Flaming gourami
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wilkieam
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Beautiful gourami! My LFS didn't have any flame dwarfs when I purchased my DG, but I love him anyway!
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BlazedSaint
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Lol that's ironic I went in wanting just a plain DG and all they had was this one flaming and no plain DG
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BlazedSaint
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But this is an amazing looking fish so I'm happy it happened that way
wilkieam
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That is pretty ironic! But I wouldn't change a thing, I love Fabio (my DG) so much! He's a great little guy, lots of personality.
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BlazedSaint
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indeed my gourami is kind of boring, but i have a snail outbreak due to new plants, and my the gourami is have a feeding frenzy at the snails expense lol, and got 3 neon swordtails today as well and they have tons of personality : ) they are very fun to watch
brennae
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Very pretty fish!
bettaowner
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Beautiful gourami. I've only kept the powder blue variant
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BlazedSaint
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Ty Ty I'm very proud of this fish : ) and its a snail hunter I've seen a rapid decrease in snails over night and there are a few empty snail shells floating around, very awesome
wilkieam
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Woke up to find my DG dead this morning... :'(
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BlazedSaint
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Thats terrible I'm very sorry to hear that : ( sucks to lose any fish but definatly one like a gourami
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Fishninja
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BlazedSaint
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Nice! Do u know if yours is a male or female, you're looks just like mine
Fishdude3233
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Both are males females are basically all silver
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BlazedSaint
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Right on thanks : )
Fishninja
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I don't know I have two and that one has a point in its like yours and my other one doesn't have that.
Fishfur
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Female dwarf gourami do not have much colour. Most are very dull, pale brown. Some of the powder blues have a bit of blue on them, but not nearly so much as males do.
The posted pic is male, no question. Many fish stores don't even sell females, because they are not as pretty and thus do not sell nearly as well as the boys do.
Sudden death in these fish, or a quick dwindling away, is, sadly, very, very commonplace. I no longer try to keep them, I got discouraged at the many deaths.
They are basically quite shy, need heavy plant cover both planted and floating, and to break up sight lines if there is more than one of them. No bright light, if there is not a lot of floating plant cover to shade them. They dislike much current in their water, and are generally just not easy to keep alive for very long. It is really too bad, they are so lovely, and I truly find them beautiful.
The posted pic is male, no question. Many fish stores don't even sell females, because they are not as pretty and thus do not sell nearly as well as the boys do.
Sudden death in these fish, or a quick dwindling away, is, sadly, very, very commonplace. I no longer try to keep them, I got discouraged at the many deaths.
They are basically quite shy, need heavy plant cover both planted and floating, and to break up sight lines if there is more than one of them. No bright light, if there is not a lot of floating plant cover to shade them. They dislike much current in their water, and are generally just not easy to keep alive for very long. It is really too bad, they are so lovely, and I truly find them beautiful.
