My first ever tank!

Can't 100% say for the bloated honey. I did have my lone female become egg-bound once or twice. She was built like a blimp :lol:
 
I noticed a small scratch? on her right side, it can be seen when the light hits her right in on of her surfing.

She has always been in this 20 days pretty territorial, it's a 105L and there are 2 males and 2 female gourami (she is one of the females). The only change is that the males have started making their bubble nests but they don't go out of their zones to chase anymore, only if they get too close (the girls wanting to touch them with their feelers and the boys chasing them away and going back to the nests)

It's the first time she has glass surfed (that panel is covered with black acrylic on the outside so it's the most I can do. She is surfing for like 5 minutes and then stops, strolls a bit the rest of the tank and goes in again.

She almost always does a similar pathing too, back, front, back, front, down, up and repeat. The first time she went down she scratched quickly against the sand, but I havne't seen any external parasytes and her belly and feces look good, maybe just stress that's come in late?
The other 3 seem to be doing fine but she is the only wild honey and I had another wild honey taht suddenly dies overnight while seeming otherwise healthy and active :(

People are telling me my male is super aggresive and that she is doing that and is super pale because she is stressed, they told me to rehome one of my males at least (I'm really atached I'd hate to let them go) or to "destress the situation" but idk how they want me to, I have a lot of plants and I'm buying some rotala indica to make even more barriers 😭
I thought she was "pale" because she was a wild type, I don't see her too different than when she came?
I checked now at night a bit and she was at the front of the tank just chilling and the male was like on the other side of the tank chilling too, so doesn't look like there's much overnight aggresion...
There are many times where I can't even see her because she is hiding on the back so I don't know how to make more hiding spots?

Any advice is welcome :(
 

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Can't 100% say for the bloated honey. I did have my lone female become egg-bound once or twice. She was built like a blimp :lol:
On a more positive note, I've seen one of my males, Kira (the one that attacks the new female, Miel on the vid in my previous comment) do the nuptial hug or however you call it with my other female Sol!when I noticed and got my phone ready to record they had already separated, there were no eggs (expected as she isn't as bloated as before and they are both first timers) and there was also no aggresion or chasing, they just went back to swimming and guarding the nest respectively!
 

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