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Originally Posted by Dan Pellegrini
What are your water params and how long have you had the fish? I have been looking to acquire some of these - and I hear they are very fragile.
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I keep them since 2003 or so, but with some lost and some year without them.
Currently I keep a group of 5 in a 50 liter exclusive tank. Parameter are difficult to keep, they are in really soft water -luckily my tap water is really soft-, pH near to 5,5 or 6 and a low EC around 100 microS/cm. Using soft water, with a acid-reaction soil as akadama you can get a nice environment for your chocos.
Akmal, thanks for the link, quite interesting, really my tank looks like.
If you are interested, I posted a video on youtube about the ritual breeding dance.
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Originally Posted by Guillermo
Welcome to ASW Xema, glad to read you over here. Your experience maintaining cryptocorines will be very helpful. Beautiful chocolate gouramies, thanks for sharing the pics, they are awesome.
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Pleasure is mine.
Precisely my love for the chocolates gouramis drove me into the crypts world...
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Originally Posted by Dan Pellegrini
I have heard they will thrive in a pH as low as 4.0 !!!
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Well, first time I got bred them, ph was near to 5,5. These fishes has a problem, as they lives in really acid eviroment, where bacteria and fungus can not proliferate, they have not defense against it, so really they can live at higher pH but bacteria and fungus will appear killing them.
Following an article I wrote for a local aquarium site -I think in 2003, sorry for the blurry images-.
articulogurami
And you have an english version here:
Chocolate Gourami Breeding, by Xema
Well, now, after this lesson of chocolate gourami 'culturing', some new shoots...
Eating flakes..
Showing its fins...
Lookign for some food between algae -where there are lots of -od bugs, ostracods, copopods, and so on-.
Watching above the surface...
I hope you enjoy it as me!!!