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Gourami staying at top of tank

pinchylarue

  • #1
just wondering if this is normal -

got viii tiger barbs and 1 opaline gourami yesterday and the gourami likes to stay near the top of the tank backside my filter pump..

merely wondering if this is normal because I call up they are supposed to be a bottom type...

did h2o tests and everything is a-ok so h2o quality can be ruled out
is he just shy and needs time to get used to his new surround? or might he be sick?

additional information: barbs don't nip at gourami they nip at eachother because I got more than 5 of them so I'1000 not certain what's incorrect if anything...

thanks in advance
josh

Jaysee

  • #ii
Gouramis are not bottom dwellers. They may swim all over the tank, just they always render to the top.

Getting more tiger barbs does not ensure safety for your other fish.

Yes, gouramis tend to exist shy while they are getting comfortable in their new habitation. It takes anywhere from a 2 weeks to a few months for fish to settle into a tank, depending on the species, so information technology's too shortly to be questioning their behavior.

The gourami is using the filter intake as embrace. This could be for a few reasons. First, it's new and being shy. Too, there may not be plenty decor/plants in the tank. Another reason could exist because of the tiger barbs. They don't demand to be nipping the fish to stress them out. For some fish, the threat is enough for them to succumb to sickness.

catsma_97504

  • #iii
Gourami are heart to height dwellers. So, unless he appears to exist gasping for air at the surface, his location would not point an issue.

As yous merely added them, keep a watchful eye. Something is stressing the fish if all he does is hibernate. If information technology'south his new environment, this will dissipate.

pinchylarue

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  • #4
ok cheers for the replys and so much guys !!!

I remember hes just a chip shy just probably feels nearly comfortable with shelter..
should I buy like a waterlilly type floating plant for him?
would this make him feel a fleck ameliorate?

Jaysee

  • #v
I would become some plants (existent or fake) that reach the surface and put them in the back corners of the tank. This will give it a lilliputian private space.

Hither is what I am talking almost.

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pinchylarue

  • Thread Starter
  • #6
wow what a beautiful tank !!!
I will do that asap and post pictures

MizRamzi

  • #7
Personally I wouldn't keep TB's with Groumi's.

Jaysee

  • #8
wow what a beautiful tank !!!
I will do that asap and post pictures

Thanks I attain such luscious plants past using fakes

pinchylarue

  • Thread Starter
  • #9
very dainty can't believe those are fake plants hahah
how do gouramis eat will he come running if I toss some food in there?
just wanna make sure hes doing okay

MindTravel3r

  • #ten
My Pearl Gourami is a very hardy eater. She is the offset one to the surface if I put flakes in the tank, and she is all over the tank when I put in sinking nutrient such as bloodworms.

Kunsthure

  • #11
My opaline gourami is irksome every bit she eats compared to my pirhana-similar gold barbs and diamond tetras, but she gets plenty. I make sure I sprinkle food all over the tank so the barbs and tetras tin can go all Shark Week on the food on one side and the platys, Molly and gourami swallow politely on the other. Simply she's not shy past any means. I'thou non sure how she was at showtime because she was in a QT alone, and then no i to hide from. Merely it took her a day or 2 before she'd come up to the side of the tank and change colors when I'd walk near it.

I would hesitate to keep tiger barbs with any gourami. The barbs are and then hyper and nippy, that even if they weren't directly attacking the gourami, they'd at least exist stressing it out.

-Lisa

kaleen

  • #12
I take a 55 gallon tank with 15 neon tetras, five panda corydoras, ane dwarf gourami, i juvenile electric blue acara & 2 very fiddling clown loaches (I plan on selling or rehoming them once they get as well large for my tank).

My gourami swims most the peak a lot. Non sure if this is normal. I'll come up to the tank & he'll just exist spooky near the top with the top of his head kind of out of the water. He's non gasping, he's only sitting there. He eats fine although he misses the flakes a lot. Otherwise very good for you fish only the swimming near the top is concerning me.

I recently (today really) had 2 deaths in this tank. The first 2 equally a matter of fact. 1 of the tetras (I had sixteen now 15), & one of the corydoras (I had vi at present v). I'm pretty sure the acara got to that neon & killed it, so I plan on rehoming the tetras very presently so that doesn't happen again. I'm non certain what happened to the cory. I call back just a bad i out of the agglomeration, not very salubrious. The rest of the corys & tetras are all perfectly healthy. No abnormalities, they all eat fine & have huge appetites.

