Freshwater Tropical Fish Guide - The Blue Gourami

The Blue Gourami, sometimes also called the 3 Spot Gourami is a popular freshwater tropical fish aquarium. These fish are usually a light blue color and have three dark spots, one on the underside of the tail, one in the middle of the body and a view that appears on the third spot. The Gourami species of fish itself comes in different colors, blue, which you often see in pet shops shops, gold and opal, and a few other rear of the races. These fish can grow very large and are best suited for larger aquariums.

The Blue Gourami is a fairly easy fish to keep and will be fine on floating flake food that you probably feed most of the other fish in your tank. However, like most creatures, these fish do need a bit of variety and it's good to throw in some freeze dried blood worms or frozen brine shrimp have a while just to ensure that they get all the vital nutrients they need.

If you buy a Gourami fish is very small that you could start them off in a smaller aquarium but eventually you going to have a 50-gallon or larger as the fish grows. This species can grow quite large and you want to be sure that your house them enough. you must also be sure that you have a good heater on the tank, since, like many other tropical freshwater fish, the temperature of the water to be between 70 and 82 ° F. Other conditions include a tank pH of 6.0 to 8.8 and a hardness of 5-35 DGH.

Since these fish are used to densely vegetated waters, as found in their native tropical waters of the Far East, the Gourami feel right at home if you have a lot of the plants in your aquarium. They get together with other fish in their species, but you must make sure that you have many Gourami and preferably different type cars in the tank to keep from ganging of the other fish. It is best to have at least 4 Gouramis in the tank and even better if you can get a mix of blue, gold and opaline varieties. Usually you want to stick to only one man and the tank as they can be territorial.

The Blue Gourami enjoys the company of the other varieties of Gourami. You could keep Gold, Blue and Opaline Gourami peacefully together in the same aquarium. Oddly enough, if you tank has only one variety of Gourami with other species of fish, the Gourami will conspire against the other fish. If you like a mix of Gourami in the tank, among other species, the Gourami tend to focus on their own type of fish and leave the other alone. It is recommended that you have a minimum of four Gourami's in your tank, with a mix of different varieties.

The Gourami can get along in the tank with other fish of the same size and can live peacefully with barbs, clown Loaches, Bala Sharks, Danios, Rainbow Sharks, Red Tail Sharks and Rainbows.

If you care for your excellent and Gouramis them with the proper tank conditions, they can live, four years old and grow to 4 inches in length.