Powder Blue Gourami
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.
Powder blue gourami. The female powder blue dwarf gourami is a plain tan colored creature that breeds with any of the male colisa lalia dwarf gourami varieties. The other blue gourami was really peaceful and calm and the pecking order seemed to be pretty obvious but no aggression. To keep a good balance give them a quality flake or pellet food as the base to the diet.
The powder blue dwarf gourami is an omnivore and will generally eat all kinds of live fresh and flake foods. It has an iridescent powder blue color with very faint vertical red stripes. The powder blue dwarf gourami is a facultative air breather meaning it comes to the surface to breathe during naturally anoxic without oxygen periods that stagnant bodies of water sometimes undergo.
But yesterday and today didn t eat at all just laying at the bottom and having problems. The betta was fine then a day or two later the orange gourami seemed to just bug him a lot and chase him around a bit no biting or nipping or touching just the quick swim by with some attitude. Supplement this with live foods such as white worms blood worms brine shrimp or any other suitable substitute.
The powder blue dwarf gourami will maintain a mostly passive nature as they reach maturation and will make an ideal companion for a peaceful. It is native to india pakistan and bangladesh though in recent years it has become established through releases and escapes in australia columbia and the united. Dwarf powder blue gourami bloated belly.
One of the smallest of the gourami family this species is well suited for community. It s a good suggestion to maintain just a female powder blue dwarf gourami with a college of males. I monitored it for a day or two but unfortunately that was too much time to avoid losing a cory two cardinals and my dwarf gourami.
They have a labyrinth organ which is part of the fish allowing it to absorb atmospheric oxygen into the blood directly. The powder blue gourami is a colored variant of the trichogaster lalius. 2 inches 5 cm lifespan.
4 to 10 dgh. The female powder blue dwarf gourami. I have a dwarf powder blue gourami that has a bloated belly for the past 5 days.
The powder blue acted completely aggressively from the first moment it was introduced. The powder blue dwarf gourami is the attractive colour morph of the dwarf gourami. The powder blue gourami is a peaceful shy and hardy fish that is a suitable choice for the beginner aquarist.
72 to 82 f 22 to 28 c. By joey86 4 years ago on tropical fish. The dwarf gourami trichogaster lalius also known as the powder blue dwarf gourami is a small fish that remains one of the most popular gouramis available in the aquarium trade.
At the first 2 days was still eating. Peaceful best kept with other smaller fish.
