Poor Guppy

[criesofthepast_xx]

I have had my guppies in my community tank for over 6 months with my 8 red eye tetras, 1 golden gourami, 1 opaline gourami, 1 pearl gourami and 2 khuli loaches. They have all gotten along until now my guppies started getting attacked and 4 of them died from thier fins being completely bit off . This never happened before why this sudden outburst of anger ?
who is attacking my guppies ?

 

[kribensis12]

The gouramis are probably the problem and you are not supposed to have more than one a t a time. How big is your tank?

 

[Rhiannon]

I have a male dwarf gourami and guppies in the same tank. One of my guppies has very very fancy long flowing fins and he pays no attention to them what so ever.

 

[criesofthepast_xx]

my tank is a 30 gallon. Isn't it ok to have 2 females to 1 male thats what some other people on this forum told me ?

 

[mnbyiuopre]

I also have a male dwarf gourami and guppies with very long tails. He doesn't pay attention to them. Sometimes they'll swim right up to him and he won't even budge. Maybeit's that yours are more aggressive. Also, you shouldn't have all of those Gourami unless they are females with one male.

 

[criesofthepast_xx]

yeah they are 2 females to a male
I am worried for my guppies i dont have an extra tank to put them in should i start putting melafix in the tank for thier fins to grow back?

 

[sylvia]

Dwarf gouramies are in no way comparable to three-spots (gold and opaline being color morphs of this species).
You have two of these - you should really have more to spread out the aggression as they'll probably become aggressive towards each other in time as well. Not to mention that, without many others, they are not distracted from their smaller tankmates and that's why your guppies are in danger.

Note that I'm not blaming the pearl but it could also be repsonsible. Pearls are considerably mroe peaceful than three-spots but males can be nasty sometimes.

Which ones are male and which female?

As you don't have room for more, I'd stongly reccomend you return the three-spots to your LFS and buy two more female pearl gouramies (or a male and female if the pearl you have already is female).

 

[criesofthepast_xx]

my golden and pearl are females im thinking about returning them tomorrow i am so sad my poor guppys being half eaten

 

[sylvia]

Then return the gold and opaline.

Keep the female pearl and get yourself another male pearl and female pearl about the same size as your existing one.

BTW, then, it is your opaline male that is almost definitely responsible.