Honey Gourami Behaviour

[Gill]

Ok so i have 2 Normal Gold Honey Gourami's 3 Sunset H G and 1 peachy color honey gourami.

The sunsets keep together and the Gold stay together, but the Peachy colored 1 ignores the others and stays on its own.
At first i thought it was female cause it was alot paler in the LFS, but having colored up it is now honeyish color in the head and then blends into a more peachy color towards the tail.
Anything i can do to make it interact more with the other Gouramis ?

 

[Aprilia997]

That type of gourami tends to be a retiring and avoid conflicts with larger fish.

 

[Gill]

Well, the Peachy one has Fully Colored up and its a Male Dwarf Gourami.
Colisa sota, never had 1 of these so will be interesting to see how it interacts with the others.

 

[sylvia]

All of your gouramies are the same species - just different morphs. (so you have had one of these before I mean) It isn't unusual for them to 'group' seperately as they were probably added at different times and males don't usualy like other gouramies' company anyway.

 

[Gill]

All of your gouramies are the same species - just different morphs. (so you have had one of these before I mean) It isn't unusual for them to 'group' seperately as they were probably added at different times and males don't usualy like other gouramies' company anyway.

I was waiting for yo too reply. Ok so they are just different color morphs. I love this Guys color, have always seent these on Liveaquaria but had never seen these in the flesh.

I have seen more interaction this evening and he is chasing the smaller sunsets a little but this should settle down shortly Right?

I'll try and get some pix of them all today.

 

[sylvia]

Looking forward to the pics!

The chasing is normal and should settle a little though he'll be chasing any females around for a while if he's in breeding condition (which he is). This shouldn't be problematic though as you have quite a few so he will not bother any particular individual excessively. What sexes are the others?

 

[Gill]

Looking forward to the pics!

The chasing is normal and should settle a little though he'll be chasing any females around for a while if he's in breeding condition (which he is). This shouldn't be problematic though as you have quite a few so he will not bother any particular individual excessively. What sexes are the others?

dont know, who i sex them

 

[sylvia]

Well there's the obvious color change but sometimes you don't get that with color morphs like 'sunsets'. Females are generaly duller though and wild-type females have a dark brown line running from eye to caudal peduncle which isn't prominent in mature males.
The next way is to look at their fins. Males have extended dorsal and anal fins which tend to look 'bulbous'. The body shape is slightly different also - the females are wider when viewed from above and generaly deeper-bodied.
If you have both males and females in the tank, it is easier to spot these differences but this is still one of the trickier species to sex (at least until they start spawning).
I wouldn't promise anything but, if you can get some clear side shots of some of them, I might be able to tell you what sexes they are.

 

[Gill]

Well there's the obvious color change but sometimes you don't get that with color morphs like 'sunsets'. Females are generaly duller though and wild-type females have a dark brown line running from eye to caudal peduncle which isn't prominent in mature males.
The next way is to look at their fins. Males have extended dorsal and anal fins which tend to look 'bulbous'. The body shape is slightly different also - the females are wider when viewed from above and generaly deeper-bodied.
If you have both males and females in the tank, it is easier to spot these differences but this is still one of the trickier species to sex (at least until they start spawning).
I wouldn't promise anything but, if you can get some clear side shots of some of them, I might be able to tell you what sexes they are.

In that Case I have 3 males and 3 females.

theres pix in the pix section