What are these honey gourami doing?!

[Shinyshiny054]

Can anyone explain this behaviour between 2 female honey gourami? Has the striped one been dumped by the male?! Seems like a bit of female solidarity going on, but is there actually something I should be worried about here?

 

[GaryE]

Unfortunately, the video format didn't work for me.

 

[Essjay]

The way videos are usally posted on the forum is by uploading them to a video hosting site such as YouTube, then posting the link on here.

 

[Back in the fold]

I saw the video okay . Looks to me like one of them wants the other to follow her around . A safety in numbers kind of thing . Not wanting to split up and risk mayhem .

 

[MaloK]

When one start lying on it's side it's a sign of submission...

Video is too short to get a good idea of what's going on, but I would go with intimidation.

How frequent is that comportment ? and How many males and females you have ?

 

[Shinyshiny054]

Well the one on top died. I thought if anything it would be the one with the stripe. So now I have one male, one female. The male has fry. Sorry about the video

 

[Back in the fold]

That’s a shame that the poor thing died . I like those , always have . But you say you have fry ? Raise them up and you’ll have your own nice tank raised ones .