Dominus_XVIII
Fish Crazy
Just received my package of 12 pygmy gouramis, upon opening the box I discovered they were DOA, as the bag felt cold as ice (due to the crazy Canadian winter here), the fish were stiff and pale as well as their mouths and gills wide opened .
At that point I just tossed the bag into my 20 gallon long and grabbed my cell, to call the store whom I bought them from, to notify them of a DOA.
Just as I was typing in the 2 last digits on the store's phone #, from the corner of my eye I saw movement. At first it was just 2 or 3 twitching, then they started wiggling before they shot up to the surface with their bodies vertical and their mouths at the surface. A few seconds later and the rest of them did the same. Slowly they taking breaths until their colours came back.
Once their colours came back, they sank back to the bottom of the bag lying flat as if they were dead again. 2 minutes past while their bag was drifting in the tank. One by one they slowly angled their bodies horizontally and started moving inch by inch, until they just started forming their school and swam around normally. Pretty cool, didn't know gouramis or even labyrinth fish could go that deep into hibernation.
Anyone else experience this with their pygmy gouramis?
At that point I just tossed the bag into my 20 gallon long and grabbed my cell, to call the store whom I bought them from, to notify them of a DOA.
Just as I was typing in the 2 last digits on the store's phone #, from the corner of my eye I saw movement. At first it was just 2 or 3 twitching, then they started wiggling before they shot up to the surface with their bodies vertical and their mouths at the surface. A few seconds later and the rest of them did the same. Slowly they taking breaths until their colours came back.
Once their colours came back, they sank back to the bottom of the bag lying flat as if they were dead again. 2 minutes past while their bag was drifting in the tank. One by one they slowly angled their bodies horizontally and started moving inch by inch, until they just started forming their school and swam around normally. Pretty cool, didn't know gouramis or even labyrinth fish could go that deep into hibernation.
Anyone else experience this with their pygmy gouramis?
