3 Spot Colours

[blackbat]

I was just wondering if the colour morph has a name. she looks like a thrush song bird with spotted white belly and a buff light brown shimmery body and brown spots.
is she a chocolate or lavender? if not what colour morph is she I wonder?

she does have spots but they are just hiding as she has just been moved back into the big tank from the isolation tank and she thinks this is all too much lol

 

[TammyLiz]

I have one with those colors. The store where I bought her calls them lavender. However, she looks just brown to me. My daughter (age 3) calls her "The brown fishy". She hasn't been doing well lately, though. She is losing weight and I don't know why.

Yours looks beautiful, whatever you decide to call her.

 

[blackbat]

I have one with those colors. The store where I bought her calls them lavender. However, she looks just brown to me. My daughter (age 3) calls her "The brown fishy". She hasn't been doing well lately, though. She is losing weight and I don't know why.

Yours looks beautiful, whatever you decide to call her.

awww I think I will stick to honey if you pardon the pun. honey, jasmine and smudge (she looks like her spots smudged in the water) and mr gregory plec. lol my ikkle fishy family
when are you due btw of topic? and congrats

 

[Fizban]

hmmmmmmm looks at the pics there is a typ of brown gourami i cant think of its colour morph name ...i have one brown gourami mines a male but i still think theres a chance your could be a dull/darker lavender as well cuz the first pic looks like it may have a bit of gold in it ............any way wait for some one who nos more about colour morphs

 

[blackbat]

Hi thanks for your reply, she is a beige under brown stripe and she has black spots normally but she is just recovering from white spot and the yellow on the side of her body by her head is where she hurt herself rubbing and she has bashed some scales off she is being treated tho so hopefully she won't get any infection in it.
Bless her. She was in with a small fish don't know what it was at the fish shop and the little opal was in with a ruddy big male. 3 older females & a tigerbarb and getting picked on so I got them both cuz they were looking down and my blue 3 spot was lonely and hiding in my tank.
they are really happy noe dispite the set back with white spot.

 

[blackbat]

smudge not doing a good job at hiding from me and the camrea

Jasmine doing a good job at hiding from me and the camera

Honey trying to hide from me and the camera

honey

Honey

smudge

mr pleco and jasmine

 

[sylvia]

You have some beautiful fish

First of all, her pattern is opaline.

If she was labelled as a 'lavender' she probably came from a cross between a blue (or blue opaline) and a gold (or gold opaline) three-spot. However, her gold parent was probably not from a blue line. The result is a fish where the bright blue typical of 'blue' gouramies has been reduced to th wild brownish-blue color and then you have gold mixed in because of the gold parent.

You see the blue color we are so familiar with, is not naturaly occuring - it was selectively bred from wild fish which are much duller and more brownish. The gold color we are familiar with, on the other hand, is naturaly occuring so not as much breeding to enhance the color has occured and certainly not enough crossing to 'domestic' blue strains to ensure that crosses to blue now produce offspring without wild characteristics.

Your fish is more than likely technicaly a lavender. But it has wild coloration instead of lots of bright blue.

 

[blackbat]

wow thanks for that, I thought she looked like she could be wild, she is a beautiful contrast to the two blues of my opaline and 2/3 spot blue. Her black spots are back today she must be in a better mood lol shame I might have to upset her again I think she maybe getting fungus from her rubbing the other day - salt bath time or maybe I should dose the tank with some melafix to not stress her anymore than she has been.

I think she had been over looked at the fish shop because she was dull compared to the others but I thought she was really interesting looking. I could really become fanatical about gourami

 

[TammyLiz]

Be careful with melafix and gouramis. I think it is easy to overdose it with them. I've heard a theory that since they breathe at the surface, they tend to get too much of it since it collects there. Can anyone confirm this?

Anyways, I think I would use a low dose of malachite green for the fungus instead. Do an extra water change as well, before you start medicating, and also in the middle of treatment before you add more medication. Clean water is the best thing you can do for fungus.

I'm due on January 30th, BTW. Not too far off! There's so much work to be done before then.

 

[sylvia]

'Fungus' is never fungus unless it's growing on dead tissue (eg as a secondary infection) - in actual fact you'd have a case of Flexibacter columnaris and/or Aeromonas sp.. These are bacterial infections that also cause finrot and the first thing you need to do is very, very gradualy lower the temperature in your tank to just under 76 deg F. This immediately slows down the progression of the infection. Then dose with an anti-fungus and finrot med. (Like Interpet's Treatment no. 8 - since you live in the UK). Make sure you follow the instructions very carefuly and do frequent water changes even if this means replacing the dose each time.

Melafix has been, apparently, known to cause problems in bettas (which are gouramies) but I, myself, have never had issues and I can't help but think that people have used the product in scape-goat fashion. It only contains 1% active ingredients - 99% is literally useless And though this isn't a good enough reason to say it's harmless, the actual ingredient (Melaleuka tree oil - sometimes incorrectly called 'tea tree oil') has only been conclusively shown to be effective against fungus (and I mean fungus - not bacterial infections). You also need to keep in mind that such tests don't generaly look at the sort of pathogens that cause disease in fish - far more money goes into research that'll benefit humans! I use Melafix occasionaly when quarantining fish but I don't bother with it at other times. Bettafix is exactly like Melafix but diluted to 0.2% (5 drops Bettafix per gallon therefore equals 1 drop Melafix per gallon - quite a rip off realy - you can just use one drop Melafix per 5 gallons if you're concerned and forget the Bettafix!).

If your fish is 'coming down with something', you'll probably start noticing more severe symptoms soon enough - I personaly would expect ich/velvet or something along those lines rather than a bacterial infection - but that remains to be seen. You should never treat fish without knowing what they have anyway - especialy where antibiotics are involved.

Having said that, flicking isn't deffinately a disease coming on - it could just be she's irritated by something in the water in which case water changes, immediately, are the best thing. Of course, clean water is always extremely important whether the fish are healthy or not.

 

[blackbat]

Well the melafix didn't harm them any this time or when I used it when treating columnaris last time. I have successfully treated columnaris using treatment from the vet that I added to the food so I am quite aware of the illness and symptoms. I lowered the temp added more air and used salt and malafix. Fish were all good after the antibiotics.
well the flicking is still happening but not so much, the fish are not showing any other symptoms so it is hard to treat them for anything. they are swimming fine and lively, they don't have clamped fins or any laboured breathing. they are eating fine. there is no skin or finnage problems now and the whitespot was cleared quickly and only the brown gourami ever had any spots and then only on her fins (about 20).
I am quite stumped and very reluctant to treat with anything chemical based as I am unsure of what I am treating.
To be honest they have never looked so healthy and alert. They are out swimming most the time now and there is no hiding or sulking going on.

The melafix did seem to sooth the flicking so I am thinking that they just had some mild infection or irratation. Gonna be doing the weekly 25% water change today anyhow and will put the carbon back in to remove the melafix.

Blinkin fish
Oh the water is testing fine so nothing there to suspect

Oh they do love the daphnia I only managed to source some last weekend and wow my fish love me now haaha no wonder they are looking perky