Dwarf Golden Honey Gourami

[Katster]

ive baught 2 little 'dwarf golden honey gourami, they'd only be abount an inch each in length, there very pretty, but ive tried researching them onlike and nothing has come up aobut them, im sure there juvinile, but there colour at the moment is liek a yellowie whipped butter with orangey tips on there fins, there not the normal dwarf honey gourami colour, not grey at all. but if there is such a fish, how do i sex them? i asked the people where i baught them and they didnt know how to sex them either, so hopefully someone out there can help me

thanks from kat

 

[kimmers318]

Sounds like my honey gourami's, try just searching for that. The store may have been calling them dwarfs simply because they stay so small. Mine are a vibrant yellow with orange fins and what I think is the male regularly gets a blue/black tinge running all along underneath his body and bottom fins. There are some nice pics at aquahobby.com and peteducation.com.

 

[Saedcantas]

More yellow then either of these two?

The Honey gourami comes in various degrees of brightness and slightly different colours, the ones I think you may be talking about are usually called "Gold" or "Sunset" honey gouramis. Either way it will just be a colour difference, they are no different in care to ordinary honeys.

Take a look at this picture of my two

On the left is the male, made obvious by his longer pointed end on his dorsal fin and his body is narrower overall. The female on the right has a rounded end to her dorsal fin and a much deeper body, I hope this helps!

Lotte***

 

[Katster]

damn it, i think i may have 2 males, they both have the pointy top fin , they do touch each other a lot anddont seem to fight at all and there faces look a little squashed like that for the blue dwarfs, there not red in the body at all, liek the colour of butter, cremey, like your gravel the only red \ orange bits are the very ends of the fins and tail, i'd take a photo for you but its 12:10 am here and the hood light dosnt give me enough light to take a non blury photo thanks for your help

 

[Katster]

ok, i managed to get a photo of one of the little rascals, but my fish always end up looking sickly when i take photos of them, but this is the colour, you can get a fair idea
http://tk.files.storage.msn.com/x1pmAkndzHuOfcswsgcmdW8fq7lsj49KBcDGT6wb89O49Ifx0AV2LrV7c9Ci3ljJuUEH5oFEbmbwKCc9dytReQv0_umXV2lpXKoTm_1qrRCGeqNdaRpRWMbt2uIWQfvrwYkCXSU9607y1E

if you ca't get that to work just copy and paste into your brouser

 

[justask]

ok, i managed to get a photo of one of the little rascals, but my fish always end up looking sickly when i take photos of them, but this is the colour, you can get a fair idea
http://tk.files.storage.msn.com/x1pmAkndzHuOfcswsgcmdW8fq7lsj49KBcDGT6wb89O49Ifx0AV2LrV7c9Ci3ljJuUEH5oFEbmbwKCc9dytReQv0_umXV2lpXKoTm_1qrRCGeqNdaRpRWMbt2uIWQfvrwYkCXSU9607y1E

if you ca't get that to work just copy and paste into your brouser
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If they are yellowish, they are a colour form of the Honey Gourami (Colisa chuna "GOLD"). The red fish in the photo, are not actually Honey Gouramis, but in fact a colour form of the Thick Lip Gourami (Colisa labiosa) and they get quite a lot larger than the true Honeys.

 

[Katster]

umm, how big are we talking? i only have a 40l tank.

 

[Saedcantas]

If they are yellowish, they are a colour form of the Honey Gourami (Colisa chuna "GOLD"). The red fish in the photo, are not actually Honey Gouramis, but in fact a colour form of the Thick Lip Gourami (Colisa labiosa) and they get quite a lot larger than the true Honeys.

I assure you my two fish pictured above are red variant Honey Gouramis, Colisa chuna not Colisa labiosa They are definitely not growing to 4"/10cm. I have had them for around 6 months both from different suppliers and the female who is slightly larger has grown no bigger than 1.5" in that time. Even the red variant Thick lipped gouramis have some pretty notable side barring visible which mine do not have, a quick google image search shows the two are clearly unmistakeable

Katster, I have found a picture which I think sounds like your description;

As I previously stated this colour variant is known as "gold" or "sunset" and the care and eventual size is no different to that of wild coloured honey gouramis

Anyway, visit This website for a rough guide to their requirements and characteristics

 

[justask]

If they are yellowish, they are a colour form of the Honey Gourami (Colisa chuna "GOLD"). The red fish in the photo, are not actually Honey Gouramis, but in fact a colour form of the Thick Lip Gourami (Colisa labiosa) and they get quite a lot larger than the true Honeys.

I assure you my two fish pictured above are red variant Honey Gouramis, Colisa chuna not Colisa labiosa They are definitely not growing to 4"/10cm. I have had them for around 6 months both from different suppliers and the female who is slightly larger has grown no bigger than 1.5" in that time. Even the red variant Thick lipped gouramis have some pretty notable side barring visible which mine do not have, a quick google image search shows the two are clearly unmistakeable

Katster, I have found a picture which I think sounds like your description;

As I previously stated this colour variant is known as "gold" or "sunset" and the care and eventual size is no different to that of wild coloured honey gouramis

Anyway, visit This website for a rough guide to their requirements and characteristics

If they are yellowish, they are a colour form of the Honey Gourami (Colisa chuna "GOLD"). The red fish in the photo, are not actually Honey Gouramis, but in fact a colour form of the Thick Lip Gourami (Colisa labiosa) and they get quite a lot larger than the true Honeys.

I assure you my two fish pictured above are red variant Honey Gouramis, Colisa chuna not Colisa labiosa They are definitely not growing to 4"/10cm. I have had them for around 6 months both from different suppliers and the female who is slightly larger has grown no bigger than 1.5" in that time. Even the red variant Thick lipped gouramis have some pretty notable side barring visible which mine do not have, a quick google image search shows the two are clearly unmistakeable

Katster, I have found a picture which I think sounds like your description;

As I previously stated this colour variant is known as "gold" or "sunset" and the care and eventual size is no different to that of wild coloured honey gouramis

Anyway, visit This website for a rough guide to their requirements and characteristics

Those really red fellas deffinately aren't C.chuna. If they aren't C.labiosa, they will be a C.labiosa x C.lalia hybrid. C.chuna does not get such an elongated dorsal even in the most mature male. I've visited breeders that produce these fish in Thailand. The gold form is a true colour form of chuna, but the "red" form of C.chuna is not fixed and are produced by colour feeding the gold form. The red inevitably fades after a few months. If the red colour has remained in your fish, they are labiosa or labiosa x lalia hybrids... where the red has been fixed, although it is enhanced with colour feeding prior to shipping. You can achieve a similar effect with sustained use of commercial colour food, or Paprika.

 

[Katster]

yeah the golden fish in the picture is exactly what i have, good google search although they dont have as much red in the fins, i baught some colour enhancing food so we'll see if that helps, they both might just need to grow up a bit too thanks for all the whelp everyone

 

[Majjie]

I've had two pairs of honey gouramis for about a year now, one wild type and one gold. The gold ones haven't grown as large as the wild types, although the female is slightly larger than the male. She has a broken dark line down the centre of her body and the orange tips to her fins are much paler than the male. She chases him about a lot of the time.

The wild types are the same. The female is slightly larger with a broken stripe down her body - and she chases the male too.

The black colouration in the males varies from very strong to hardly visible - perhaps depending on how sexy they're feeling.