Post by kohakuriver on Mar 31, 2019 11:20:33 GMT -5
Hello! I am hoping someone here with more experience in fishkeeping can help me identify what’s going on with some recently purchased fish.
I bought 3 honey gouramis three and a half weeks ago (directly after shipment - the fish were in the store's tank for a couple hours at most) and kept them in quarantine until this week. In the meantime, I have been back to the store and looked at the remaining stock they had (because I wanted to possibly buy another female), but I noticed that the remaining fish had weird black flecks on them. I decided against buying another fish because I was afraid it was some illness. The black flecks look almost like the "peppering" I have seen on discus and some fish had more than others. Well, on day 2 of adding them to one of my displays, I noticed my honey gouramis developing the same black flecks/dust. Before this, I had not seen any black specks on them and hoped whatever the remaining store stock had was not able to transfer to the fish I bought due to the small window of exposure time. As this week has progressed, it seems that there are more and more dots appearing, including a band or line on the dorsal of one of them. I am curious if anyone can identify what this phenomenon is: is it a disease/fungus/parasite or do gouramis get the "peppering" discoloration? Could it be stress related since I ended up with 2 males and 1 female? Or maybe the “flame honey gourami” are actually more like the sunset honeys that get the black on them when they are wanting to breed?
I am also curious if it could be velvet, as the quarantine they were in had minimal light, but the display is lit with 2 CFLs (and the store tank is very bright). When I shine a light on them, they are kind of shiny, and the black specks don't show up, but I don't know if that's just how the fish are colored or not. I have looked at so many pictures and read about fish illnesses for months now because I have a betta that has been sick for 6 months. I haven’t seen and can’t find anything like this.
The tank is a 20g long and the only inhabitants are 2 amano shrimp and the 3 honeys (and some sort of copepod type things that have kept my tank immaculate until the honeys ate most of them). The amanos have been in the tank for ~6 weeks. These gouramis are very young - about the size of a quarter, maybe a 50 cent piece. My tank is heavily planted with MGOC soil/gravel substrate and has been set up since Dec. 6.
The parameters are:
PH - 7.4
NH3 - <0.25 (this never seems to go away, even when the tank was empty of inhabitants)
NO2 - 0
NO3 - >0 but <0.25
GH - 8
KH - 4
Temperature is 78-80; sponge filter for filtration.
Thank you in advance!!!!
I bought 3 honey gouramis three and a half weeks ago (directly after shipment - the fish were in the store's tank for a couple hours at most) and kept them in quarantine until this week. In the meantime, I have been back to the store and looked at the remaining stock they had (because I wanted to possibly buy another female), but I noticed that the remaining fish had weird black flecks on them. I decided against buying another fish because I was afraid it was some illness. The black flecks look almost like the "peppering" I have seen on discus and some fish had more than others. Well, on day 2 of adding them to one of my displays, I noticed my honey gouramis developing the same black flecks/dust. Before this, I had not seen any black specks on them and hoped whatever the remaining store stock had was not able to transfer to the fish I bought due to the small window of exposure time. As this week has progressed, it seems that there are more and more dots appearing, including a band or line on the dorsal of one of them. I am curious if anyone can identify what this phenomenon is: is it a disease/fungus/parasite or do gouramis get the "peppering" discoloration? Could it be stress related since I ended up with 2 males and 1 female? Or maybe the “flame honey gourami” are actually more like the sunset honeys that get the black on them when they are wanting to breed?
I am also curious if it could be velvet, as the quarantine they were in had minimal light, but the display is lit with 2 CFLs (and the store tank is very bright). When I shine a light on them, they are kind of shiny, and the black specks don't show up, but I don't know if that's just how the fish are colored or not. I have looked at so many pictures and read about fish illnesses for months now because I have a betta that has been sick for 6 months. I haven’t seen and can’t find anything like this.
The tank is a 20g long and the only inhabitants are 2 amano shrimp and the 3 honeys (and some sort of copepod type things that have kept my tank immaculate until the honeys ate most of them). The amanos have been in the tank for ~6 weeks. These gouramis are very young - about the size of a quarter, maybe a 50 cent piece. My tank is heavily planted with MGOC soil/gravel substrate and has been set up since Dec. 6.
The parameters are:
PH - 7.4
NH3 - <0.25 (this never seems to go away, even when the tank was empty of inhabitants)
NO2 - 0
NO3 - >0 but <0.25
GH - 8
KH - 4
Temperature is 78-80; sponge filter for filtration.
Thank you in advance!!!!