Tropical Fish Forum
Tropical Fish Keeping Help and Advice => Fish Health => Topic started by: Dylan5084 on February 25, 2016, 05:27:37 PM
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just out the blue one of my indian gouramis has died... no warning signs or nothing, my water reading are all good, ive had 6 of them for about 5 months, they kinda bicker but nothing too rash, could it have been just stress? i have a peaceful tank
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What is the gender ratio of the 6, and was the one that died male or female?
I know that with some species of gouramis, males can be very territorial (ie bully weaker males to death) and very insistent about breeding (harass females to death if there aren't enough females to spread the males' attentions round). But I don't know enough about Indian gouramis to say if they are one of the more aggressive species.
Seriously Fish does comment that "This is not a very vigorous species" and that it should be kept with "inoffensive species". What is in the tank with them?
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was 3 males 3 females, dead male, my tank looks really peaceful, nothing aggressive at all in my tank, i did notice the male was hiding alot maybe was being bullied into hiding?
ive got 4 clown loaches 2 silver dollars 1 male guppy 1 black molly 10 neon tetras a golden nugget plec 1 bristle nosed plec 5 xray tetras 2 male swordtails 5 otocinclus 5bloodfin tetras 8 julli corys 1 peacock goby 4 female swordtails and 5 indian gouramis now
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It does sound as though the weakest fish was bullied to death, I'm afraid.
The other fish shouldn't cause any problems, with the possible exception of the male swordtails, which can be aggressive, though that's mainly towards each other.
If things are peaceful at the moment, I would leave the gourami numbers as they are.