Gourami trouble!

[Ryuu]

Sorry, ok well I habe two three spoted gouramis, Ottis Sr., is the oldest and he is about four years old, he is also the largest, second is Ottis Jr. he is aobut half a year old and he is medium sized, then I have the two gouramis I rescued yesterday, one neon blue dwarf gourami, he is about 5-7cm and one flame dwarf gourami about 7-9cms, the problem is that Ottis Sr. is really territorial I guess and keeps chasing all the gouramis around, and then the flame dwarf keeps chaisng the neon blue dwarf, while Ottis jr. and the neon blue dwarf are shy and are acually friends (they follow eachother whereever the other one goes). Is there any way to get them to stop fighing without a divider? Additional information is in my signiture, yes I am aware of an overcrowded tank, but I coulndt let the LFS kill my rescues...

[Red]

you could upgrade :hmm3grin2orange:

[Lady Hobbs]

Remember my post yesterday that those fish might be going into the freezer due to aggression? Male gourami's together like this are ornery with one another. I bought 9 to put in my firemouth tank. Firemouths were fine with them but they sure weren't fine with each other.

I have to urge you at this time to tread very lightly. You can only add a couple fish at a time. Wait for a couple week then 2 more. You are adding too many new fish at once and is why you are experiencing that white water. The bacteria you had growing was OK to substain the fish you had in there but not a whole bunch more so advance slowly.

And you also added plants don't forget? When doing that planting, you stirred up the gravel and lost some of the bacteria doing that.

Get some bacteria booster at the fish store the next time there. Not CYCLE but Seacheams Stability or another product. Cycle appears not to do much of anything but who knows, it might be better than nothing?

[gm72]

You need a larger tank. That red tailed shark alone is going to be too large for your small 10 gallon. Overcrowding leads to problems, period.

[Ellen4God]

I agree with all of the above. You definitely need to upgrade to a bigger tank. Although you may have rescued the gourami from the freezer, you are putting them into a dangerous tank because of the crowding issues and such. Definitely get a larger tank, or see about getting some people to adopt your larger fish.

[Kaga's Kritters]

Your tank is pretty overstocked. I wouldn't keep the 3 spot gourami's in a tank that small. You really need to upgrade or rehome.

[Alexbet813]

looking at your profile is there anyway you can move things around between your breeding tank or plant tank? even if they arent the biggest it will help with the overcrowding, territory issues, the stress, and the large bioload in your small tank.

[Ryuu]

ty for hte posts, and yes im really tryign to upgrade, unfortunatly I havent the funds right now... And my fry tank is the cloudy one not the main tank but yes ill fry to put all the guppies in my 2.5 g tank and maybe that will help, Im going to have to recycle it hto maybe

[Alexbet813]

theres alot of tricks around AC that could help you get the cycle done really fast if you have a cycled tank like switching filter media or some of the substrate hopefully everything works out:11: