HELP-Another Sick gourami.

[Oscar]

Please see my recent post and pic.I now have another sick gourami-water tests still all ok.This one is going to top of tank all the time and blowing bubbles.He has no physical marks but his scales are slightly raised.

Please see pic.I hope someone can help?

http://images.snapfish.com/345467272323 ... 7%3Bnu0mrj

[Caryl]

A gourami that goes to the surface and blows bubbles is trying to build a bubble nest, not sick.

[Oscar]

Thanks for that-makes sense as the female is doing same thing now.

I was concerned he had same thing other one had.

Do you have any ideas what he may have had?

I think possible over feeding but how do you work out amount to feed a community tank?

[Caryl]

General rule of thumb is to feed enough the fish can eat within 5 minutes. Look at the fish. Think how small it is. Think how much smaller its stomach is.

Better to feed small amounts often than larger amounts less often. I don't even feed my community fish every day. They only get fed abuot 3 times a week, if that. The bigger African cichlids get fed once a day.

[simfish]

My gourami was blowing bubbles, etc. and then a few days later it died. I read somewere thereafter that a couple gouramis in a small tank is not good cause the larger one will continue to peck the smaller one until it gets sick and than dies.... I gues thats what happened to mine....