r/Gourami

hey yall, im genuinely at my wits end

this is my male pearl gourami, i got him last saturday. the first 5 days were fine, then i noticed him building a bubblenest. i destroyed it during a water change but noticed some eggs floating around, ever since then hes done nothing but be aggressive, he chases other fish, rips up surface plants, he tried some courting behavior (when he doesnt chase them like in the video) with the female pearls but they reject him im pretty sure

what the hell can i do about this? the stress from his chasing has already killed atleast of my rummy noses and all my fish now hide from him (and he now searches them out to chase them???????)

i dont have enough space for an appropriately sized timeout aquarium

parameters:

40gal

temp 24c

nh4 & no2 0

o2 10

no3 20

gh 8

kh 5

ph 7

thx

encontré estos en tiendas distintas bajo el nombre gourami gold pero no logro diferenciar cuál es realmente gourami

Sadly the ditch had a slight algae bloom (the green film at the surface).
But it didn’t seem to have an effect on the pearls as I caught at least 30-40 of them here!

I got a trio of pearl gouramis about 2 weeks ago, one male and 2 females, I saw the male making a bubble next about a week ago but I definitely wasn’t expecting to be a grandmother this quickly. I really have no idea what to do here, I definitely don’t have room for 100 new gouramis lol. Is there a way to rehouse them? Does anyone have experience with this

I've had Fred for a few months. I swear he has killed multiple females.

The difference between male and female is not that hard to determine. I've even opened up examples on my phone and the lfs person agreed that I was selecting females. Yet Fred has harassed everyone else to death.

Are some just very aggressive?

Hey guys, this is a video of my licorice gourami right after i added it to the tank(thats why it looks pretry stressed), i am pretty sure it is a p.sumatranus, would you guys agree?. Also can we confirm with this video if its a male or female?, i think in the video you can see it quickly flare at its reflex in the glass and i think we can see some red in its fins in the video?, that would mean its a male. Any help will be welcome

I named him wong 黄.