My Blue three spot gourami fry / Blaue Fadenfisch Nachwuchs [1/2]

[tonytone604]

Wow such pretty success.

[delta9LouDog]

do gouramis need aquarium salt?

[UsernameHerePeople]

@delta9LouDog They're freshwater fish.....>_>

[delta9LouDog]

@UsernameHerePeople yes your point?



[UsernameHerePeople]

@delta9LouDog Freshwater fish generally don't need salt-I say generally because there are some that do better with it, I dunno why, they don't come from salty water........

Gouramis don't really need salt,to answer your question. I've kept mine for years without any.

[TheFirstFool]

@UsernameHerePeople True they don't need salt, but a little salt every now and then can help fight off basic infections that haven't taken full hold of the fish yet and epsom salts can help relieve constipation in fish (2 - 3 teaspoons per 5 gallons). Just don't create a salt bath in a small container and put your freshwater fish in it unless you are an experienced aquarist.

[seadawg2k]

i have 2 males and 1 female in a 10 gallon tank while i upgraded to a 55 gallon tank. i was surprised when the male started to build a bubble nest . i did not know it was a bubble nest until i looked up that they like to breed after the rainy season is over. apparently i unintentionaly simulated the rainy season with no heater, low water level (splash of the filter water return). then i simulated the end when i replaced the heater turned it up to 82F and refilled to top. 4 days l8r i get eggs.

[seadawg2k]

now i have 60+ fries swimming in the 10gal and i moved the parents out. i put duck weed on top because they like to hid in it. i feed them "first bites" powder food $4 and baby brine shrimp. i had to turn off the filter because it will suck them in, im waiting to get a sponge add on. i have to do water changes very often (3 days) as recommended by pet shop guy. so far so good.

[downbrowntown]

I have six gouramis :D 3yellow and 3blue

[cochinopepino]

And if i want them to breed do i put floating plants on the surface?

[cochinopepino]

I have 2 blue gourami fish one male and one female... so the male keeps on chasing the female away and they stay away from each other but sometimes are together but in a sec the male chases the female away... what should i do? and btw i have a female golden gourami and the male blue gourami chases it away too.. plz help me D:

[yannickTheGreat]

i have 2 gourami fish , 1 blue 1 orange . im confused your fish doesnt seem to be eating the fish but when i first noticed 1 of my fish gave birth i saw them eating them (the orange one) plus your fry fish are alot bigger then mines ?

[davekinda2000]

Hi I am just starting out , I have a 200ltr tank and upto noe I have 2 gold and 2 blue gourami,s, wot are good fish to add to these , I really like vibrant coloured fish and want them to be around the same size or a bit bigger thn the gourami,s,

thx 4 the help

[camrocksursox]

its amazing how they dont eat there babies i getting a new small tank for my room and im gonna put a pair of dwarf ones in there i wanna breed them but will they eat there babies

[josesweet]

and what are the small things in blue.. babies?

[SupaaaElissaaa235]

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[cantavoidtrite]

What happens if your pump makes ripples on the surface, is this bad for gouramis? And can I keep them with playful zebrafish and clown loaches? Thanks.

[magnusrulz]

can i squeeze the eggs out of the lady?? this is because, everytime they realease eggs then the lady comes and eats them. i dont have another aquarium so i was woundering if i could squeeze the eggs from the lady into a container and then put the lady back to the aquarium and leave the eggs in the container that has the same temperature as in the aquarium+?

[Roosterboii]

hey man, this is fantastic. Even the fry looks amazing! What lighting do you use? great tank btw.

[MrCatball]

I have a male Gourami about 4 years old now. I tried breeding him last year but no luck, the female didnt seem to want to, but my male seemed like he wanted to. If I got 2 more female gouramis and put them in the tank with him, will the chance of breeding be greater? And are fatter females better? Thanks

[n03lzz]

@MrCatball

If the tank is big enough so that the male and all the females can stay away from eachother: Yes, definitely. What i've heard of several breeder of gourami and other labyrinth fish... and from one's own experience: The males breed the best with the smallest an weakest females. If a female is a strong as the male or even bigger and stronger it will not accept the male as a partner. I think the male has to dominate the female.

