Croaking gourami babies in bubble nest!

[Dwarfs]

The female is guarding the bottom of the tank, below the babies. I watched her attack a full grown Keyhole cichlid.

I suppose the keyhole backed off?

Awesome, the parents look great Good luck with the fry

 

[Kiarra]

Those are great pics. Thank you for taking them! I'm still trying to figure out FOR SURE if one of my pair of Croaking Gouramis is a girl. And they're such a lovely species. Yours are adorable.

Frozen BBS should work, though maybe not initially. If you can, try and find some frozen Rotifers. I tried a batch of Betta fry on frozen Rotifers at free-swimming stage, and then started adding frozen BBS a week later. It's been 4 weeks, and they're all still alive, happy, and growing FAST.

 

[cometcattle]

Thanks everyone.

aloaring - I think my ph is around 7.6 - 7.8, but i haven't tested it since I add my second Hagen CO2 diffuser to the tank. I should test it.

dwarfs - they were mostly sneak attacks, and hit and run.

kiarra - Thanks for the advice. I will call around today to see if any LFS carry rotifers. I might eventually put the pair in a 10g to breed. If I do, I will be sure to have some live food cultures going.

 

[paige]

arrr there soo cute have fun raising them

 

[Angel Lady]

Very Cool Babies .....they had quite a few

 

[Kiarra]

How are they doing now? Still there?

 

[cometcattle]

How are they doing now? Still there?

I haven't seen any in about 5 days. I can't really tell if there are any survivors in the clump of java moss I floated in the tank, but I doubt it.

Their next spawn might have a better chance after I remove the Tiger barbs I have in the tank. The barbs are almost big enough to be moved to my cichlid tank.

I'm not looking forward catching 6 of them in a heavily planted tank.

 

[Kiarra]

Ah...poor babies.

And poor you. That is not going to be fun at all to catch those Barbs.