@alisonreeder1587 thank you for checking out my video! Your comment means alot🙂 sometimes even smaller aquariums can have absolutely an incredible paradise!
@seyalVP no I am not sure, but after some heavy comparisons to males and females the fins just don't seem to be long enough for me at least to be convinced it's a male yet, it is a younger fish, but still as of now the fins have not grown out more. So it remains a mystery!
Thanks for the vid. How are they going with the peacock surgeons!? Surprising mix since they have some similarities. Btw looking at the colours I'd guess it's more likely a male...? I thought the females are slightly duller coloured than that.
@AtTheEdgeOfTokyo you bring an elite question!! One I love to awnser, very good questions, the Peacock gudeon and the Paradise Gourami seem to live very peacefully. They respect eachother and space, they swim near eachother with no signs of chasing or dominance flexes, but at first I did see a little bit of flexing but never any nipping. Short answer, they seem to coexist, and perhaps because the tanks is so densely planted. Now for the male or female, truly I'm unsure. But from photos I've seen many females seem to look like the one I have, but many males seem to look more elegant in the fins (much larger and longer fins, very blue as well) but it still is young and a junior so maybe it has yet to show its true colors, truthfully I'm still learning about this little beast! Everyday is a study! I really appreciate you checking out the video!
@@lakesregionaquariums2887 thanks for the quick reply. I have a regular spawning pair of peacock gudgeons and nearly a hundred fry now at around the 2 month development stage (IE identifiable as real fish lol). I also have golden wonder killifish (and, again, a ton of fry) that I was tempted to try putting together. I like the idea of encouraging any fish I keep to spawn as frequently as they like (helps measure their health and wellness) but I also have a limit to how many I'm capable of looking after. So I mix species to predate each other's fry (intentionally). GW killifish are surface dwellers and peacock gudgeons mostly lower or bottom dwellers...which would be fine but apparently they DO fight...and bigger GWs would possibly even eat the adult gudgeons (certainly the fry). So I've been contemplating paradise fish for some time. The round tail variety are actually endemic to parts of Japan and they're reasonably popular in aquariums. I was seriously surprised your paradise fish (which is usually the more aggressive variety) gets along with the gudgeons. Fyi the round tail variety also have the benefit of wider temperature tolerance (very cold to quite hot) and apparently aren't quite as aggressive to each other.
@AtTheEdgeOfTokyo it sounds like you have a beautiful lively aquarium. That's incredible I'd actually like to see your set up one day! And the paradise gourami I own I got incredibly lucky I believe now I only have one peacock, if I had a pair like you do and I added a paradise gourami into the tank I feel that might spark some sort of aggressive behavior from the gudgeons perhaps, but I could be wrong. I really do believe the more planted an aquarium is definitely defeans aggressive behavior in the paradise fish as the line of sight is so easily broken. And yes the kilifish GW definitely is capable of eating a gudeon, I had a GW years ago that ate a truly massive rummy nose tetra, but they do dwell in different parts of the tank. So if you did have a large mass of vegetation in the tank you may see some positive results but I've noticed GW especially pairs, like to explore the tank from time to time, so you may loose fry or maybe even a grown gudeon. It would be interesting to see how it would work but unfortunately there's always risk, but that being said I took a huge risk adding my paradise G and I have only had positive results, so you don't know until you try! 😁
@@lakesregionaquariums2887 Thanks for the encouragement. My adult GW killifish, Mickey platies and medaka are in a well aged "planted" 55gallon. The plants have never done as well though in that tank so it's currently too sparsely covered. Not sure why that is but I'm contemplating a full reset - and changing it to a deeply dirted tank based on success with my other dirted tank experiments. Surprisingly the killifish leave the medaka alone - although I have lost a few medaka "mysteriously" quite some time ago. I think fish need to get used to each other and once through that phase, they're usually fine. I've found that with killifish raised from fry stage alongside other even quite small fish (that they eventually overtake in size), those smaller fish get left alone - even though they'd be instant snacks if dropped in with adult killifish. I guess they learn early there's no point trying to eat those "small fish" and the lesson sticks through to adulthood. But with the gudgeons, although they are bigger (and different zone) to the medaka, I think their colouring and propensity to be quarrelsome wouldn't be worth the risk. I've got the various fry, dwarf platies and bumblebee gobies in different newer tanks. A couple of smaller killifish mixed in the goby tank and they completely get along well so far lol.
