Full Grown Moonlight Gourami
The moonlight or moonshine gourami is another peaceful and non demanding fish.
Full grown moonlight gourami. Moonlight gourami trichopodus microlepis. 4 inches 10 cm lifespan. The moonlight gourami is a small fish and will usually grow to a maximum of 5 inches 13 cm in the home aquarium.
Hence the name kissing gourami. Licorice gouramis are tiny. Full grown they don t reach more than 1 5 inches 3 8 cm.
4 years minimum tank size. 5 to 35 dgh temperature. Moonlight gourami trichogaster microlepis.
Generally peaceful with similar sized fish blue gouramis are possibly the most. Banded gourami also known as rainbow gouramis the banded gouramis are sturdy fish that prefer eating vegetable matter. It has a silvery white color with a slight yellowish ans or blueish green hue.
Moonlight gourami or moonbeam gourami trichogaster microlepis. Some gourami fish can grow up to 6 inches long and it should take the fish around 1 2 years to grow to its full size. It s not unusual for one to live 4 years or more in the home aquarium and there have been some unconfirmed reports of them living past 6 years though 5 years is far more realistic.
Defender regina scientific name. It ll present a challenge to keep water conditions precise but it makes them perfect for a nano aquarium. They are very peaceful and relatively shy.
They are more delicate to ammonia and nitrate nitrite problems than most other gouramis and sadly i lost two of them in this way. The trio i had actually schooled together despite the fact they were all fully grown. 6 0 to 8 8 hardness.
This is a shy peaceful calm and territorial species. As they mature their body has a slight green coloring and the males develop an orangey red color in their pelvic and dorsal fin. Gourami fish full growth size.
That six inches is a very large one and i ve never even seen one that big but they can grow up to that size technically stating. Just don t let water quality slip they re highly sensitive. Trichogaster microlepis moonlight gourami one of the most peaceful gouramis.
The trichogaster microlepis also known as moonbream gourami lives in vietnam thailand borneo sumatra laos and malaysia in rivers like the mekong. Three spot gourami opaline gourami cosby gourami golden gourami silver gourami adult size. Moonlight gourami these fishes are arguably the shyest members of the gourami family.
Trichogaster trichopterus also known as. Also known as trichogaster microlepis these fish have origins in both asia and colombia. Kissing gourami with this species males snap their mouths together when duelling.
Moonlight gourami trichogaster microlepis the moonlight is a beautiful fish.
