Opaline Gourami

[lb05]

Wanted 2 show fellow gourami lovers my lovely Opaline Gourami "Bully" ...

That's all really!

 

[Miss Dib Dabs]

Awww beautiful. Am picking up two new gouramies tomorrow as I have a slight problem with one female to two males right now. Hope I find some a beautiful too.
Hugs,
P.

 

[lb05]

Awww beautiful. Am picking up two new gouramies tomorrow as I have a slight problem with one female to two males right now. Hope I find some a beautiful too.
Hugs,
P.

Hope u get the Gouramis u r looking 4

Had a problem 2 with having both males, but bought a 3-spot Gourami which made all ok until last wk, he passed away!!!

Was very weird showed no signs of being ill, levels where ok - but a betta had been in the tank 4 2 days on his way out - wasn't pets @ home gr8 4 selling him 2 us knowing what we had in the tank

...lucky I've learned a lot more since then - got 2 get us another Opaline/3-spot gourami.

What Gouramis r u getting?

 

[sylvia]

She's cute Opalines are my favourite three-spot color morph - with blues and lavenders a close second .

 

[Ethos]

reminds me of my female opaline.
nice pic

 

[lilmolly]

Aww, this makes me miss keeping gouramis. I don't have extra money for it. I use to have pearl gouramis and blue gouramis.

 

[lb05]

Thank u..

Sylvia you said "she's" cute, it's a boy - well @ least I thought so...???

Lil-Molly why did u stop having Gourami's? it's a shame, they r lovely!

 

[sylvia]

It's a girl Unless it's just a baby (which it doesn't look like), that fish is female. The most obvious way to tell is the dorsal fin, which, in males, is long and pointed - about double the length of the one on your fish. You can also see your fish is quite plump - again, characteristic of females. Though this particular difference is difficult to notice if you don't have a male to compare her to and pictures can be misleading. The opaline gourami pictured here is a male: http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=54992

 

[lb05]

It's a girl Unless it's just a baby (which it doesn't look like), that fish is female. The most obvious way to tell is the dorsal fin, which, in males, is long and pointed - about double the length of the one on your fish. You can also see your fish is quite plump - again, characteristic of females. Though this particular difference is difficult to notice if you don't have a male to compare her to and pictures can be misleading. The opaline gourami pictured here is a male: http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=54992

Far from a baby "she" is quite big!

Think this means I have 2 female gourami's...

With the one in the picture being more agressive than the other.

R two female Gourami's ok 2gether?

Did have 3 but one passed away guessing they were all females.

 

[sylvia]

Well, 60 litres is about 15 gallons which isn't realy large enough for even one opaline as they get to 5-6". Considering you have 5 gouramies in that tank, you need to upgrade ASAP or you may get very serious aggression issues. You are over-stocked anyway as mollies get quite big themselves and the zebra danio needs a 20 gallon minnimum and a lot of your fish are schooling fish that need to be in groups of 6 minnimum. 2 female opalines can live together ok in a large enough tank - though one will always harass the other to an extent - but it's usualy best to keep at least 4 females - all the same size - to reduce the chances of a single fish getting harassed. Having said that, you should allow for 10 gallons per opaline/three-spot (opalines are just a color morph of trichogaster trichopterus - which includes gold, cosby, platinum, blue and lavender gouramies) plus an extra 10 gallons for your 3 honeys. As such, you'd need about a 55 gallon for the 4 opalines + 3 honeys. For your 2 opalines and honeys that you have now, get at least a 30 gallon and make sure you fill it up with lots of hiding places so the fish lower down in the hierarchy can find a place to hide from the more aggressive dominant fish.

edit: Just noticed you are cycling a larger tank - your fish should be fine once you've moved them into there but make sure you do provide plenty of hiding places.

 

[lb05]

Well, 60 litres is about 15 gallons which isn't realy large enough for even one opaline as they get to 5-6". Considering you have 5 gouramies in that tank, you need to upgrade ASAP or you may get very serious aggression issues. You are over-stocked anyway as mollies get quite big themselves and the zebra danio needs a 20 gallon minnimum and a lot of your fish are schooling fish that need to be in groups of 6 minnimum. 2 female opalines can live together ok in a large enough tank - though one will always harass the other to an extent - but it's usualy best to keep at least 4 females - all the same size - to reduce the chances of a single fish getting harassed. Having said that, you should allow for 10 gallons per opaline/three-spot (opalines are just a color morph of trichogaster trichopterus - which includes gold, cosby, platinum, blue and lavender gouramies) plus an extra 10 gallons for your 3 honeys. As such, you'd need about a 55 gallon for the 4 opalines + 3 honeys. For your 2 opalines and honeys that you have now, get at least a 30 gallon and make sure you fill it up with lots of hiding places so the fish lower down in the hierarchy can find a place to hide from the more aggressive dominant fish.

edit: Just noticed you are cycling a larger tank - your fish should be fine once you've moved them into there but make sure you do provide plenty of hiding places.

Thanx I am not to clever with galons - is 180 litres ok for what we already have? ... will be moving the fish 2 that size tank shortly.

She doesnt seem as bad as she was b4 with the other opaline and they take no notice what so ever of the mollies...

So should be even better once we do the move.

 

[sylvia]

Yep, 180 litres is about 45 gallons, which is more than enough.

 

[lb05]

Yep, 180 litres is about 45 gallons, which is more than enough.

Good, good!

Got to keep the girlies happy

Considering I now know she is a female, she needs a new name!

Any ideas???

 

[sylvia]

Oh that's tricky. I tend to name only certain of my fish. Usualy it's because they remind me of something or are a particular character. I'm not going to attempt to name yours. I'm sure other people are much better than me at doing this. If you take a look at some of my fish and their names you'll understand why - they range from the less imaginative 'spot', 'stripe', 'silverfin', 'rip', 'torpedo', 'pearl' and 'kitty' etc to some down right random ones like 'pirhulina', 'retrospect', 'sibilance', 'panda leaf' etc. I then have relatively imaginative names such as 'pirate', 'rainstorm' or 'minibyte' and 'peppered orange' for 2 platies (yellow mickey mouse and orange calico respectively) or 'banner' and 'flag' for some black phantom tetras. And then there's certain fish I've named in pairs - eg: 'mass' and 'spectrometer' (seriously). You get the idea - I'm not the person to ask when it comes to naming fish I probably would have kept her male name actualy.

 

[lb05]

I dunno, Bully seems a lil harsh but when we 1st got the 2 of them that's exactly what she was!!!

Maybe I'll post in Tropical Chat and get me some ideas.

Could call her OPALfruit!

Hey, slightly more imaginative than my dalmation mollie called "molly" lol

You have some gd names there