Jaymis
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This past sunday I got a female (i believe she's a female, at least!) Honey Gourami from my local pet store and put her into my 10 gallon tank, which i'll put a picture of at the end of this post. Since then, i've noticed she spends a lot of time resting on the substrate at the bottom of her tank, particularly underneath her driftwood. She also appears to be breathing (would it be called that for a fish?) fast, but I don't know if that might just be a gourami thing. I did a 45-50% water change yesterday, but she's still resting at the bottom a lot. She's eating normally (she goes crazy when she sees her food!) and I see her swim around fairly often, but she always returns to the bottom of the tank.
The water params are 0 ammonia, 0 nitrate, and 0 nitrite, with a pH of somewhere between 6.8 and 7 (the color didn't quite match either, so I assume it was somewhere between those). Her tank is filtered and heated, temp reading around 82 degrees Fahrenheit (about 27 degrees Celsius).
I also noticed her color has been changing a bit? When I first got her she had a dark horizontal stripe on both sides of her body, but then a day or so later it disappeared, and this morning I saw it was back! Is this also something I should be worried about? This is my first time owning a gourami, so I'm still learning and dont want my poor girl getting hurt because of a mistake I made!
This is Soup's tank!
This is her two days ago, next to the driftwood she likes to sit underneath.
and this is her a few hours ago, inside of her rock hide. This was the best clear picture I could get that showed her stripe.
Thank you anyone who can offer help/advice!!
The water params are 0 ammonia, 0 nitrate, and 0 nitrite, with a pH of somewhere between 6.8 and 7 (the color didn't quite match either, so I assume it was somewhere between those). Her tank is filtered and heated, temp reading around 82 degrees Fahrenheit (about 27 degrees Celsius).
I also noticed her color has been changing a bit? When I first got her she had a dark horizontal stripe on both sides of her body, but then a day or so later it disappeared, and this morning I saw it was back! Is this also something I should be worried about? This is my first time owning a gourami, so I'm still learning and dont want my poor girl getting hurt because of a mistake I made!
This is Soup's tank!
This is her two days ago, next to the driftwood she likes to sit underneath.
and this is her a few hours ago, inside of her rock hide. This was the best clear picture I could get that showed her stripe.
Thank you anyone who can offer help/advice!!