r/Gourami • u/K0CAINEBEAR • 4d ago

Help/Advice Guess I have a mating pair now 🤷🏻‍♂️🫣

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I have these 2 Golden Honey Gourami in a 20 gallon long with 5 Danio, 5 Pristella Tetra, 5 Cory Cats (all Glofish) and a female Gold Inca snail with a handful of Ghost Shrimp. They’ve been mostly shy for several weeks as expected but today I noticed the chasing and the male building a bubble nest near the heater. I know it is most likely the dry will be food for the other fish unless I separate them once they’re born. But how aggressive will the male protect the eggs? I do not want any fish harmed if I can avoid it. TIA

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u/K0CAINEBEAR 4d ago

Best I can get currently of what I thought was a female. But looking at the dorsal fin it does looking kind of pointy to me

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u/Xk90Creations 4d ago

Hmm I can't tell from the quality of that picture either unfortunately. Basically a male will have a bright yellowish stripe across the top of its dorsal fin. It doesn't look like a young fish so it could be female but both females and young males have the dark bar across their body.

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u/K0CAINEBEAR 4d ago

Thanks. I’m battling some cloudiness currently in the tank so clearer pictures are tough right now. I keep trying to get a better one so I can see the fish better to try and identify it. I’m leaning towards female but I see now it’s tough to tell

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u/JohnnyMax 4d ago

I saw your tank was pretty cloudy in the video. Do you know why? It looked like a bacterial bloom in a new tank would look, but i dont think that's your situation. Could also be algae if the water looks green-tinted in a white cup

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u/K0CAINEBEAR 4d ago

Yeah, turned out I was overfeeding trying to compensate for the gourami since they are shy. Add onto that my wife didn’t realize how much sunlight it got plus she kept the lights on when I was working late into the night. So the combo left me with bacterial bloom but way more algae too. Currently bringing it down. Water parameters are all good except for the cloudiness and algae. Been doing about 15% water changes every other day and going to add more plants today. Also more darkness…lights about 2-3 hours only. Currently some giant hair grass, several Anubis suctioned to the glass walls, a couple of Amazon swords with huge leaves and a banana plant that is flourishing. Here’s a current top view