From the article: Blue Gourami
Have you kept Blue Gouramis? If so, share your experiences about care, habitat, feeding and breeding of Blue Gouramis. Share Your Experiences
blue gouramis_ To Fishmamma
- I dont know how old this response is or if you will return to read this. Anyway! You should resurch about any tropical fish befor buying them. I have found that any so-called gouramie does better in a netural PH (7.) to 6.0 or so. A few points in either way is fine as long as the change is s l o w. Soft water is good maybe with a little peat extract added. I have had very good luck using rain water to soften the aquarium water. Let it rain for awhile befor collecting it so the nitrates and other junk is washed from the sky first. Our water is almost liquid limestone so I use a lot of rainwater. I change about 10% of aquarium water a week. If you have a true pair in breeding condition, nice fat female and sassy bubble blowing male by all means try spawinging them. Use a tank as large as you can spare, tho I have used a 10 gl with good results but not too many babies. Change anywher from 30 to 50 % of the water and bring the temp up about 5 degrees from what ever it is at the time.
- —Dantar
blue gouramis
- I had what I thought was a blue gourami, but it was not - just what they call "dwarf". So I got a couple of blues to go with it, thinking they were all the same. Within a week I lost the one of the blues. Then the dwarf that I started with died too. I thought it was because his buddy died. Now a few months later, my last blue gourami is dead. I have had a tank problem of some kind, asI also lost 2 loaches within this same time, as well as two balloon mollies. We had a heat wave, and that was hard on them. CAn they get stressed and not recover from that? All my levels seem fine except ph which is hovering around 7.6 despite cleaning and water changes. I bought a ph adjuster but it doesn't work. Can anybody shed some light on this?
- —freshmomma
blue gourami breeding
- I have a male and female that I would like to breed if possible. I've placed them in a tank of their own with pots and plants for the female to hide if need be and two plastic pots floating on the surface for the bubble nest. The female was added first and then several hours later I put the male in. any hints or advice anyone can give me on breeding these successfully would be appreciated. I've also been feeding freeze-dried bloodworm and daphnia along with flake and pellet food is this ok?
- —Guest Val
fishy
- I bought to gouramis several years ago and one died within a short time. The other has lived for several years (don't remember just how many, but more that five I'm sure) and is now about 4+ inches long. One morning about two months ago, when I fed them, I saw that exactly half of his face had become almost black. Then one day last week he stayed nose down at the back of the tank for three days but since has come out and seems fine. Today, when i turned the light on, his whole face is blac and his dark spots are also much darker. Does anywone know what this is all about?
- —Guest john
Good Fish
- I picked up three Blue Gouramis to be my starting fish a few weeks ago. I picked them simply because I liked the way they looked, but now I'm glad I got them because they seem to have more personality than the fish in my smaller tank. As much as I like them now though, I don't think I'll get anymore for my 30 gal tank. They do seem to need their personal space. I'll just have to settle with adding a couple different fish in the future. As for color, it is very interesting when you find they've change overnight. Hence why I'm on the computer now, for the DARK blue explaination. Thanks by the way. I was worried they might be stressed, but just found out two are getting frisky already. Anyway, good fish to have.
- —Guest Tom
One of my favorites
- We had several of these in our aquarium adventures (can't wait to set up again). All of the gouramis are pretty.
- —TreesandShrubs
