Recent content by Porthious the Gourami

A fishes heat tolerance depends on the breed. For example, gouramis can tolerate 32 to 33 degrees Celcius with exellent results, but corydora catfish can not stand temperatures that high. Putting the temperature up by one degree Celcius every day for your guppy untill 30 degrees Celcius can do...

Hi Jamie, Adding a bit of salt to the water is excellent. Try increasing the water temperature by two degrees Celcius. If the dark spot is located on the hind belly under the top dorsal fin (not exactly on the tail) then it could be the 'gravid spot' which is where baby mollies are developing...

Hi Discus Man, let me just mention here that my water conditions where optimal, temperature was perfect, nutritional fish food excellent, and still they got sick because they have a weak immune system because of inbreeding and pampering for profit from the fish breeders and shops. This had...

Good to see that some of you are opting for natural cures, eg salt and heat. My gourami friend had 'hole in the head' disease, an internal intestinal tract bacterial infection which caused her many ulcers. I successfully treated her by increasing the temperature to 32 degrees Celsius, and her...

Hi Discus Man, I understand just how frustrating and agonizing it is to lose a fish friend, and I know everyone has a point, but it still doesn't help when fishy goes to heaven eh? Personally I eat bloodworms (being a gourami) and they taste pretty good to me but brine shrimp is also tasty. Good...

I have used this perfect solution to cure all the fish I have owned in the past of that dreaded fin rot. Even when I bought them from the shop with fin rot (disgusting) I could cure them every time, gouramis, angelfish, barbs, neons, corydora catfish, dollars, and platies. Salt is very humane...

Emmediatly put 5 grams of salt per litre (already mixed with a bit of the tank water) into the barbs tank, introduce the salty solution slowly - that is all of it in 5 minutes into the tank to let the barb adjust a bit. If you have a 5 litre tank add 25 grams of salt. If you have a 10 litre...

I do not know what your fish are suffering from but when my platies were ill I successfully treated them by giving them a salt bath. 3 (Three) grams of salt per litre of water is a mild saline solution, and it did my fish a world of good when I had fish in the past. Introduce the salt already...

It sounds to me like your fish has New Tank Syndrome. I think that is a condition where the fish is too stressed because of differences in water pH and water hardness, temperature, etc. In addition, it seems like the fish salesperson sold you a dud and in my experience this has been done on...

P.S. Forgot to mention that the time I bath my gourami when she is sick is 3-4 hours in her special bath.

Increasing the heat is a good idea. My Gourami has what I think is hole in the head but she still has a ferocious appetite and when I turn the temperature up to 27-30 degrees Celcius the ulcers and holes heal up conciderably. For most fish problems I use salt, and Gouramis can tolerate both heat...