to get more.

 

[TetraBotia]

and i threw in that apple snail i rescued from freezing to death in my parents pond.

I don't know how big your tank is, but the smaller it is, the more you want to pay attention to this... watch that apple snail. Should it die out of sight, and you don't notice it is gone, it's decaying body could wipe out a lot of fish with a nasty ammonia spike.

 

[RockabillyChick]

i may have to remove him anyway, he's just been floating in a corner for weeks now. he's not dead, he regularly sticks out his siphon and breathes or opens his shell and hangs out, but i dont know what he's up to......