One of the clown loaches is specially active during the 24-hour interval, & the other one I very rarely see. This is odd to me just non very concerning.

At present that I've spilled every concern I take about my tank what could exist up with the gourami? The EBA & the gourami become along merely fine, no fights fifty-fifty at feeding fourth dimension, and so I doubt the EBA is stressing him out. Is information technology normal for gouramis to hang out at the top?

Parameters
pH: 7.eight-8.0
Ammonia: 0
Nitrites: 0
Nitrates: 0-v

pH might be besides high, should I bring it downwards?

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MonsterGar

  • #13
Gouramis are generally top dwellers. Every bit long as it isn't gasping for or air at the surface or anything like that than it should be fine.

veggieshark

  • #fourteen
I would expect others to gulp for air before the gourami does if there was something wrong with water. Although it hanging out at the top is normal, it should exist swimming around ordinarily, with occasional swoop towards the lesser, etc, not with his nose outside all the time.

Nessaf

  • #15
Gouramis are labyrinth breathers meaning that they have the ability to gulp air from the surface in low oxygen environments. Every bit such, hanging at the surface is normal for them.

Aprilbeingbasic

  • #16
Labyrinth breathers. They will oft go to pinnacle to become a gulp of air. Wont mean much about your water. If they go upwards and stay up at that place gulping lots and then y'all might take a trouble.

kaleen

  • #17
I would expect others to gulp for air before the gourami does if there was something wrong with water. Although information technology hanging out at the top is normal, it should be swimming around normally, with occasional dive towards the lesser, etc, not with his nose outside all the time.
He comes downward occasionally but non often. Usually if he gets startled or just bored & wants to swim around
Labyrinth breathers. They volition often become to top to become a gulp of air. Wont mean much about your water. If they go up and stay up there gulping lots and so you might have a trouble.
I'll keep an middle on him for the adjacent few days & see how he does
I would expect others to gulp for air earlier the gourami does if there was something wrong with water. Although information technology hanging out at the top is normal, information technology should exist swimming around normally, with occasional dive towards the lesser, etc, non with his nose outside all the time.
That'south true, all the other fish are perfectly fine, especially the EBA.

jinjerJOSH22

  • #18
Hullo, like the others have mentioned Gourami have a specialized organ to breath at the surface. I would nonetheless keep an centre on the Acara, more so how the Gourami acts around it. It'southward not uncommon for a stressed fish to hang effectually the surface. The Blue Acara may be stressing the smaller Gourami by merely being present.

If you had some other aquarium you could endeavour moving the Gourami and give him a week without the Acara to see if his behavior changes.

kaleen

  • #19
Howdy, similar the others have mentioned Gourami have a specialized organ to breath at the surface. I would however keep an middle on the Acara, more so how the Gourami acts around information technology. Information technology's non uncommon for a stressed fish to hang around the surface. The Blue Acara may be stressing the smaller Gourami past simply being present.

If y'all had some other aquarium yous could endeavor moving the Gourami and give him a week without the Acara to see if his behavior changes.

I don't accept some other tank but I'll go along an centre on him & if the gourami'southward beliefs doesn't ameliorate I'll figure something out Cheers!

DoubleDutch

  • #twenty
Provide information technology with some floatingplants

kaleen

  • #21
Provide information technology with some floatingplants
Good idea cheers!

kaleen

  • #22
Howdy, like the others have mentioned Gourami have a specialized organ to breath at the surface. I would notwithstanding go along an centre on the Acara, more and so how the Gourami acts around it. It'due south not uncommon for a stressed fish to hang effectually the surface. The Blue Acara may exist stressing the smaller Gourami by simply being present.

If you had another aquarium you could try moving the Gourami and give him a week without the Acara to meet if his behavior changes.

With further observation I remember you might exist right. The gourami seems stressed out just by the Acara being in that location. He quickly swims away when the Acara gets close. I tin't move him correct now just in a few days I might exist able to effigy out a solution. I don't want to rehome him just if that's what I have to do so that's what I have to do.
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