Male Gourami
Male gouramis are usually a bit smaller than the females and are slimmer in overall girth.
Male gourami. A shallow aquarium 4 to 6 inches 10 to 15 cm deep with a submersible heater a tight cover and no fish other than the dwarf gouramis works best. Females have a rounded belly compared to the males. The powder blue gourami is a colored variant of the trichogaster lalius.
Males were called trichopodus chuna and females were known as trichopodus sota. The male should be left in the breeding tank as it is the male s duty to care for the nest and fry until they can swim freely. The body is dotted with small alternating lines of blue red green and yellowish hues.
Male and female dwarf gourami. Gourami fish are perciform fishes belonging to the osphronemidae family although the term polyacanthidae is also used to refer to them. The dorsal and other fins are firm and extend almost to the caudal fin in both male and female dwarf gourami.
How can you tell if gourami is a male or a female. You can then introduce the male into the tank after several hours. Once you ve selected the best gourami female and male from the community you can now transfer them to the breeding tank.
A male with a nest will then court a female. Females are silvery with rounded dorsals. The honey gourami trichogaster chuna was first described in 1822 by hamilton and buchanan where mistook males and females for two distinct species.
More so it gets tricky when trying to do so for different species such as gouramis but when you know what to. Dwarf gourami lives in the waters of bengal and assam. It has an iridescent powder blue color with very faint vertical red stripes.
For species that do not form bubble nests remove both parents immediately after spawning to prevent egg predation. Male dwarf gourami build complicated bubble nests often incorporating floating plants into the structure. These fins are usually speckled or spotted.
They are similar to gourami and reach a size of 6 cm. The female paradise gourami is typically grey and red and they are larger and longer than males. Observe the gorami s fins.
This variant was developed by breeders to create a beautiful fish but other than its color it is very much the same as the dwarf. They are native to asia from pakistan and india to the malay archipelago and to the northeast towards korea. They are all now sitting under the name trichogaster.
Once the fry are free swimming the male also can be removed. However the dorsal top fin is the most distinctive difference that can be seen between males and females. It is however a skill required if you want to keep an aquarium successfully.
If you are a new aquarist you might get confused when distinguishing between males and female fishes.
