beeky
Member
Hi all,
A fishy question for a planted forum coming up, but I trust you all!
For my sons tank he wanted dwarf gouramies and liked the blue form ones he saw. My wife went with him and bought a pair, although they were a pair of males. I'd heard dwarf gouramies weren't very robust these days and within a couple of months they were dead. To be honest, I wasn't overly surprised. After a week or so they squabbled and I separated them, putting one of them in my tank. They both died showing the same ulcer type wound within two weeks of each other.
We went out a few weeks later and bought a pair (again, two males) of red honey gouramis. I think some shops call them "red robins". They seemed to get on fine, but last week one died and now the other's died yesterday. They lasted about 2 months as well.
Now, as I said I'd heard dwarf gouramis weren't very healthy because of the inbreeding, but I haven't heard anything similar about the honeys. I supposed to get the colour forms they have to be inbred, but then so are loads of other fish.
In the tank there are also 4 neons and 5 pentazona barbs. They've been living happily since the tank was set up in October (filter seeded from mine), although two neons died a couple of days after being introduced. Barbs have been fine.
Any thoughts?
A fishy question for a planted forum coming up, but I trust you all!
For my sons tank he wanted dwarf gouramies and liked the blue form ones he saw. My wife went with him and bought a pair, although they were a pair of males. I'd heard dwarf gouramies weren't very robust these days and within a couple of months they were dead. To be honest, I wasn't overly surprised. After a week or so they squabbled and I separated them, putting one of them in my tank. They both died showing the same ulcer type wound within two weeks of each other.
We went out a few weeks later and bought a pair (again, two males) of red honey gouramis. I think some shops call them "red robins". They seemed to get on fine, but last week one died and now the other's died yesterday. They lasted about 2 months as well.
Now, as I said I'd heard dwarf gouramis weren't very healthy because of the inbreeding, but I haven't heard anything similar about the honeys. I supposed to get the colour forms they have to be inbred, but then so are loads of other fish.
In the tank there are also 4 neons and 5 pentazona barbs. They've been living happily since the tank was set up in October (filter seeded from mine), although two neons died a couple of days after being introduced. Barbs have been fine.
Any thoughts?