but if the other silver one is turning brown, you could have 2 normal males and an orange female
I know, for sure, without a shadow of a doubt, that the silver and brown stripes is female, and the orange/black/yellow is a male, both of the wild type. The yellow I
think is a female, and others on forum have said it appears to be female, but I guess there's no guaranteed way to yellow with the golden/yellow variety? I know the yellow has never had color changes, except for a gray horizontal stripe midline, sometimes it's not really there, and sometimes its darker, but it doesnt seem to correlate with any specific activity yet.
she will quickly find out that I am not a nice person.
I believe you are an EXTREMELY NICE person! You let that happen how many times, without severe repercussions?
(I mean no offense by this, by the way) You let things escalate a LOT further than I would have, or most people around here even. I would have disemboweled the first cat, on top of their windshield the first time, and obviously things would have escalated further if it happened again! Of course, suppose some of it is upbringing. I had a cat as a child, one day it jumped on the counter, and ate into the plastic bread bag, and ate some chunks out of maybe 1/4 of the loaf. My stepfather at the time, took it out with the neighbor, and used it to train their dogs for mountain lion hunting. It was shot out of the tree, fell (still alive), and was ripped to pieces by two plott hounds (this is from the story, I didnt witness it). But ever since then, the few cats I have lived with, by choice or because of someone I lived with, have ALL been vindictive little _______ and there is nothing you can say about them, that will upset me, cuz I hate them too!
Though none of them cost me like they cost you!
Place a pair of Bettas in the breeding tank, and let them do their thing, Once the female has expelled all her eggs the male chases he away from the bubble nest and at this point you remove the female from the tank for her safety as the male will chase and in most cases kill her while hes looking after the eggs and fry.
I saw online, where it stated " if you want to breed the honey gourami, remove the female after the eggs are fertilized, remove male after they are free swimming." But NOTHING about if they breed in a community tank, the male will kill anything that moves, any decoration that looks like it might move, and then harass the females until they are frightened to even take a breath of air! Most information on them, says they are fine in groups, and in community tanks, and to me, that means they wont kill the other fish if they venture past 1/3 of the tank. Like I said, I could understand if they are near the babies, even if they are at the bottom underneath the babies, but on the complete opposite end of the aquarium, minding their own business, and he charges them, that's just ridiculous. And he was doing it way before I messed with the tank at all.
I didnt even do a water change on my normal day, and went an extra 4 days before I decided I would intervene, as he broke down the divider, and this got himself stuck on the opposite side of his babies. My nitrates weren't high, ~10ppm, the hornwort keeps it low, obviously I wouldnt have to change water every week for nitrates, but I do it to pick up scraps, plant, matter, etc, in the gravel, but that wasnt making him extra aggressive either. I think he is simply a jerk.
I am leaving him in the 10g indefinitely. I will possibly try putting a female in, after everything else is out, and do it like some of the videos I've seen, with a divider, so he can see her, but not harass her, let him get a nest up, then let them do their thing, then remove female back to community tank. Just a bummer because he is very handsome, and the colors are very striking, but I'm not gonna have him slaughter everyone in my community tank...
