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Hello,
I really hope that you
can help me.I have a 20 gallon
tank with the following
Gouramis: 1 gold
gourami approx.
5, 1 gold
gourami approx
2, 3
Opaline
Gouramis (2
3 inches each).The large
gourami is really
picking on the other
gourami.It is to the
point where all the
other fish stay at the
bottom of the tank.I dont know
if you can punish a
fish (probably not,
it is probably a dumb
question).Is there any
way I can stop him from
picking on the other
fish?
Thanks,
Brad
Reply.
Hello Brad. No, you should not punish your Gold
Gourami, because it will not understand why
it is being punished, and so the punishment
will not solve your problem.
Your Gold Gourami
and three Opaline Gouramis are color varieties
of the same fish that used to be named Three
Spot Gourami. They were called Three Spot Gouramis,
because most of them have a spot near the base
of their tails, a spot near the middle of their
bodies, and a third spot: their eye.
So your fish
are all the same species called Three Spot Gouramis
with the scientific name Trichogaster trichopterus.
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here and read about Three Spot Gouramis.
Where you will learn that they should be kept
in an aquarium with at least 50 gallons of water,
and they should be kept in a group with at least
four Three Spots or the strongest one will make
the others miserable.
You have four
Three Spots, but the Gold one is much bigger
and stronger than the other. If all four of
your Three Spots were the same size and living
in an aquarium with at least 50 gallons of water,
they would probably get along well.
Your larger Gold
Gourami is trying to tell the smaller Opaline
Gouramis to say away. But they can't get very
far away from the Gold Gourami, because your
aquarium isn't big enough for them.
Your problem
illustrates the fact that before you buy a fish,
you should first read about that fish and find
out about the appropriate home for that fish.
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here to read about the Seven Essentials
of keeping tropical fish, where #1 is "Match
the Fish with an Appropriate Home."
If you want to
keep Three Spot Gouramis, you will need a bigger
aquarium. If you want to keep your aquarium,
then you should keep a group of fish that is
appropriate for your 20-gallon aquarium.
I am not recommending
you get rid of your fish, and I'm not recommending
you get a bigger aquarium. I am just saying
that your Three Spot Gouramis are not appropriate
fish for your aquarium, and so you need to change
the aquarium or change the fish.
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hi, great site, learned
a lot about invertibrates
and now am comfortable
to start ordering them
from you. but
i have a problem.
i have been unable to
print either your contact
info for my files or
the price lists to check
out later. is
there any kind of a
block that you have
on that.
i wanted to return to
your site after my comuter
locked up but did not
remember your name exactly
and it took me a good
half hour to get it
right, it didn't come
up under "aquariums"
keyword in google. you
might want to check
it out. i'd like to
be able to print your
info.
thanks
Anna M.
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I was just reading a
question from Anna m
(pg 54) she said she
couldn't get things
on the site to print
and I thought that maybe
I could help so long
as you guys don't have
a problem with people
printing information
from your site without
prior consent?
anyway the easiest way
ive found to print from
sites that are less
then friendly when it
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this,
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copy and left click
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pad)
5 left click anywhere
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paste from the box that
appears every thing
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should be on the page
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hope this helps anyone
who needs it god knows
ive needed and gotten
alot of help from this
site and its readers
thanks
mike C., Ontario, Canada
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Help! We have a 12-gallon
Eclipse tank with fresh
water fish. It sits
away from the window
on an interior wall.
We live near the San
Francisco Bay so we
dont have air conditioning
because our weather
is usually very pleasant.
We have had unusually
hot, hot weather here
(100 for a few days)
and our tank is overheating.
Right now the water
is 88 and we have lost
two fish today. How
do we safely cool down
our tank and keep it
at a comfortable level
in this hot weather?
Thanks for your help.
Pattie and Logan F.
Reply.
Hello Pattie and Logan. There are three
ways to cope with this problem.
(1) Buy
an expensive chiller, which will circulate water
from your aquarium through a cooling device
and back to your aquarium to lower the temperature
of the water. Chillers are often used in saltwater
aquariums with cool water inhabitants like an
octopus.
(2) Open
up the cover on your Eclipse and position an
air fan to blow across the surface of the water.
This will cause more water to evaporate from
your aquarium and cool the water.
Of course you
will need to replace the water but do not water
to just add more water to replace the evaporated
water. Instead remove more water down a total
of 2" including the evaporated water, then refill
with tap water.
(3) The
third method is to put water in a plastic bottle,
but leave an inch or two of air in the top of
the bottle, then freeze the bottle and float
it in your aquarium.
You may need
to get several bottles and rotate them. You'll
want to check the temperature often with an
aquarium thermometer. If you get the water below
84 degrees F., your fish should be OK and 82
would probably be better. It would be my goal
to get the water down to 82.
Be certain the
container you use is not contaminated with a
label or other material on the outside. Everything
you put in your aquarium should be labeled for
use in aquarium, but I doubt you can find a
bottle labeled for aquariums. You can probably
find a bottle labeled for human drinking.
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