[LiliFromHali]

@n03lzz lol, kinky.

[jstorly]

@n03lzz Well, THAT explains things. I have a big huge female who is more assertive than the male. No wonder they never spawn!

[KhmerHer0]

can blue three spot gouramis cross breed with gold gourmais?

[n03lzz]

@KhmerHer0

Yes, they can. But to be precise: It's no cross-breed because blue and gold gouramis are the same species. The golden ones are just an cultivated albino form.

[Caimingchang]

How do you differentiate between a female and a male Gourami?

[MrCatball]

@Caimingchang A female has a more rounded and stubby dorsal fin and is smaller than a male. The male will have a pointier dorsal fin and will tend to be longer and thinner :)

[n03lzz]

@MrCatball

Exactly. :D

[n03lzz]

@Caimingchang

What MrCatball said with my words:

Look at the dorsal fin. If it's rounded shaped and short it's a female. If it's long and nearly reaches the tailfin with a sharp tip: It's a male.

[mjallo100]

why do your gourami not eat his children

Sorry my bad english

[n03lzz]

@mjallo100

Why should he do that? Do you eat your children? ;)

[morbiddawg]

Three spots are very easy to catch here , and the rainy season is finally here, yay!

[n03lzz]

@morbiddawg

Are you able to give us some biotope-videos (maybe underwater footage) of the places where you catch them? That would be so awesome.

[whatscrakn101]

are gouramis easy too breed

[n03lzz]

@whatscrakn101

But their fry is not as easy to feed as most cichlid frys. They are very very small and need ultra-fine food.

[yomonstruo]

i have a pair of blue gouramis.they live in a 35 gal tank,is it enought for them to breed??they are still young and male pursues the female sometimes.how big do they need to get for breeding?

[n03lzz]

Yes, that might work. But the male will chase the female at any time. Even during the breeding time. Thats why the tank need very much plants that creats a territory for the male (at the surface) and enough hiding space for the female at the other side of the tank.

I think they start breeding at a size of about 5-6cm (2-2.5 inches)

[yomonstruo]

they behave just like you said.male stays always at the right side of the tank next to the heater and in the surface and the female goes at the oposite side.i have also a pleco and an old corydora in the same tank.can they stay in there?(i dont have other heater for them..)thanks

[n03lzz]

I think a pleco and a cory is ok. In your case i would try to plant a "wall" of jungle vals right in the middle of the tank. Jungle vals and duckweed is a good way to breed those fish.

[Antiks72]

3:04 hot bubble nest action

[n03lzz]

Yeah, right.^^

[josealachan]

hey my gouramis just matedand now I only have a few fish of the fry and I'm wondering if the rest of them got eaten by the parents, I dont know the fish fry hatched at night and I could not tell they were there since they were very much microscopic, anyway I managed to salvage like about 8 of them from being eaten, but I wanna know if they do eat their young and if that's likely to be my case and also will they spawn again and how of ten do they spawn? thankxs.

[n03lzz]

They spawn often, if you can hold up the conditions. The male guards the fry and chase away the female. It's very hard to feed the fry. The easiest way to raise them is a seperated, well planted, tank without other fish.

[blownable]

Infusoria is very easy to culture and makes excellent food for egglayers. I feed it to my black phantom tetra fry.

[n03lzz]

@blownable:

Well, thats right. I think i meant it's hard to feed them without culturing living food. I've read a article in which they said, that the fry of several labyrinth fish are too small to eat such living food either. They feed on microorganism which live in the tank. But i cannot prove it anymore.

