nicoleandthebee
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This Easter we bought a male & female dwarf gourami to add to our 100lt tank.
We already had 5 glowlights 3 corys & 5 cardinals but they all got on very well - both gouramis were really peaceful until Mr Gourami started to make bubble nests!
Mrs Gourami was pretty uninterested but Mr Gourami gradually got more aggressive & was constantly chasing her & scaring all the tetras - we noticed they were keeping to one small corner of the tank and he had the rest!
One morning we found a dead cory and we thought Mr Gourami might have attacked it so we decided to move him into our other tank which was housing new fish (6 rummys and a new female Gourami that we were hoping would take some of the attention off the original female...)
Now Mr Gourami's on his own and the two females are together with the rest. Apart from being a bit smaller the new gourami was exactly like Mrs Gourami (unfortunately we don't have any photos). Now "she" looks like this!
I said we must have bought a boy, maybe they don't get their strong colours til they're older... But apparantly (so I've read) young females can change into males...
Does anyone else think this is possible? It's really weird! And how we kinda have situation one on our hands again 


We already had 5 glowlights 3 corys & 5 cardinals but they all got on very well - both gouramis were really peaceful until Mr Gourami started to make bubble nests!
Mrs Gourami was pretty uninterested but Mr Gourami gradually got more aggressive & was constantly chasing her & scaring all the tetras - we noticed they were keeping to one small corner of the tank and he had the rest!
One morning we found a dead cory and we thought Mr Gourami might have attacked it so we decided to move him into our other tank which was housing new fish (6 rummys and a new female Gourami that we were hoping would take some of the attention off the original female...)
Now Mr Gourami's on his own and the two females are together with the rest. Apart from being a bit smaller the new gourami was exactly like Mrs Gourami (unfortunately we don't have any photos). Now "she" looks like this!

I said we must have bought a boy, maybe they don't get their strong colours til they're older... But apparantly (so I've read) young females can change into males...
