Honey gouramies

[trevo878]

I have seen many pics on the internet of honey gouramies lately and they look nothing like mine! In the pics i see, almost the whole body of the honey gouramie is bright orange, while mine have an upper body that is bright orange, but the bottom is a silvery-white color.

When i baught them, they were labeled as "sunset honey gouramies." Are my fish a different variation of honeys or will their colour come out over time?

Thanks,
Trevo

 

[Dubby]

If you have just brought them then they will take a few days to adjust and should gain color.

The other possibility is .....Females are less brightly coloured. So, it could be you've got a different species of maybe just the females.

You can help enhance their color by giving them live foods and special color enhancing flakes. The color of your tubelight can also bring out different colors.

 

[OohFeeshy]

I think there might be a few different colourings. In the tank at pets at home wih the honey gouramis, there are grey'y white ones.

 

[mandi]

It could very well be that they're females.

Also, sometimes the pictures you'll see of VERY brightly colored honeys actually aren't honey gouramies (Colisa sota or Colisa chuna) at all -- they're a "honey DWARF gourami" which is simply a color variation of the dwarf gourami (Colisa lalia)

Also, as Dubby said, females are less brightly colored (mine are a yellowish off-white color). Males can sometimes also be dull-colored -- they get their bright colors when it's mating time.

The fish in my avatar is a pic of one of my honeys when he/she (?) was very young. They're a bit older now, and the females look the same as that photo, and the males have brighter orange on their fins, and a blue/black color around their eyes (looks like they got a black eye LOL).

I also found this page that has a couple photos on it of "duller" colored honeys. Are those more what yours look like?

(Edit -) Here's a little bigger/better pic of mine (same pic as my avatar). The person I bought them from identified them as Colisa sota. I don't know if Colisa sota and Colisa chuna are exactly the same and interchangable names, or if there's a slight variation between the two, but I know both are considdered "Honey Gourami"

 

[Gill]

You Probably Have

Colisa Sota