[KingKelvin65936]

boah geil hab auch blau faden fische wie kann ich die den am besten züchten ? mfg kelvin

[n03lzz]

Dicht bepflanztes Becken. Platz für das territoriale Männchen und Rückzugsmöglichkeiten für das Weibchen. Am besten keine Beifische, die würden die Jungen fressen.

[pr10r1ty]

how are these things now????

[n03lzz]

Oh, i overlooked your first question. I didn't raised this fry. It was in my community tank and they didn't made it there.

[pr10r1ty]

ook, i see

[4k3el]

do frys eat micro organisms from the plants around them?

[n03lzz]

In nature they eat microorganisms, yes. But in fish tanks, they need additional food.

[4k3el]

cool thank. i recently bred my zebra fish and i had a lot of plants in the tank and they grew much faster compared to my last attempt with no plants.

[pr10r1ty]

how are the fry these days?

[mattthefishlover]

i was told to seperate freeswiming fry from the male

[n03lzz]

It won't do any harm to do that... I watched my male guarding it's fry, but they are also free-swimming very fast. They don't survive long in a community tank.

[peka400]

hey i have some gouramis that i wish to breed, but i have some problems. the male one (being a gold gourami) keeps attacking its potential mate, chasing it, biting its tail. im no expert but this doesnt seem like normal breeding behaviour. u seem like you know what ur doing with urs to get them to breed so i was wondering if u could give me a few pointers on breeding them, cheers Andrew

[n03lzz]

That's the normal breeding behaviour. The male become very territorial and doesn't accept the female there. He will keep on doing that, even during the act of mating (watch my other video: "Very rare footage: Mating Blue three spot gouramis / Blaue Fadenfisch Paarung [2/2]" or /watch?v=6uJHKH0cJmc . The best thing is to use big plants or driftwood to seperate a territory at the water surface and to build a place where the female can hide.

[jaill2hell]

hi id like to ask somthing if u dont mind how old have to be a gurami to be abeel to breed ? more then 3 years like gold fish or about 6 or 7 moths like bettas?

ths for ur help

[mattthefishlover]

well they are in the same family as betta.

[n03lzz]

I know that it also depends on the female, young males don't breed with bigger females, because they have to dominate them. This breeding male is my own breed, indeed. But it got the first chance to breed after 2 years. So i can't help you out.

[dannyelpetachen]

what did you do with all the fry that survived, what i mean is that ..O.o thats alot of fish =p

[n03lzz]

If you decide to hatch fish, you have to think about how you get "rid of" them. I bring mine to a petshop, and get fish food, gift coupon or money for them. I also ask my fish-keeping friends if they would take some. (The same with: snails, shrimp and plants)

[tcfuturevet]

so you can leave him with the fry once they are free swimming

[n03lzz]

Yes, he guards his territory and the fry. But it only took about a week till the fry is spread over the whole tank. Than they are on their own.

[Ragerout]

Awesome video....what plant did you use as cover and what did they need to initiate the bubble nest? one more question, was the male laways chasing the female prior?

[n03lzz]

I use Lemna minor (Common Duckweed) to cover the water surface. My gourami only initiate a bubble nest if there is absolutly no water movement at the surface and if it's nearly completely covered with duckweed. My males never accept the females in their territory. If they build the bubble nest they guard it even more.

[purx3ranger]

hey can u give me a guide in to breeding them cuz i got one and might wanna get a female (i think mines a male) so i well be happy if u can tell me how to

thank u

[n03lzz]

If the dorsal fin is short and round, it's a female. If it's long and reaches the tailfin (like the fish in this video) it's a male.

You need a well planted tank, without strong movements at the water surfavce. Ideal is much duckweed [Lemna minor]. And the female needs several hiding places.

[purx3ranger]

oo that sounds easy! i got male yep lol might bbuy another once me get a bigger tank my tank to small lol but thanks

[n03lzz]

If they feel fine they reproduce easy. It's harder to raise the fry.