@@AtTheEdgeOfTokyo, I completely agree that fish need to adjust toward each other. The fact that adult fish can be opportunists by nature when it comes to feeding and realizing it is not worth their energy to go after small fish is an incredible behavior to witness especially in an aquarium and I have seen it myself. I feel you will definitely see good results in the dirted option, as plants that mainly feed from their roots will benefit from that GREATLY. Light also plays a massive factor in the benefit of plants have you tried to adjust lights at all in the aquarium for better plant growth? I found the moment I bought a plant light for my tank Plantcity (The tank in the video) The plants absolutely took off, but some plants I still struggled with, so I began adding small amounts of crushed coral which has benefited many plants very well, I also dose my tank each week (Especially after a water change) With liquid fertilizer, magnesium, iron, and others. Plantcity is not dirted, Though I wish it was, I do actually plan on doing that in the somewhat near future but who knows at the way the plants grow with the ferts and the lighting my tank may grow plants out of the windows of my home lol😁
Beautiful tank. I wish I had the room for one that size. Looks like an aquarium paradise. Lucky fish. Never seen that gourami before.
@alisonreeder1587 thank you for checking out my video! Your comment means alot🙂 sometimes even smaller aquariums can have absolutely an incredible paradise!
Hey nice species video! I love gouramis, they arent for everyone. Paradise are some of my favorites.
@pelhamsaquatics nice to hear from you! Thanks for checking out this video! They truly are amazing fish in every way!
@@lakesregionaquariums2887 very welcome! Good to see ya🙂
Beautiful aquarium❤
@@prateek_mishra. I appreciate that! Thanks for taking the time to check it out!
Awesome fish. Nice tank. Thanks for sharing
@markfranklin8831 appreciate you taking time to stop by! Thanks for the comment!
Cool video
@@LordChumbley I appreciate you checking it out!
I like the long tail fin that’s neat
@Smallfish16 it's definitely an eye catcher! Thanks for checking out the vid!
Sure this is a female? The fins are bit too long and pointy
@seyalVP no I am not sure, but after some heavy comparisons to males and females the fins just don't seem to be long enough for me at least to be convinced it's a male yet, it is a younger fish, but still as of now the fins have not grown out more. So it remains a mystery!
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Thanks for the vid. How are they going with the peacock surgeons!? Surprising mix since they have some similarities.
Btw looking at the colours I'd guess it's more likely a male...? I thought the females are slightly duller coloured than that.
@AtTheEdgeOfTokyo you bring an elite question!! One I love to awnser, very good questions, the Peacock gudeon and the Paradise Gourami seem to live very peacefully. They respect eachother and space, they swim near eachother with no signs of chasing or dominance flexes, but at first I did see a little bit of flexing but never any nipping. Short answer, they seem to coexist, and perhaps because the tanks is so densely planted. Now for the male or female, truly I'm unsure. But from photos I've seen many females seem to look like the one I have, but many males seem to look more elegant in the fins (much larger and longer fins, very blue as well) but it still is young and a junior so maybe it has yet to show its true colors, truthfully I'm still learning about this little beast! Everyday is a study!
I really appreciate you checking out the video!
@@lakesregionaquariums2887 thanks for the quick reply. I have a regular spawning pair of peacock gudgeons and nearly a hundred fry now at around the 2 month development stage (IE identifiable as real fish lol).
