Chocolate Gouramis

[Synirr]

These were there when I got to work today... my boss said this is one of the best shipments of them we've ever gotten, they look GREAT! Very active and healthy, and the two I took already ate after I got them home . Quite apart from the licorice gouramis we got a week or two back that all died within 24 hours, but those shipments were from two very different companies... just goes to show the difference a good supplier can make. My fish encyclopedia of a coworker said he has bred them before and the trick is a pH of around 4 . I may try to breed them eventually, I'm about 80-90% sure I got a pair, but for now they are just tankmates to the Betta albimarginata juvies. I will probably pop them in a tank with the pair of B. simplex I am getting, if they ever get shipped

Sorry for the crappy pics, but I had to put a lot of blackwater extract in the water to make them comfortable.

 

[DiscusKeeper403]

dont gourmis and bettas fight?

 

[vancouver]

Those are wicked fish.. I've only seen them once around here.. bought 2.. both were dead within a week.

Hope you have better luck with them then I did! Crappy suppliers suck btw.. I know what thats like.

 

[Ethos]

dont gourmis and bettas fight?

She's keeping them with a wild species of bettas, so no, these ones spicifically won't fight. I can't say all wilds don't fight eachother, but I know Synirr knows what she's doing because she has/had like a billion bettas.

 

[Synirr]

Yeah, most wild species of betta are ok with gouramis, depending on the gourami. The albimarginata are small and peaceful, the juvie tank has several subadult/adult males that live together without a ripped fin one, so they will be fine I'm sure.

 

[Mr.September15]

mmmm...Chocolate....Sexy Fish. And I think I have the same tank shelf thing that you have.

 

[callum_parsons]

that is a really nice fish. i have never seen one in the flesh i bet they look even better then.

 

[RadaR]

Aaww wow, these fish are great. Not the easiest fish to keep though.

 

[Gill]

Lovely Gouramis Syn, I have had them are they are so curiuos but difficult to keep.

 

[Synirr]

A coworker of mine uses lemon juice to bring the pH down in his apisto tanks, I am probably going to be doing the same for these guys if the blackwater extract and such can't take it down to around 5. After I get back from visiting my parents this weekend I'm going to set up a tank for them that has oak leaves as substrate, which should keep the pH low and relatively stable. I also get free RO at work, which will be helpful if I can't regulate my tap water well enough for them
As of now they are still eating and doing great.

 

[Fella]

If you like these guys, and vespicula depressifrons, check out nandus sp. A mix of the two!

 

[Synirr]

Yep, we have one of those at work right now

 

[helsekia]

yummy scrummy

some very nice fishies there

 

[Synirr]

Not a great pic, but it shows the colour

EDIT: and a tank shot

 

[Ethos]

That's a great little tank for its size! Are you feeding them bloodworms, or no? Do you feed then the same as your bettas?