question about gourami

[tetra11]

I got an opaline gourami about a week ago and he keeps making little bubbles on the water's surface but they dont stick to anything since there are no plants or anything floating at the top and I know that they are bubblenest makers when mating but since I only have one and its a male can it still make a bubble nest? or is it maybe sick?

[Chrona]

I got an opaline gourami about a week ago and he keeps making little bubbles on the water's surface but they dont stick to anything since there are no plants or anything floating at the top and I know that they are bubblenest makers when mating but since I only have one and its a male can it still make a bubble nest? or is it maybe sick?

Only males make the bubblenests, and they do so even if there are no females in the tank as a way of showing off. He just wants some female companionship ;)

[tetra11]

should I float some plastic plants or something for him to make the nest?

[Chrona]

Unless you are getting a female to breed them, I wouldn't bother. As long as there is some shelter from light in the tank, that's all gouramis need.

[tetra11]

ok thank you very much.

[Lady Hobbs]

I wasn't aware that gourami's build bubble nest. I had golds, moonlights, blues plus dwarfs and never had one building bubble anythings. :)

[cocoa_pleco]

labyrinths fish make bubblenests

[Chrona]

I wasn't aware that gourami's build bubble nest. I had golds, moonlights, blues plus dwarfs and never had one building bubble anythings. :)

Guess they weren't horny ;)

My gourami had a field day one day tearing up my dwarf hairgrass to make a nice mound of crud in one corner, lol

[cocoa_pleco]

Guess they weren't horny ;)




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[tetra11]

lol so if I planted live plants in my tank they are likely to be torn up by my gourami or is it only certain kind of plants?

[cocoa_pleco]

i have a dwarf gourami in my heavily planted 20g, and he doesnt touch any plants