So, after failing to keep 3 male Dwarf Gourami in my tank due to one of them being incredibly aggressive I have gone back to my original Plan A of Dwarf Neon Rainbows. These are much more community friendly fish and absolutely gorgeous as the iridescence varies with lighting levels around the tank.
After scouring my LFSs I managed to find 3 in one shop and 2 in another. I know they are happier in larger numbers and I fully intend to increase the group to 8 but I couldn't leave them in there with the chance that they would never find homes with suitable sized shoals!
So, they have settled and coloured up it
looks like I have 4 females and one male. They are too young for the body shape to help in deciding gender, but one of the smaller ones has very red fins and a slightly more lilac tinge to his body while the rest have much paler translucent yellow fins.
Every day at lunchtime the red one gets a little frisky and the gold stripe on top becomes very obvious. So definitely male. Today he was displaying to two of the yellow finned rainbows which isn't unusual but then I noticed that
they both had very bright gold stripes as well!!
I can find nothing on the internet about this, so has anybody here experienced either males with yellow fins, or females with golden stripes when getting ready to spawn?
I really want to know before picking up the remaining 3 fish so that the females don't finish up being outnumbered and harassed to death!
Thanks