help with dwarf gourami's will they nest without a female????

[VWVR6Love]

i recently bought a 29 gallon tank. i just recently put two dwarf metallic blue gourami's in along with some neon and glo-light tetra's.
i installed some Java fern and java moss. along with some compacta Sword shoots.

right after i put the plants in there, the two gourami's started to act kinda wierd. one began burrowing a pit in the java moss. and right now it is going to the top of the aquarium and gathering air and blowing bubbles into the moss.

they are supposedly both males and they are close to the same color too. but is there any reason why one of the gourami's would be building a nest if there are two males in the tank and no females???

thanks for any help!!! L.J.

 

[Liz]

Well considering bettas and my paradise gourami build nests alone, I don't think it's abnormal.

 

[perfection]

solo nesting

In nature these fish live and breed in 6 inches to a foot of water attaching bubble nests to floating vegitation .They usually gather in small numbers.They build nests about three feetor so apart and try to outflash each other and atract females.Chances are your other male will build a nest at the other end of the tank room permting.

 

[VWVR6Love]

thats makes sense!! thanks for the info!! :idea: