I got a new Dwarf Gourami!

[afireinside]

well, today, while i was at my lfs, i went to just pick up some plants, and some neon tetras, and some ghost shrimp if they had any good sized ones. well, i got the neons, but most of the shrimp were gone and small, so i'm going through the tanks and i see this dwarf fire gourami, i was gonna get him, but he was hidding and i heard that fish that hide are often sick and won't have as long as a life. but then i was browsing the tank a little more, i see a discus, i really wanted it, but i didn't bring enough $ and my tank was too small, i see some painted fish, made me mad, and then a dwarf fire gourami?! i made sure he wasn't the same one, he was very active and all that stuff. so i bought him. not bad, i thought, it was only 6 bucks. i'll post pictures of him later. he is just so awsome, if i could, i would hug "it" (i don't know if it's a female or male)

 

[shuhu]

well if its very colourfull it is most likely to be a male, females have a really dull silvery blue-gray color.

 

[Ami]

Sorry for jumping in....

Is it true that the captive bred blue neon dwarfs and red flame dwarfs are all male then?



Ami

 

[afireinside]

i don't think so, but here's the pix, i reduced the size cause they were blurry.

i'm still trying to think of a good name. which do you guys like better? Ansem, or Sephiroth?

 

[fishwatcher]

PRETTY!!! I like Ansem... but it could be bc I can't say the other name!
BTW, I don't think the colormorphs are just males. Since they are born with those colors, not injected, I don't think the breeders could pick just the male eggs to have that color... it's just that the females are a duller color, so it wouldn't really show up anyways. Just what I think though... I'm not a breeder so I don't know for sure.

 

[afireinside]

here, i'll pronounce Sephiroth for you.

Seff-ear-oth

and ya, those things are pretty, i want to get a blue one now.

 

[Ami]

I visited a different supplier to my normal LFS last weekend and they had several different shades of blue dwarfs. They're pretty eyecatching and I'm glad to hear they're bred rather than injected!


They had blues, reds and normal coloured dwarfs then a tank full of the dull coloured females, which was specifically marked 'female gouramis', hence why I thought maybe the blues and reds were all male.