Gourami scaring me(again)

[UnknownFishies]

This time it’s a blue powder gourami that’s scaring me. It’s looking down and swimming like that. Then another fish comes up and it returns to normal. What is going on? Is this breeding behavior? I have noticed bubble nests. Levels are all normal. I’ll get pics when it does it again.

 

[UnknownFishies]

Best picture I can get for now

 

[Utar]

Fish and other living things in my aquarium do at times show strange behavior. I have a mystery snail that from time to time plays dead. It sets upside down on the back of its shell for a short period of time then turns itself over and takes off crawling. It did this just a few minutes ago, but now is crawling up the glass.

 

[UnknownFishies]

Another pic. I also noticed that it happens when the other gouramis go after him.

 

[PheonixKingZ]

Very interesting... it’s not spinning or going upside down is it?

 

[UnknownFishies]

Very interesting... it’s not spinning or going upside down is it?

No i haven’t seen it doing that.

 

[Sgooosh]

when i just read the title of this thread, i thought it was some scary gourami fish that looked very scary lol

probably just weird behavior,
one time one of my guppies spazmed out and she zipped around the whole 75g in less than a second and got stuck under a filter,
when i saved her, back to normal..

 

[UnknownFishies]

Update: Found my dead black skirt. I removed it immediately and am gonna check the water tomorrow. I would be doing it tonight but my mom is making me go to bed.

 

[OliveFish05]

Update: Found my dead black skirt. I removed it immediately and am gonna check the water tomorrow. I would be doing it tonight but my mom is making me go to bed.

Oh no! At least you found it. I am sorry That does not seem like normal behavior, but unfortunately I don’t know anything about gourami’s so I can’t be much help, but I hope you figure it out!

 

[itiwhetu]

He looks stressed to me.

 

[Dajuyu]

Fish and their behavior when stress ...

 

[Sgooosh]

He looks stressed to me.

Fish and their behavior when stress ...

yep, definitely some weird stress behavior

 

[Slaphppy7]

Clenched tail fin, definitely stress (from disease/parasites/bullying) and/or poor water conditions

 

[UnknownFishies]

Clenched tail fin, definitely stress (from disease/parasites/bullying) and/or poor water conditions

It’s probably bullying. I have a really bad stock and am working on trying to fix it.