Inherited an unhealthy honey gourami

[BriLandy]

Hi everybody,

As I talked about in a previous post, I purchased a 65 gallon freshwater tank that had an established community. Long story short, it was very poorly stocked and a sweet little dwarf honey gourami got the brunt of the stress and aggression.

He/she has had their dorsal and antenna-like fins nipped almost completely off. I could barely recognize it as a gourami at first! The growth appears to have been stunted and she/he has two dark spots on its body.

I moved the gourami to my 10 gallon tank so that hopefully it will feel safer, and will be away from whatever fish were aggressive towards it. I don't know what the dark spots are though... is that a disease that he/she could pass on to my healthy fish in the tank?

 

[ktomminello]

Here's where I show my non alarmist side. Honey gourami are very small naturally often staying 2 inches or slightly less. Males will get a dark blue belly when spawning, females a brown stripe. Were there any other dwarf gourami in there?

 

[BriLandy]

There are no other gouramis in the tank, and that is good to know about the size. The spots definitely aren't stripes. I'll try to get a picture of the fish.

 

[BriLandy]

Black spot normal?