I have 3 chocolate gourami from last few week - 1 male and 2 female (I think, but I'm not sure).I try to buy another 3 (also 1 m + 2 f) to have 6 fish.
I know that they are extremely delicate - yesterday, my only male led me almost to a heart attack - it turned out to be gray with a black head ... the most like it was a strong, almost lethal stress related to the change of the root! Today he coming back to chase female (but without aggression), that's why I really think it was only stress.
Currently, my chocolates are in one aquarium with rasbora chilli, habrosus corydoras and caridina. If you had any idea what I can replace crydoras and shrimps (chocolates lose a lot of food, I care about something that is cleaned up) I'm open to suggestions. But rasbora definitely stays, I can recommend them to everyone for chocolates. When I change my tank for chocolade (pH: 5.5, temp: 25 C, KH: 2, water change: 2 x week in 10%, many pistia, more roots, only frozen food 2 x day) chilli show me how red and beautifull they can be.
Chocolate gouramis are incredibly beautiful fish, but I don't know what is more difficult - to hold them or find some information about them!
If you know anything about these fish, I will be very grateful for all advice and information. In my language, the only thing I found was in short "harder than discus".
If someone help mi I can show you few picures - one of them is from yesterday, with my gray male.
Ps. I'm sorry, but I don't speak perfectly in English.
I know that they are extremely delicate - yesterday, my only male led me almost to a heart attack - it turned out to be gray with a black head ... the most like it was a strong, almost lethal stress related to the change of the root! Today he coming back to chase female (but without aggression), that's why I really think it was only stress.
Currently, my chocolates are in one aquarium with rasbora chilli, habrosus corydoras and caridina. If you had any idea what I can replace crydoras and shrimps (chocolates lose a lot of food, I care about something that is cleaned up) I'm open to suggestions. But rasbora definitely stays, I can recommend them to everyone for chocolates. When I change my tank for chocolade (pH: 5.5, temp: 25 C, KH: 2, water change: 2 x week in 10%, many pistia, more roots, only frozen food 2 x day) chilli show me how red and beautifull they can be.
Chocolate gouramis are incredibly beautiful fish, but I don't know what is more difficult - to hold them or find some information about them!
If you know anything about these fish, I will be very grateful for all advice and information. In my language, the only thing I found was in short "harder than discus".
If someone help mi I can show you few picures - one of them is from yesterday, with my gray male.
Ps. I'm sorry, but I don't speak perfectly in English.