Wow Resilience Wow

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Azedenkae

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Came home today to see my Dwarf Gourami laying on the floor, and this is after like half an hour of doing random stuff around the room. So must have jumped out earlier.

Anyways, I poked it and it did not do anything, so I used a piece of newspaper to pick it up (quite roughly), and then I thought 'gee why not feed it to the fish', so I tossed it back into the tank and my cichlids went for it.

After a while I didn't see it anymore, so I thought it died.

A minute ago, I just turned to my side (my tank is in my room, next to my laptop) and lo and behold, the dwarf gourami is swimming around, besides tattered fins, acting perfectly fine.

Talk about resilience, lol.
 
thats amazing I wish I had a good story like that. Most the fish I keep have labyrinth organs (snakehead, giant gourami, bichir) so I guess they can survive out of water for a while. I guess thats how your gourami did it as they are also anabantids.
 
Rafini said:
thats amazing I wish I had a good story like that. Most the fish I keep have labyrinth organs (snakehead, giant gourami, bichir) so I guess they can survive out of water for a while. I guess thats how your gourami did it as they are also anabantids.
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Ah, I never knew. That's possibly why because when I got to it it was actually all dried up, and it was just amazing that it is so lively now. Other fish would take ages to recover, but not these it would seem.
 
Gouramis are pretty interesting and very entertaining fish. One of my favorites and the price tag makes me like them more! As Rafini said, the labyrinth organs are probably what allowed it to survive!
 
That is the thing with anabantoids (gouramis), CKF, the gars, the snakeheads and the bichirs. They are obligate air breathers. They breathe moist oxygen along with DO in their gills. They usually live on floodplains that can usually isolate and trap them. This leads to stagnant, oxygen deprived water. That is why they are easier and safer to ship. One poster even was forced to transport his GG in a bucket for 37 hours without any ill effect to his fish. This is the very reason I have most of them.
 
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