Honey Gourami - Colisa chuna

The Honey Gourami comes from India and Bangladesh, where it occurs in slow-flowing to standing, warm waters. Colisa chuna belongs to the labyrinth fish and thus has a so-called labyrinth organ with which it can breathe atmospheric air in addition to gill breathing. This helps it survive in these oxygen-poor waters. In this natural form of the Honey Gourami, the males are an intense golden yellow with a dark colored breast during the mating season.

Care in the aquarium

The Honey Gourami is not too difficult to care for, as long as the required water parameters are observed. It is important when keeping the Honey Gourami that it can easily reach the surface to breathe and that there is not too much current or sufficiently low-current areas in the aquarium. So the Honey Gourami feels comfortable and can show its natural behavior. Furthermore, you should pay attention to a dense planting of the aquarium, which in places reaches to the water surface. Similar to the Dwarf Gourami, socialization can take place with other peaceful fish, but not with tiger barbs, as these tend to nibble on the fins of the Honey Gourami.

Feeding

Colisa chuna can be fed with flake and smaller granulated food without any problems and live and frozen food are particularly popular.
 

Sexual Characteristics and Breeding

With the Honey Gourami, it is not too difficult to distinguish between the sexes, as the males have a strong yellow body colour, while females are much paler and the color tends to be silver-grey. The male looks particularly splendid when it is in the mood for courtship - then the chest area turns dark brown to black and represents a great contrast to the yellow of the body. In order to increase the gouramis' willingness to mate, the water level can be lowered (ideally to about 20 cm) and the water temperature increased to about 27°C. Feeding more live food additionally stimulates the fish. Like most labyrinth fish, the honey gourami builds a foam nest on the water surface into which the eggs are transported after fertilization and the male takes care of the brood until the young hatch.

These animals are ...
[  ] ...bred by us
[  ] ...bred by local breeders (AT, DE)
[X] ...bred by international breeders (Import)
[  ] ...wild caught (Import)