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ryancohen8 Small Fry Posts: 10 Kudos: 2 Votes: 0 Registered: 14-Jul-2004	i have 3 gouramis in my tank. Two are blue and the other is orange. For a couple of week, the orange gourami was chasing the blue one. Now, one of the blue gouramis has tottally blown up in size. Its doubled in size and looks pregnannt. The other gourami, seems to have grown a little on its left side. I seperated the blue gourami that looks pregnant because i was told if it was pregnant, i must seperate them so the babies or eggs arent eaten. Did i do the right thing? What am i supposed to do??????????????
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:48
agent_alice Hobbyist Posts: 114 Kudos: 115 Votes: 0 Registered: 11-Jul-2004	i have the same question. I have two gold gouramis, and according to the pet store guy, it is likely that one is male and one is female. I noticed that one of the gold ones chases the other now, but doesn't pay any attention to other fish, including other varieties of gouramis, could that be mating behavior?
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:48
castlequest Fish Addict Posts: 661 Votes: 0 Registered: 15-Feb-2003	gouramis cannot get pregnant, theyre egg layers if you have any current in your water you probably wont have to worry about them mating as it will destroy the bubblenest she could be full of eggs or just a bit bloated you could try feeding her a pea(as you would a betta) gouramis generally dont like others of their own species and chase eachother around a lot
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:48
ryancohen8 Small Fry Posts: 10 Kudos: 2 Votes: 0 Registered: 14-Jul-2004	but its huge!!!!!!!!!!its at least double its normal size and this all happened in like a week while i was gone on vacation....i dont want the eggs to be destroyed. I have alagea eaters in my tank tooo. Wat should i do so in case it is having eggs, they stay alive?
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:48
castlequest Fish Addict Posts: 661 Votes: 0 Registered: 15-Feb-2003	if it's alone theres no chance of the eggs being fertilized anyway so you cant do anything about it if it's really huge I'd think theres something wrong with it
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:48
ryancohen8 Small Fry Posts: 10 Kudos: 2 Votes: 0 Registered: 14-Jul-2004	i put all the fish back together again. I think my other gourami has eggs too. Its side has blown up, but not nearly as much as the other ones. If it does have eggs and i want baby gouramis...what should i do. Shouldi take out the algae eaters? When should i ever seperate the female from the male? And whats a bubble nest?
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:48
karfixer Big Fish Posts: 435 Votes: 1 Registered: 10-Mar-2002	Male Gouramais have elongated dorsal and anal fins and are generally slimmer, females tend to be more rounded behind the gills and the dorsal and anal fins are rounded off and shorter. What you have going on does not sound like normal. Here are some girls. [span class="edited"][Edited by karfixer 2004-07-15 21:00][/span] karfixer attached this image: [img]http://www.fishprofiles.net/attachments/397289.jpg"]
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:48
karfixer Big Fish Posts: 435 Votes: 1 Registered: 10-Mar-2002	Here is one of the boys [span class="edited"][Edited by karfixer 2004-07-15 21:06][/span] karfixer attached this image: [img]http://www.fishprofiles.net/attachments/397292.jpg"]
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:48
FMZ Enthusiast Posts: 271 Kudos: 503 Votes: 5 Registered: 30-Jul-2002	Can't see the boys pictures
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:48
karfixer Big Fish Posts: 435 Votes: 1 Registered: 10-Mar-2002	The males will build a bubblenest and after the spawning will agressively guard the nest and fry. Some floating plants are very helpful to give him a place to build his nest. The fry are tiny, so feeding them first requires some liquifry, then baby brine shrimp and ground up flake food. Aquaricare has flake food for young fish, I raised some of my Gold Gouramis on a mix of this and frozen foods. HTH Steve
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:48
ryancohen8 Small Fry Posts: 10 Kudos: 2 Votes: 0 Registered: 14-Jul-2004	Do you know of any fish diseases that will make the fish look 3 times fatter in just a week?...
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:48
karfixer Big Fish Posts: 435 Votes: 1 Registered: 10-Mar-2002	I had a Betta that had a bloating condition/disease that after a month or so caused me to have to put him down I tried different melafix/pimafix,salt and various antibiotics-not at the same time- to no avail. Witholding food didn't work too well, as he would eat the Asian Ambulia in the tank.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:48


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