I also have golden wonder killifish (and, again, a ton of fry) that I was tempted to try putting together. I like the idea of encouraging any fish I keep to spawn as frequently as they like (helps measure their health and wellness) but I also have a limit to how many I'm capable of looking after. So I mix species to predate each other's fry (intentionally). GW killifish are surface dwellers and peacock gudgeons mostly lower or bottom dwellers...which would be fine but apparently they DO fight...and bigger GWs would possibly even eat the adult gudgeons (certainly the fry).
So I've been contemplating paradise fish for some time. The round tail variety are actually endemic to parts of Japan and they're reasonably popular in aquariums.
I was seriously surprised your paradise fish (which is usually the more aggressive variety) gets along with the gudgeons.
Fyi the round tail variety also have the benefit of wider temperature tolerance (very cold to quite hot) and apparently aren't quite as aggressive to each other.
@AtTheEdgeOfTokyo it sounds like you have a beautiful lively aquarium. That's incredible I'd actually like to see your set up one day! And the paradise gourami I own I got incredibly lucky I believe now I only have one peacock, if I had a pair like you do and I added a paradise gourami into the tank I feel that might spark some sort of aggressive behavior from the gudgeons perhaps, but I could be wrong. I really do believe the more planted an aquarium is definitely defeans aggressive behavior in the paradise fish as the line of sight is so easily broken. And yes the kilifish GW definitely is capable of eating a gudeon, I had a GW years ago that ate a truly massive rummy nose tetra, but they do dwell in different parts of the tank. So if you did have a large mass of vegetation in the tank you may see some positive results but I've noticed GW especially pairs, like to explore the tank from time to time, so you may loose fry or maybe even a grown gudeon. It would be interesting to see how it would work but unfortunately there's always risk, but that being said I took a huge risk adding my paradise G and I have only had positive results, so you don't know until you try! 😁
@@lakesregionaquariums2887 Thanks for the encouragement. My adult GW killifish, Mickey platies and medaka are in a well aged "planted" 55gallon. The plants have never done as well though in that tank so it's currently too sparsely covered. Not sure why that is but I'm contemplating a full reset - and changing it to a deeply dirted tank based on success with my other dirted tank experiments. Surprisingly the killifish leave the medaka alone - although I have lost a few medaka "mysteriously" quite some time ago. I think fish need to get used to each other and once through that phase, they're usually fine. I've found that with killifish raised from fry stage alongside other even quite small fish (that they eventually overtake in size), those smaller fish get left alone - even though they'd be instant snacks if dropped in with adult killifish. I guess they learn early there's no point trying to eat those "small fish" and the lesson sticks through to adulthood.
But with the gudgeons, although they are bigger (and different zone) to the medaka, I think their colouring and propensity to be quarrelsome wouldn't be worth the risk. I've got the various fry, dwarf platies and bumblebee gobies in different newer tanks. A couple of smaller killifish mixed in the goby tank and they completely get along well so far lol.
@@AtTheEdgeOfTokyo, I completely agree that fish need to adjust toward each other. The fact that adult fish can be opportunists by nature when it comes to feeding and realizing it is not worth their energy to go after small fish is an incredible behavior to witness especially in an aquarium and I have seen it myself. I feel you will definitely see good results in the dirted option, as plants that mainly feed from their roots will benefit from that GREATLY. Light also plays a massive factor in the benefit of plants have you tried to adjust lights at all in the aquarium for better plant growth? I found the moment I bought a plant light for my tank Plantcity (The tank in the video) The plants absolutely took off, but some plants I still struggled with, so I began adding small amounts of crushed coral which has benefited many plants very well, I also dose my tank each week (Especially after a water change) With liquid fertilizer, magnesium, iron, and others. Plantcity is not dirted, Though I wish it was, I do actually plan on doing that in the somewhat near future but who knows at the way the plants grow with the ferts and the lighting my tank may grow plants out of the windows of my home lol😁