FishCrazyBenBOMB
Aquarium Advice Addict
Hello AA members, long time no see.
(Backstory, you can skip this if you want haha)
I use to be a very active member of this forum and many others years ago. I just recently got back into the aquarium game.
I came back to the hobby to breed neo shrimp like I have in the past, but this time do it much better.
So I knew I needed to a feeder tank to begin with to help jump start my other tanks. I took the slow process of cycling a tank from scratch and now have a decent looking 20G long community tank with 2 dwarf sunset/honey dew gouramis(a 3rd added today, reason for post), 2 golden killifish, 2 red nose tetras, 4 Orange von rio tetras, and I added 3 otos today to help with algae.
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So the reason for the post. I purchased these two sunset gouramis originally and I just happened to get a male and female. They have been breeding the last week or so and actually spotted a pepper spec sized fry today. I have second tank ready for my neo shrimp breeding, but weather has been too cold to ship so I have a spare tank just sitting there. I figured while I wait I could raise some gourami babies.
At the same time I worried the female would get harassed too much by the male and I was really wanting to get another female to lighten the load. Since its too cold to order for sure females i went to my only local fish store. The worker had no knowledge for fish (mistaken otos for plecos when I asked for them), so I had to go off the best of my own knowledge I've learn from research online. I have no previous experience with breeding gouramis.
I've brought the 3rd gourami home today and I've noticed my female gourami heavily harrasing the new gourami I have just introduced. I have even noticed my female attempting to do her breeding dance with the new gourami. Does this mean the new gourami I picked is a male? Will females attempt to mate with other females?
The shop said I could bring it back if I find out it's a male. I just need some opinions on how you guys might move forward in this situation with what I'm attempting. I'm a little stumped and would love some experienced advice!
Thanks for hearing me out, I've been feeling great getting back into the hobby. I absolutely love it and missed it a ton.
Ben
(Backstory, you can skip this if you want haha)
I use to be a very active member of this forum and many others years ago. I just recently got back into the aquarium game.
I came back to the hobby to breed neo shrimp like I have in the past, but this time do it much better.
So I knew I needed to a feeder tank to begin with to help jump start my other tanks. I took the slow process of cycling a tank from scratch and now have a decent looking 20G long community tank with 2 dwarf sunset/honey dew gouramis(a 3rd added today, reason for post), 2 golden killifish, 2 red nose tetras, 4 Orange von rio tetras, and I added 3 otos today to help with algae.
(You can skip to here )
So the reason for the post. I purchased these two sunset gouramis originally and I just happened to get a male and female. They have been breeding the last week or so and actually spotted a pepper spec sized fry today. I have second tank ready for my neo shrimp breeding, but weather has been too cold to ship so I have a spare tank just sitting there. I figured while I wait I could raise some gourami babies.
At the same time I worried the female would get harassed too much by the male and I was really wanting to get another female to lighten the load. Since its too cold to order for sure females i went to my only local fish store. The worker had no knowledge for fish (mistaken otos for plecos when I asked for them), so I had to go off the best of my own knowledge I've learn from research online. I have no previous experience with breeding gouramis.
I've brought the 3rd gourami home today and I've noticed my female gourami heavily harrasing the new gourami I have just introduced. I have even noticed my female attempting to do her breeding dance with the new gourami. Does this mean the new gourami I picked is a male? Will females attempt to mate with other females?
The shop said I could bring it back if I find out it's a male. I just need some opinions on how you guys might move forward in this situation with what I'm attempting. I'm a little stumped and would love some experienced advice!
Thanks for hearing me out, I've been feeling great getting back into the hobby. I absolutely love it and missed it a ton.
Ben