Identify My Gourami Pls

[-germ-]

I'm 99% sure these are male honeys, just double checking.
Bet this doesn't work!
Many thanks, if the link/pic actually works...

 

[-germ-]

This may be better....

 

[DarkShadow435]

Possibly a honey gourami, or a gold gourami. Tha's my imput.

 

[-germ-]

Doh...

Extra info; they were labelled as peach gourami. They are goldy yellow on the main body with an orange tinge creeping up from their bottom fin and slightly on to their underneath, the crest of their head is ever so slightly silver.....
I hope they're not golds, grow to 6" don't they?
Sylvia.......
Thanks for the suggestion

 

[DarkShadow435]

The site i have used to ID fish in the past is very good. I'll give you the link.

http/www.aquahobby.com/e_gallery.php

They have a great freshwater section. See which gourami best matches yours.

 

[-germ-]

Thanks very much

 

[Rillan]

They are honey gourami! I have 2 yellow ones and 2 blood red gourmai.

 

[-germ-]

Phew! Hope so....
Are dwarves and honeys common crossbreeders? I don't want any redneck 3-eyed gourami babies securing my aquarium induced mental collapse
Thought they were honeys but nearly all the pics i've seen had let me unsure.
Many thanks!

 

[Rillan]

If you see them playing a banjo and blowing into a bottle then get worried

Dwarf and Honey are dead hard to tell apart. Its all down to size though. I think the Dwarf are bigger. It took me a week to work out mine were Honey.

 

[-germ-]

Fingers crossed, i've seen Deliverance and know what its ALL about!
Cheers mate, peas....

 

[sylvia]

Dwarfs and honeys can crossbreed but they don't actually look particularly similar. Honeys stay at around 1.5", dwarfs grow to about 2" (average sizes obviously). Honeys generally look less compact - not as 'sturdy' and often lengthier in the body. Male dwarfs almost all have vertical stripes of some sort except the 'red' and 'powder blue' morphs. In the reds, they'll have a blue dorsal. Male honeys never have vertical stripes and most develop a blue-black ventral coloration when in breeding condition. I have never seen a male dwarf will a clear tail and dwarfs tend to have 'bulbous' fins while mature honeys tend to have pointed fins.

http/www.bayfish.com.au/images/red_honey_gourami_sml.jpg - red honey
http/www.aquariumfish.net/images_01/gourami_dwarf_red.jpg - red dwarf

The species I find difficult to tell apart (from photos anyway) are honeys and thick-lipped gouramies - the 'red' color morphs. These can sometimes look practically identical in terms of coloration with the only real differences being in body shape and fin shape.

http/www.theaquarians.net/FishGuide/thic...d_gourami_2.jpg - thick-lipped
http/www.tjorvar.is/assets/images/autoge...aster_chuna.jpg - honey

Anyway - I'm going completely off-topic now

 

[Rillan]

Yep Fish with banjos is the topic here.

 

[-germ-]

Rillan, i woke up this morning and my gourami has grown a pair of buck teeth!!! He's swimming around mumbling something about putting moonshine in the tank water?

 

[-germ-]

That was childish, anyhow (ahem)....
I'm still worried as to whether they are honeys, they are now easily 2 and a half inches excluding the tail, they are also robustly built and much more so than the dwarves. The closest gourami i've seen in any LFS was labelled as a Peach-Honey gourami. Is this an actual ssp or a LFS invention? I'll try to get some better pics....
Cheers guys

 

[sylvia]

I'm pretty certain it's an LFS invention and wouldn't be surprised if you have thick-lipped gouramies and not honeys. A picture of one from the side - and maybe including a dwarf in the pic for size comparison - would be useful. Also, if you can get a relatively close-up pic head-on, that would help.

Are they bigger than the dwarfs at the moment? If so, they are not honeys.