[purx3ranger]

ooo okay i might try to breed convicts soon

[n03lzz]

Breeding convicts isn't so difficult... The problem is that the breeding pair will dominate the whole tank and they might kill all the other fish in it (if the tank isn't big enough).

[purx3ranger]

yeah i now u think i can breed them in a 10 gallon by them selfs with a pot(clay) and few live plants?

[purx3ranger]

u think i can put a breeding pare of convicts in a nice clean 10 gallon with heater filter and air pump by them selfs?

and yes with pot and few live plants?

plzz reply

[n03lzz]

I've no experience in breeding convicts. But 10 gallon sounds a bit small. There can be aggressions between the fish, even if they are a breeding pair in a bigger tank. And if the female doesn't have the chance to hide, the male can kill it.

[purx3ranger]

lol atm in my 10 gal i got one kissing and one blue gorimas and there best friends they pimp with each other

[n03lzz]

Ok, youtube didn't tell me about this comment -.-

My Kissing gouramis and my Blue three spot gouramis just ignore each other.^^

[meteora360]

how du you feet the small fishes?

[n03lzz]

Powder food. That's kinda milled flake food.

[zodiac2nd]

hi, again. I told some people that I was going to get 3 blue gouramis for my 75 gallon 48" long community aquarium. 1 male, 2 females. But some people told me that they are aggressive with each other. They told me to only have 1. But I noticed that you have 6 or something. Do they do alright?

thank you.

[n03lzz]

My two males have both their own territory in the opposite corners of my tank. They stay there and don't fight against each other. The females stay in the middle of the tank. There is one dominant female that chases the others a bit, but not very aggressive.

I would say: In a good planted and structured tank you will have absolutly no problems with one male and two females. They are a lot less aggressive than any cichlid or something.

[gregt8]

any fish can be agressive ive got 3 in my 75 gal 2 female 1 male and there fine its when people put them in a small tank or maby 2 males will fight but hey a 75 gal!! its a big tank they will have plenty of space

[467119394]

cool!! how do u differentiate between da males and da females??

[n03lzz]

The easiest way is to look at their dorsal fin.

Females got a short and round fin.

If it's long and reaches the tailfin, it's a male.

[467119394]

even when they are young??

[n03lzz]

I'm not sure whats the minimum size to recognize the gender difference.

[467119394]

owh.. alright then... thanks alot!!

[n03lzz]

The male that you can see in this video is breed in a community tank. But this was just a matter of luck. The fry won't survive in a tank with barbs or something.

[sherozo]

Wow thats really amazing..i had tried to record that myself when my Gourami couple where spawining... but they where very shy and they stop doing anything if they watch me :(

any tips why?

[n03lzz]

I just was lucky. Maybe you can hide yourself under a black cover.

Have you seen my other video "Very rare footage: Mating Blue three spot gouramis / Blaue Fadenfisch Paarung [2/2]" ?

[N0zProductions]

cool i only bred goldfish, guppies, mollies

cats and frogs and newts lol

[n03lzz]

I forgot: Sri Lanka dwarfshrimp, Red-rimmed melania, Edible Frog, European Common Brown Frog and European Toad ^^

[N0zProductions]

wow ! lol

[patrickstar1234]

So many fries, so cute !

[n03lzz]

YES THEY ARE =)

[N0zProductions]

did you breed them ? and are you good at breeding fish?

[n03lzz]

Up to now, i have bred:

goldfish and gudgeons in my pond

kribensis, blue acara, blue three spot gourami, paradise gouramis, Bristle-nose catfish and of course guppys in my tanks.

But i always had a very hard time to find a new home for my breed. So i don't know if i should seperate them.

It's the fourth offspring in the last two month, and a few, by now bigger, juvenile gouramis are hiding in my plants.

[eirtyp]

Wow, tolles Video.

Wie viele Jungfische sind das etwa?

[n03lzz]

Danke!

Und es sind auf jedenfall weit mehr als 60. ^^