so my gouramis had babies in september, and they're starting to get big enough where i'm considering them moving them from their 10g to one of my community tanks. there are 13 survivors (i kind of let nature take its course, no homes for 300 fish...). the problem is that there were 14 until last night.
i moved 3 of them to the tank their mother, a gold gourami, is in. i was worried about a couple large cats in there, but i became more worried when goldie started harassing the hell out of her babies. i put some extra plants and pvc tubes for the them to hide in, but when i woke up, i found two terrified baby gouramis, one a little injured, and one freshly killed corpse. the only things in the tank are two growing sun cats (which will get huge eventually, but if they kill something, for sure it goes in their mouths), a candystripe pleco, and the gold gourami. so the guilt is clearly with goldie. killed by his own mother, alas.
i'm guessing goldie has become antisocial as a result of being the only non bottom fish in this tank for a month. i had a male with her (hence the babies), but he died eerily a week after the babies were born after having been my oldest fish for quite a while. a female was kept with her but was quarrantined a month ago. argghhh...well this was partly a rant, but if you have suggestions on what i should do, please feel free to chide in! for now, i'm just keeping the 13 babies (the largest was the dead one, now the largest is between 1" and 1.5", but the smallest ones are half that) in a 10g until they're a little bigger. no where else to go!
i moved 3 of them to the tank their mother, a gold gourami, is in. i was worried about a couple large cats in there, but i became more worried when goldie started harassing the hell out of her babies. i put some extra plants and pvc tubes for the them to hide in, but when i woke up, i found two terrified baby gouramis, one a little injured, and one freshly killed corpse. the only things in the tank are two growing sun cats (which will get huge eventually, but if they kill something, for sure it goes in their mouths), a candystripe pleco, and the gold gourami. so the guilt is clearly with goldie. killed by his own mother, alas.
i'm guessing goldie has become antisocial as a result of being the only non bottom fish in this tank for a month. i had a male with her (hence the babies), but he died eerily a week after the babies were born after having been my oldest fish for quite a while. a female was kept with her but was quarrantined a month ago. argghhh...well this was partly a rant, but if you have suggestions on what i should do, please feel free to chide in! for now, i'm just keeping the 13 babies (the largest was the dead one, now the largest is between 1" and 1.5", but the smallest ones are half that) in a 10g until they're a little bigger. no where else to go!
