crazy gouramis

[MAM]

i never realized gouramis had such character. i have two gold and two opaline. well, this weekend when i was removing the juvie molly fry from the gourmai tank (they were starting to harass the gouramis and were finally big enough for the lfs to take so i evicted them). of course the all mighty evil net was in use. as i was collecting the babies one of my gouramis, and i didn't catch the culprit, spit water at me and hit me right in the eye!!!! the little sh*t .
i've also noticed that when i feed them, they make a clicking noise at the surface.
and my one gold has developed and unhealthy fixation with the thermometer and likes to "flick" it against the side of the tank.
crazy fish

 

[juliethegr8t]

Hahaha!! Omgosh! He has really good aim!! My dwarf gourami spits at me - isn't it a hilarious thing?! I almost fell over backwards the first time he did it!! Anyways, both of my dwarfs have obvious personalities too, I think it's a gourami thing too.

 

[Tenko]

I was getting a bit fed up with reattaching my thermometer to the tank 5 times a day. Every time I check on the tank it was floating around. I was going to buy a new one but caught my new gourami detaching it. He likes playing around it, swimming between it and the glass and nudging it around.

 

[Eleonora]

If it's a boy it might be trying to create a nest. I've noticed that mine make nests in any small area they can find. I didn't even realise that they wanted to nest until I put a fry net in my tank for my guppy fry, then came back the next day to find a bubble nest between the net and the glass of the tank. There would have been maybe a 1cm gap. He has been using this spot ever since. It's even quite amusing to watch him fill the gap with bits of plants.

 

[OscarCichlid]

Is there any certain way to make them do it. I have many gouramis and have had them for a while but never saw any of them spit. My Paradise Gourami does jump out of the water and grab food from my hand though..

 

[AmberC]

Thats too funny that it spit at you! Mine have never done anything like that, but when I stick my hand in the tank to fix a plant or something, they do rub against my hand I hope that means that they like me

 

[Tenko]

If it's a boy it might be trying to create a nest. I've noticed that mine make nests in any small area they can find.

If that's what he's doing, how can I arrange he tank to make it easier for him? Do you need a long, narrow gap for him or what? I have a pair of dwarf neon gouramis and a pair of dwarf red gouramis so would have to provide accommodation for them both.

 

[Colisa lalia]

To make a nest you need a quite sheltered space, and a ripe female in the tank doesn't jurt either.

 

[FanOFish]

I belive that I read gouramis can spit at food that may be flying over them in the wild. They hit the flying insect, it lands in the water and bon apitite!

 

[MAM]

I belive that I read gouramis can spit at food that may be flying over them in the wild. They hit the flying insect, it lands in the water and bon apitite!

guess i must have looked tasty that day

 

[noop]

my powder blue dwarf spits quite a lot, particularly if he's hungry and i'm cruelly holding some food just above his head!

he also jumps at the food in such situations...