super gouramis

[drake53]

*thumbsups I have a male (red fire) dwarf gourami and my moms friend has a female and im going to buy it. Can they mate?

 

[ladymaiden]

Is the female a dwarf? You do realize that they are egg-layers? Not that it is a big deal, but I was just curious.


Ladymaiden

 

[drake53]

yes it is!

 

[CAPSLOCK]

They can mate... look up how to breed bettas because it is similar except not as violent. The fry are really hard to raise, and most any fish will eat them.

 

[drake53]

but once they hatch and become free swimming can I put them in a breeding net

 

[drake53]

um hello!!!!!!!!

 

[MissFishy]

No, they will be too tiny and fragile. The eggs will likely be eaten long before they hatch if they are in a community tank. Since they are egglayers you'll also need specialized food for the fry. Unless you have experience with this, I wouldn't bother trying.

 

[drake53]

okay but i have experiance in live bearers espesically guppies

 

[MissFishy]

You don't have "experience" until you've successfully raised all of the fry, and if I'm not mistaken, your fry were just born...

Egg layers are much harder to raise as the eggs can be easily eaten and the fry are almost microscopic. You do need special food to raise the fry.

 

[drake53]

actually I feed my crushed brineshrimp. is that ok

 

[GeraldTheMouse]

No, you need LIVE baby brine shrimp. You obviously aren't up for the challenge of breeding them.

 

[drake53]

well actually there frozen they look crushed

 

[Lotus]

I think even newly hatched baby brine shrimp are too big for newly hatched gouramis. I think you need to go smaller... microworms probably.

 

[MissFishy]

Frozen brine shrimp are fine for livebearer fry such as guppies. However, with egglayers, you will need microworms or even infusoria. You will also have to set up a brine shrimp hatchery to hatch live shrimp.

 

[drake53]

ok so buy brine shrimp eggs and start some hatcherys before putting together male and female.

 

[MissFishy]

You need to read up on breeding gouramis. You can't keep the male and female together and you'd really need a seperate tank to breed them as they're egg layers and the other fish in your tank would most likely eat the eggs. The male might also get territorial. I would try your breeding with livebearers first, if you can get through that, you can explore other species.

 

[drake53]

I've been through breeding two livebearers already and have a pregnant platy

 

[MissFishy]

Getting your fish to have babies and actually raising the babies to adulthood are two different things...

 

[drake53]

I know that.