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Chris Walrod

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Last weekend, we added three more orange gouramis to our tank for a total of five of this type of fish. Yesterday, I noticed two of them were damaged. One has a good portion of his bottom fin and belly flesh chewed away, and the other has recent damage to his left side fin that is now inoperable. In other words, this guy cannot move this fin and seems to struggle to stay upright.

At first I thought it was the parrot fish that were attacking these two guys, but tonight I saw other orange gouramis (just one of them) pecking at the wounds of the most damaged gourami.

Whats going on here? Are they typically that teritorial? The two damaged gouramis seem so helpless and they both just hang around the top of the tank, maybe 6" from the surface. What can I do with them? Or, what should I do with them? I'll try to post some pics later tonight.

Just not sure what to do.. I am kinda sad about this..
 
To me that looks like some bacterial infection. I had a snakehead that looked like that. Like its meat was dissolving away. The other gourami's are pecking at it because its an open wound. If its an 80g i dont think terroritory is much of an issue. If you can try isolate the fish and update us on its progress
 
Update:

First of all, thanks for the input. The poor guy died last night. Bummer, but probably best for him.

I am pretty sure it was damage from other fish as this damage happened within a few hours after being placed into the tank.
 
gouramis defently have dominance issues. once they figure out the pecking order it should get better. also what is the male to female ratio to many males is gonna be trouble and not let them breed
 
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