Breeding the Beautiful Dwarf Gourami

Sexing

male dwarf Gouramis all variations of colors are bright, while the females of most color variations are relatively drab in appearance. However, Coral Blue Dwarf Gourami is an exception to that woman is too beautiful Coral blue and hardly inferior in color muškaraca.Jedna thing common to all variations of color is that males have some red on them, while females have almost no red.

Breeding

It is extremely unlikely that dwarf Gouramis succeed in breeding and raising children with other fish in the aquarium. So you need to set up the tank specifically for their cultivation. Some people have succeeded in tanks as small as 20 liters (5 U.S. gallons), but I prefer a tank of at least 50 liters (13 gallons U.S. ).

temperature should be around 27 degrees C (81 ° F), and pH neutral or slightly kiselom.Tvrdoća must not be greater than 10 dH. Normal water level is lowered to about 20 centimeters (8 inches). Although I definitely recommend it, I also succeeded in breeding this fish much deeper water.

breeding tank should be well planted with different species of plants, including a floating one.

You should only have one male is present, but he can carry more than one wife.

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Dwarf Gourami is a bubble nest builder. Unlike most Gouramis, men usually involves some floating plants in their nest. As a whole the actual floating plants also may include bits of plants that has broken off and izgrizao.Gnijezdo is relatively large compared to the size of fish, as well as more elaborate than most gouramis.

Spawning

male will entice the female under the nest. They May have a few breeding suđenje.Muški wraps his body around the female, its rotation on its side or upside down, and he releases his sperm at the same time as it releases its eggs. Eggs that do not float up into the nest male will pick up from the mouth and put in the nest. One female can lay up to 800 eggs.

After spawning with one female, the male will entice one below the nest, and this may continue until he runs out of females ready to breed. Total spawning process can take several hours. After spawning the male will add another layer of bubbles on the bottom of the nest. He will defend the nest and jaja.Žene will have to be removed without disturbing the nest.

Raising Fry

eggs should hatch in 12-24 hours, and the FRY should be free swimming in about 3 days. It is safer for men to be removed after the fry are free swimming.

Dwarf Gourami fry are very small. Some people can not even see with the naked eye, so that the baby will need microscopic food for awhile. Often, the first foods to give them the green water. This is water with so many free-swimming algae that looks zeleno.Beba will grow and be able to eat more microscopic food, usually called infusoria. After some time they will be able to move on to higher food as recently hatched brine shrimp and Daphnia screened.

live food is best for babies, but it can be supplemented with commercial fry foods.

filter

filter is required, but a normal filter will suck up many babies. People have different ways of solving this problem. Some people put a thin cloth over the water enters the filter to stop fry being sucked in. My preferred solution is to use a sponge filter.