Gold Gourami Spawn

[paulW]

REally cool thread, thanks for posting this..
I would try to get some insuforia going.
Get some tank water in a jar or a spare tank, put some hay in it or other vegetable matter (I guess you can google, I always use rabbit hay).. Put the jar tank near a window for sun or put lights over it and then it will have a lot of microscopic organisms in there.

I do not have personal experience with blue gourami, but I have read that they can have have thousands of babies and it is hard to put enough food in there to feed them all.
The thing I read suggested syphoning off a smaller number.. like maybe 50 to another tank to attempt to read, because most will starve to death unless they are outside in a large pond or something with plenty of microscopic food.

Make lots of insuforia.. I would also suggest trying to turn the tank water green.
That is what I do for baby rainbows.. raise them in green water so they can graze on the microscopic organisms all day.

 

[Angel Lady]

What I have done so far is to liquefy the hard-boiled egg yolk. I also ground fish food into a powder and made a paste out of it and then added more water. The stuff that floats to the top is very fine and cloudlike and they seem to like it. I just now ground up the First Bites into a powder and gave that to them too. They seem to be eating although I need to clean out the tank and there are some plants I want to take out. I had them in for the female to be able to hide but I think it's too much to keep track of the babies. I can put them in two tanks but need to get another sponge filter first.

Here they are so far:

 

[Angel Lady]

I do have a pond and I brought some of that water in. It is light green but what, other than hay, can I put in it to get it going? "vegetable matter"? as in lettuce?

 

[tlindsey]

What I have done so far is to liquefy the hard-boiled egg yolk. I also ground fish food into a powder and made a paste out of it and then added more water. The stuff that floats to the top is very fine and cloudlike and they seem to like it. I just now ground up the First Bites into a powder and gave that to them too. They seem to be eating although I need to clean out the tank and there are some plants I want to take out. I had them in for the female to be able to hide but I think it's too much to keep track of the babies. I can put them in two tanks but need to get another sponge filter first.

Here they are so far:

That is awsome!

 

[Kittiee Katt]

Kuhli Loach Babies

That is soooo cool!!! Omg, baby kuhllis!!!!! How cute! were they normal kuhllis chocolate kuhllis or white kuhllis?

Oooooo...I love Bichir! I have a Dinosaur one in my tank at home and my tank at school. They grow pretty fast so I thought it would be a good one for my students to watch

If you don't mind, may I ask what you teach?

 

[Angel Lady]

That is awsome!

I'm certainly having fun. I have been breeding angels since last March. The Kuhlis were a total surprise. The gourami are a lot of work but I don't mind.

 

[Angel Lady]

That is soooo cool!!! Omg, baby kuhllis!!!!! How cute! were they normal kuhllis chocolate kuhllis or white kuhllis?


If you don't mind, may I ask what you teach?

They were the normal brown loaches. We had 2 which turned into 30.

I am a special education teacher at an alternative high school. I teach English and Math.

 

[Kittiee Katt]

They were the normal brown loaches. We had 2 which turned into 30.

I am a special education teacher at an alternative high school. I teach English and Math.

Fingers crossed my three stay as three, I doubt I could comfortably house 30+ kuhllis in their current tank hahaha

 

[Angel Lady]

Fingers crossed my three stay as three, I doubt I could comfortably house 30+ kuhllis in their current tank hahaha

They say they are hard to breed. My situation was quite accidental. I had no idea at all.

 

[Kittiee Katt]

They say they are hard to breed. My situation was quite accidental. I had no idea at all.

Every fish I've bred was an accident, I try not to let my fish breed - that is, I let the other fish eat the eggs because I can't be bothered with fry.

The last fish I raised were goldfish and they're all munted idk if its because their parents are munted or if I done something wrong (I'd never raised anything but convicts and guppys at the time) or a combination of the two, but since then I've decided to leave the breeding side of the hobby alone until I'm better situated financially and more mature mentally - I still have a LOT of maturing to do.