My Gourami Problems

hi all, recap of my sad pearl gourami journey with a what should I do now question.

Stared off with 3 back in April and the male was bullying one in particular, got another 3 females in August and you might remember one was really poorly right off and died pretty much as soon as it went into the hospital tank. At the beginning of Nov another female got damaged on it's side and fins, thought it was recovering then it went downhill and died a couple of days after going in hospital tank. Then at the beginning of Dec noticed the male was really skinny and yeah hate to say it but died in hospital tank again after a few days. Everything settled down, but one of the females looked a bit sad with a droopy tail fin, was going to try the hospital tank again, but found her dead 2 days ago 

So now left with one big female and one small female and looks like the bigger one is harassing the smaller one. I though they'd be OK as both female but really worried the wee one will now get stressed to death (assuming that is possible?) as she hides away apart from at feeding time.

Water parameters are always OK and doing 50% water changes, the only other fish that have died was a couple of 5 band bard and two corys, the harlies and rummy nose are still at the original numbers.

It's kind of stressed me out a bit, and left me not knowing what's the best thing to do. 

Advice welcome as always.

Lynne

yeah I think the smaller one might be OK, she still comes out from time to time, just gets chased back.  Do I just see if the pet shop will take the bigger one back? not sure how else would I rehome is there a site I should post on?

Ta

cheers sue will try shops first.

Thanks again

I must admit I've never had success with gourami. I've had honies twice and they've always bullied each other. The one I have remaining now bullies the blue rams too, one of which is starting too look quite poorly so I might have to do some rehomimg too...

I've also kept sparkling gourami. They were much more peaceful but also a bit "flakey", possibly my water was a bit hard for them i think, though I never saw any signs of dropsy...

Anyways my sympathies to your situation. Hope you find a store willing to take one of your two and things become more pearl in your tank   

Sorry to read of your gourami problems.

Another potential option for you is http://www.centralaquaristsociety.co.uk/ - they seem to be quite active and might have members willing to take on a pearl gourami; best of luck.

Glad to hear that your LFS will take the gourami back, and I hope that this resolves the situation.

hi @fcmf not sure how I missed your message  but things have progressed in a good way.

I was going to take bully back but it started to look like they were getting on better. So left it for a bit and yeah they look like they are getting on much better now, the wee one still get's chased but mainly when there is food on the go (which I think is probably noramlish?) and she swims about on her own and doesn't sit under the roots all the time like she was doing.

So I've left them both for now, I know I can't really tell, but she doesn't look so sad anymore