[Laki]

Yes I finally made it home. An hour or more out of the way but nonetheless. I would have found it more funny if I didn't have live fish with me! Acclimatising now.

 

[lilnaugrim]

:-D yay! Make sure you get pics too!! ;-)

 

[Laki]

 

[aussieJJDude]

Wow;
Aren't they cute! Congrats on the purchases.

 

[lilnaugrim]

Cuties! They look great ^_^

 

[Laki]

Thanks. Unfortunately, I think little red is going to die. This morning he has what appears to be scales or fuzz sticking off him and he's basically not moving his gills or feelers. He's just there.

But the wild honey is in full breeding colors and overnight has gone and decorated everything on the surface with tonnes of bubbles! So either, he's really happy about his environment or Yellow is a lady. I'll try to get a pic of him, he's stunning in color. Also, I take my pictures with my phone and upload them to my imgur app and they come out huge. I have no idea how to make them smaller.

 

[lilnaugrim]

Hard to tell from the pics, yellow might be a female.

 

[Laki]

They have been acting as if it is a female. I am slightly embarrassed to be witnessing this! Not really. Since they are doing nothing but swimming around I took some short videos :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP5HldKNOFc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7Pjkw5wbpw



Now, I don't know what to do about little red. he's moving around a little since I turned on the light but I'm not sure if he's in beginner dropsy or what's going on. He looked fine yesterday, just had some stringy poops.

 

[lilnaugrim]

Omg, I've missed Honey's so much! I love how they feel each other up lol!!
Idk, it's still kind of hard to tell because s/he's a little clamped which makes the dorsal more pointed.
A female will have a rounded dorsal and anal fin, normally duller color but with the selective breeding; it makes it hard to tell sometimes.

 

[Laki]

Yellow's dorsal is long but the very edge is round, so is red's. I'm going to do a water change. Red is shedding her slime coat, is not scales or fuzz. From what I'm reading, the slime coat shed is caused by stress and environment. Since she only started this last night, I'm thinking it's an adverse reaction to the meds. I'm going to remove her. Do you think I should add her back to the group for now while I figure something else out?

 

[lilnaugrim]

Keep Red in some water with just 1 tsp per 5 gallons in it. It's a good preventative measure to let her adjust.
Shedding slime coat is pretty normal for any stress; that includes going from the store and to your tank. Glad that's all it is though.

If it's rounded then it's female You likely won't see them breeding but they might since they're the only ones in the tank ^_^ You can remove the eggs if you don't want babies.

 

[Laki]

Aquarium salt you mean. I'll add some now the once. I just put her in a small just-tank water cup. She still has white stringy poops.


I wouldn't know the first thing about rearing tiny baby gouramis! I'm not ready for that commitment!Plus I don't have a spare everything to raise them in. Nor do I know where the heck to find infusoria and live brine.

 

[lilnaugrim]

lol! I just read what I wrote. Yes, I mean AQ salt water XD

The stringy poops is also from stress and is normal. I wouldn't worry about that.

And no worries, the Gouramis would'd touch them so much. You can just put the in a breeder box once they're free swimming. Infusoria is found naturally with live plants so if you've got them, you've got infusoria ;-) But as I said, you can take any any eggs if you don't want fry. I doubt they'll actually breed, but you never know.

 

[Laki]

Oh that would be fun! I did not know infusoria lived in live plants. I have the salvinia and the yellow keeps picking at the roots so maybe thats what she's eating? None of them seem to take a particular interest in the food I bought for them. I bought omega 1 micropellets and tetra flakes. Now I don't know what to buy next to try. I'll pop into the pet store next to the dr when I go later today.

Also, I'm super relieved you think it's just stress! So after a little salt bath I can add her back to the tank and she can get over her stress naturally like the male did?

 

[lilnaugrim]

Can you get any frozen foods? Mine generally liked those. The Daphnia and Brine shrimp.
But just give it time, they have to settle in first

And yep.

 

[Laki]

I need to send you a thank you card for helping me out with these fish! First it was choosing a gourami now it's this. You're the best.

I'll see if they have frozen foods today. I know frozen brine shrimp are the bee's knees. I think the store was feeding them bloodworms because all the betta cups had excess bloodworms (I think they put a full dropper of worms in each cup!) so I imagine they screwed up the diet of all the fish by feeding frozen. Not a problem really but now they're spoiled. Maybe i'll infuse the food with garlic later.

 

[lilnaugrim]

Oh haha, that's not necessary ^_^ I'm just happy that you're happy with the little ones and that they're all relatively healthy! But yes, just give them some time and they should start to eat the flakes and pellets soon as well.

 

[Xmega10]

I have a pair of opaline gourami fish and 1 female 3 spot blue gourami. I believe the male opaline gourami should use self-defense against tankmates like convicts and green severum cichlids.