Grumbling gourami - care and maintenance in an aquarium

When buying an aquarium, you need to clearly realize that its inhabitants are also living creatures, like cats and dogs. Yes, they cannot be stroked and taken out for a walk, in order to show off their pets to their neighbors. But they also require care, attention and proper care, instead bringing peace of mind and quiet joy.

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Not many were lucky to dive with scuba on the seabed and, hiding, to watch the flickering of tropical fish. Their colorfulness is compared to a living rainbow, and underwater plants and corals only add color to this unreal wildlife show. And let it is impossible to take this magnificence home, and photos and impressions fade with time. But you can set up an aquarium in your house and breed guppies you know from childhood in it or wipe out tropical exotic animals, such as those who grunt.

Aquarium is considered a closed ecosystem with its own laws and preferences. Therefore, it is very important not only to create comfortable conditions for the inhabitants, but also to select the fish so that they live together and do not bring each other harm.

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Grumbling gourami unpretentious and lives in nature in almost any reservoir from the creek to the roadside ditch. He looks like a domestic sparrow, who lives everywhere and is full of small crumbs. Due to the different habitat conditions, the fish of this species can be outwardly very different, but the conditions of care and maintenance of them are absolutely the same.

Often they say "He is like a fish." It is a pity that they did not hear the "conversations" grumbling gourami, especially during the period of caring for a female or disputes between males. The uninitiated will be struck by sounds coming from the aquarium. They are a bit like a mixture of croaking, grumbling and cod. This is a fish talk.

In order for the gourami to feel good, he needs:

  1. Aquarium with a capacity of at least 30 liters.
  2. The company, because the fish is gregarious and feels comfortable in the amount of 6 - 10 pieces, as well as neons.
  3. Lush bottom vegetation.
  4. Artificial shelter in the form of grottoes, zagryag or decorative figures.
  5. Cover to maintain a stable water temperature.

Aeration and filtration should be weak, almost imperceptible. If you need to breed fish, then it is necessary to exclude the slightest fluctuations of water, only then gourami begin to build a nest. Often the water does not need to be changed, it is enough 1 - 2 times a month to update 10 - 20% of the volume of the aquarium.

The nature of the fish is good-natured and a little shy, so it will constantly hide from noisy neighbors and will not show its delicate beauty with its thin fins and neat stripes.

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 Aquarium fish grumbling gourami
Beginners aquarists will take real pleasure in observing the construction of the nest, the ritual of courtship, and the care of caviar and fry. In grumbling gourami, all the troubles about the offspring male, as a true man, takes over. Courting for a female will not begin without a nest for eggs. It is built from air bubbles that are attached under a sheet of a floating plant.

The female spawns from 70 to 180 eggs. The amount depends on its age and size.The male collects the mouth eggs and puts them in the nest. Then the female is removed from the spawn, and the happy father eagerly gets down to business. He has only a few days before the moment when the fry will become independent, and will not need his care. During this time, you need to do a lot of things: remove the dead eggs, renew the nest, and make sure that the hatched restlessies do not blur in all corners.

After 2 days, the grown-up fry begin to feed on their own and from that moment the male loses interest in them and again becomes a “free and attractive man”. It can be deposited in the main aquarium and focus on taking care of the fry. Grumbling gourami in nature is a micro-predator and feeds on insects, crustaceans and larvae, eagerly feeds on fruit flies. In the conditions of the aquarium will not give up any feed: live, dry, frozen. He likes to collect nutrient particles near the surface of the water, but can catch up with a tasty morsel in the middle lane and even at the very bottom.

Adult fish reach 7 - 7.5 cm and live for about 5 years. It is noteworthy that the females mature faster, by 6 months, and the males will need 1 - 2 years to reach maturity. Gourami sensitive to the composition of water.Despite the fact that in nature they sometimes live in unexpected places: in the rice fields, in irrigation canals, all large and shallow reservoirs, they can become ill in captivity if the water has too high a softness and acidity index. Saves filtering and special additives available in any pet store. Optimum water readings:

  • temperature 24-28 ° C;
  • pH level 6.0-7.5 pH;
  • hardness indicators in the range of 5-20 °.

For beginners aquarists grunting gourami - a real find. Beautiful, unpretentious in food, calmly related to the neighborhood of other fish: swordtails, neons, terntions, labio.

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