Honey gourami is a motley motley fish characterized by endurance and a peace-loving character. This is the smallest representative of his "clan", but the brightest. The habitats of the gourami are Bangladesh and India.
These fish with an oval-shaped body flattened on each side inhabit ponds and lakes, rivers, and even the waters of flooded fields. They adore reservoirs with dense vegetation, with absent or slowed flow, with soft water. The color of males is brighter than females.
Nature painted the body of a male fish with a gourami in tan, especially bright during spawning periods. At this time, their color becomes orange-red or brown-honey, which gave rise to the name fish. Along the entire length of the body is an oblique and wide black and blue strip. The dorsal fin is bordered by a yellow stripe. The ventral fin rays become orange or red. It is found in nature by gourami of red color, this is the result of the crossing of colise lyabiosis and honey gourami.
Behavior
This peaceful baby is very shy. At the first sign of danger, takes refuge in dense vegetation. It gets along well with other calm and small representatives of the water element. Honey spends most of the time with gourami in the upper and middle water column.
Content
The aquarium is taken at 50 liters or more based on two pairs of individuals. There should be a place where there are no living thickets. It is better to take the soil dark, and make the lighting weak. Gourami fish breathe atmospheric air, so it should always be warm. To do this, cover the aquarium. The presence of filtration, aeration, and the replacement of most of the water once a week are mandatory. Temperature - from 22 to 28 degrees.
Gourami are small in size, so they prefer to eat small bloodworms, daphnia, dry mosquitoes and insect larvae. You can use cereals with herbal ingredients as biological additives.
Honey gourami: breeding
It is not easy to breed with gourami; young individuals often get sick and become infected with parasites. A small aquarium, 10 liters, is enough for a couple to spawn. But spawning is also possible in a general aquarium. It will be less to save the fry, but for the female it is more useful. In the place of spawning should be sufficient vegetation and fresh water. Mandatory floating algae (e.g. duckweed). The male makes a nest and starts spawning. Fertility - 300 eggs, or even less. When everything is done, the female is removed from the aquarium.
About two days the male takes care of the eggs, then fry appear. Now the male is removed from the aquarium. The water level is left in the region of 5-10 cm and begin to feed the fry. Infants cater for babies; you can give an egg yolk. After two weeks of life, rotifers and nauplii of crustaceans are added to the diet. Puberty in fry occurs at the age of six months.
Honey gourami: neighbors
A good neighborhood will turn out with neon, tetra, Danio Hopra, parsing, cardinals, guppies, glass catfish, large shrimp, barbs, iris. As you can see, the aquarium will turn out to be very beautiful in color and varied species in terms of population.