Opaline Gourami help... A.S.A.P.!!!!!!
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My Flame Gourami will eat blanched lettuce if I give it to him in small enough pieces for it to swallow whole, along with peas. I also get a knife or something and grind up part of an algae wafer into pretty small pieces and it likes those too. Other things in it's diet are bloodworms, flakes, shrimp pellets that I break into small bits, fruit flies(when I get a chance), and I even caught him eating a betta bio-gold pellet thing that my betta didn't find quick enough.
These are foods I accumulated and tried when I got a few extra bucks to pick up something new. I wouldn't go out and buy everything at once. Just get something every once in a while that is diff. and see how it likes it. It may not realize it is supposed to eat it at first, like my Gourami was with lettuce.
These are foods I accumulated and tried when I got a few extra bucks to pick up something new. I wouldn't go out and buy everything at once. Just get something every once in a while that is diff. and see how it likes it. It may not realize it is supposed to eat it at first, like my Gourami was with lettuce.
Recently, I caught him eating everything in its path. I turn off the filter when I feed them because it sucks up the food, and when he senses that, he immediately hurries to the surface. I caught him eating my Firemouth's sinking cichlid pellets! Lol!
ok... he's not being constipated anymore, but he poops at least 5 times a day! What's wrong with him? He seems healthy and eats normally... 
Gouramis do that, we had a blue male three spot that had a string of poo hangin out of him 24/7 I swear. It just got longer and longer, the next thing I knew there was another getting longer and longer and longer =)
don't be so paranoid, just vary the diet. Change the water regularily and you should be fine. But monitor the water quality, that's very important as well.
don't be so paranoid, just vary the diet. Change the water regularily and you should be fine. But monitor the water quality, that's very important as well.
Take a piece of leaf lettuce in a cup boil it in mic. simply put the hard stemlike part partiallly under gravel keep it there for at least a day, my blue gouramis just RIP IT UP pieces fly all over and the whole like 5-6 inch piece is only strings in less than a day then that is eaten and they nose in the gravel finding leftover bits. I also feed Nutrafin tropical fish food tetra bloodworms and they love to share sinking wafers with my corys
