Fluffypants

I haven't had much luck with gouramis either. Dwarf blue pair died within days, one from dropsy and the other terrorised by a female betta. Same problem with dwarf honey gouramis. Here one day, dead the next with no sign of illness. They seem really fragile so I'm not planning to try (buy) any more...I give up

FP Senior here.... Here's a pic of both girls, both sporting shredded fins after their encounters with the male. He's in a worse state than them though. Pretty certain they are both female as they've both had big bellies at different times. The red finned one is responsible for the eggs. She is now out of the male's tank but the females are no longer getting on. Hope the pic comes out okay Thanks for all the helpful advice given to FP Jnr...she's rapt she's about to be a 'grandma'

Success! we have eggs i wasn't home but in 20 minutes there was about 30 eggs. what do i do next? How many eggs should i expect? FP junior

Having good progress and pics will be up shortly. The breeding has almost begun she and him are having "special hugs" his bubble nest is coming along nicely. She is huge so I'm pretty sure she's full of eggs and about to burst. I can't wait.

no, but I'm quite certain she's a female. But she has that egg tube showing so she must be a girl.

I switched females round to see if he would change his behaviour so i put my 2nd female in and took the first out. After awhile i took her out of the breeder and they went crazy. She showed a lot of interest and so did he, until she attacked him . She took off over half of his fins in 1 go (I saw her swim away with blue fin in her mouth). I took her out and put her back in the breeder. He became very shy and spent the next 24 hours (roughly) at the bottom hiding. So i took her out and put her in the main tank now all the 2 females do is fight. Should i put 1 of the females back into the tank with my main man straight away, or let them settle down first???

It's quite upsetting isn't it we have also lost 3 danios in the space of about 3-4 months

that's the thing, there are no stripes just scattered blue dots and i think i read its vertical for breeding and horizontal for stress

I took her out of the net thing as she had started flaring at him but it was straight back to his old ways, chasing her round. But now things have settled in the space of under an hour. Though now she is flaring at him it's kind of confusing because she will flare at him but will swim away when he flares at her. Is that normal behaviour? That small white tube is showing and has been showing for sometime, what other signs are there?

could be, but i'm not to sure as they are only a few months old, how long do they live?

The thing is now he wont build the nest he's too busy flaring at her, There are no bubbles any where

Today i was shocked when my danio died with out any signs, normally the other danios die with signs. It all of a sudden was swimming slower then the rest and on its side. There were no tattered fins, bloating or discolouring. Can any one help as to what may have caused its random death?

She has just started flaring at him now I was told that that isn't a good thing and that the female is supposed to be more submissive. is this true? :-?

Last night i noticed one of my cardinals had lost its eye and half of its face . I think it might have been the work of my female Siamese fighting fish. After the attack i noticed that the female fighter was still picking on that cardinal and only that one. Should I isolate that cardinal or the female fighter or neither?

thanks very much, will do that

I think i wrote it out wrong. :oops: i ment the guppy breeder things you know the little plastic breeder things that go inside the normal tanks

We recently put a Female Siamese in with Our Male Siamese and she is showing no interest in him. We put him in an isolation tank as he was chasing her round and she didn't like it. Now the male Siamese is building a bubble nest, How do we know when she is ready and when to take him out? Is this behaviour part of the spawning process? Fluffypants junior

Good memory JN. The male fighter ended up with a prolapsed bowel after being terrorised by this female. We've since bought a 'tougher' male who can handle our girls but he still ended up with shredded fins on first introduction and then we separated them. This girl was the one who also jumped out of the tank and wasn't found for a couple of hours. She also managed to get herself wedged between the filter motor and the glass and had to be freed. We're having worse luck with dwarf gouramis! First one died from dropsy 3 days after purchase, second was attacked by the male betta, lost an eye and died, and the third died of unknown causes 2 days ago. This girl seems to be completely untroubled by the lump but we are keeping her isolated as a precaution and I'll keep the water pristine. Would love to know what it is though.

Our female Siamese fighter has developed a lump on her side. It started out as a kind of opaque blue patch. Over the last few days it started to look like a pimple and began to protrude slightly. Today it has a red appearance as though part of her insides are coming out through the lump. It doesn't seem to bother her too much but our dwarf blue gourami has a much smaller red lump on the base of his dorsal fin. He is not looking so good and is probably on his way out. I've managed to get a couple of photos. The bottom one shows how far it protrudes. Can anyone tell me what it is and can it be treated?

Finally the tank has cleared. I did a big water change and found a clear gel like slime around the suction cups on the heater so I gave everything a good wipe down including glass and filter unit. After a few days the water clouded and I could see green/black slime starting to coat the leaves again. I put a Siamese algae eater and a pleco in the tank and didn't feed them for a few days. Lo and behold, the tank cleared!! What great little (now a bit fatter) fish

Is it a huge amount or just the odd string? If it's a lot, try manually removing some. The SAE will eat if off the plants, mine often nibble all over the plants. Their whole bodies twitch when they eat, as though they are SO excited to have found some algae. Other option is to do the black out.

Water has started to cloud again already. The problem is only with this particular tank. I have 2 other tanks and the water is chrystal clear.

Tanks not in direct sunlight and it's and undergravel filter. I'm going to try another water change only this time I'll do 90%.

If it looks like a fine strand of hair attached to the plants and is green when you pull it out, it's probably Hair Algae. Get a Siamese Algae eater and it should take care of it. Make sure it's a genuine SAE, as some LFS sell other algae eaters eg. Flying Fox, as SAE's.

My initial thought was bacterial bloom but because it's been there for nearly 5 weeks, I'm wondering if it's something else. Gravel was cleaned thoroughly before setting up tank. Can't have been too much food as the tank went cloudy before any fish were put in.