Female Gold Gourami
She is very fat and full of eggs.
Female gold gourami. Within the male the dorsal fin is lengthy and pointed whereas the females are shorter and rounded. The other gold female looks like the male opaline. I have a similar situation.
The female paradise gourami is typically grey and red and they are larger and longer than males. 1 gold gourami 1 blue gourami 6 rummy nose terta 1 red fin shark i was thinking of taking the gold one back and getting another female blue. You can also feed them live foods and some fresh veggies like chopped lettuce or cucumber for a few days.
At breeding time the male becomes vibrant and much darker than the female. Gold gourami trichogaster trichopterus along with other mutations are a color variant of three spot gourami trichopodus trichopterus that were developed for tropical fish keeping enthusiasts during the 1970s. But primarily the female.
The three spot gourami trichopodus trichopterus previously trichogaster trichopterus was described by pallas in 1770. I think that maybe there may be eggs if there are any at all in a hallowed out log feature in my tank. I have a 6 inch plecostamus that usually stays in there all day.
I have this female gold gouramis that is all ways being aggressive towards the other gouramis. But it s the female that s being. Also i know that gourami s tend to make bubble nests but i have a bubble wall going along the entire back wall of my 55 gallon tank.
One of the best ways to distinguish between the female and male gold gourami is by the dorsal fin. It was further mutated into the opaline gourami marbled gourami and the silver colored platinum gourami which also appeared during the 70s. These fins are usually speckled or spotted.
The gold gourami is a captive bred color morph of the three spot gourami that first appeared in the aquarium industry in 1970. The gold gourami is a color variant of the blue gourami that exhibits brilliant gold orange and yellow coloration. My gold gourami chases everyone around but mostly bothers the blue gourami.
They have this black like strips like you would see on a tiger. Now i read somewhere that you should only have 1 male in the tank and i do. Gold gourami are also known to tropical fish keeping enthusiasts as the crosby gourami after the breeder who developed the morph.
It is found widespread throughout continental southeast asia and indonesia. The female blue gourami in prime breeding condition will look she ate a golf ball. If your gourami is a gold blue or opaline variety the males will exhibit rings around their spots.
I have another female gold gourami and a male opaline gourami i don t. When able to breed the male builds a bubble nest after which begins to entice the feminine by swimming forwards and backward flaring his fins and elevating his tail. He won t even let her out of her hiding space.
I believe the female gold gourami is pregnant. Lately the male blue gourami has been sitting inside the log just chillin. Observe the gorami s fins.
