nikki
Aquarium Advice Regular
Hello,
I posted this some time ago in general discussion but had only one reply...
I've had some problems for three weeks now first with my female dwarf gourami (colisa lalia). Her behaviour changed, she started to hide and to be very shy, which she wasn't all. I thought she was bothered by her male so I separated them, it didn't help. I was told something may be wrong in the water, the parameters were okay, though and at my fish club they advised me to make a water change of half the volume and to add salt in the new water. I did it. She was better. After a few days, I reintroduced her male and slowly she went back to her 'shy' behaviour. She hid and hardly ate. You advised me both in this forum and at my fish club to add another female, but yesterday the male started to hide, too. I added 2 young females but they didn't care. They went on both hiding and hardly eating.
After 5 days, I found the 2 new females dead. They started hiding the night before and were dead next day. I didn't notice any other symptom.
Now the couple eats a little bit but still has the same "shy" behaviour..
Has anyone got any ideas on what's going on?
I posted this some time ago in general discussion but had only one reply...
I've had some problems for three weeks now first with my female dwarf gourami (colisa lalia). Her behaviour changed, she started to hide and to be very shy, which she wasn't all. I thought she was bothered by her male so I separated them, it didn't help. I was told something may be wrong in the water, the parameters were okay, though and at my fish club they advised me to make a water change of half the volume and to add salt in the new water. I did it. She was better. After a few days, I reintroduced her male and slowly she went back to her 'shy' behaviour. She hid and hardly ate. You advised me both in this forum and at my fish club to add another female, but yesterday the male started to hide, too. I added 2 young females but they didn't care. They went on both hiding and hardly eating.
After 5 days, I found the 2 new females dead. They started hiding the night before and were dead next day. I didn't notice any other symptom.
Now the couple eats a little bit but still has the same "shy" behaviour..
Has anyone got any ideas on what's going on?