Colisa Lalia – Dwarf Gourami

[Malti]

On the knowledge base there’s the male “neon form” – looks like a female to me

to compare here’s some pics of my females….one died today and was dead couple of hrs so colouring was fading, but the other one is damn close

–> SF

–> Mine

[mickthefish]

naw mate, thats a male look at the dorsal point and the colour of the ventrals.
your is a female alright with a belly full of roe.

mick

[Malti]

looks like a male, but the colours are too drab…

and she’s full after 4/5 days of spawning….baby machine

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[mickthefish]

the flash has hit it so it draws the colours.
i used to breed them bud, never ending fry supplier, takes an age to get a saleable size of them though.

I was gonna ask this earlier this week but forgot, how come your keeping diddy fish i had two mates who went over to Malta and were invited into a few lads homes to see their fish,
to say they were impressed would be an understatement with the sizes of the tanks.
but mainly they saw big cichlids and not very much of the small fish.
unfortunately one of my mates has passed away due to the big C but Bill Drake is still with us, he also attended one of your fish shows and being a fish judge he was very impressed with the quality of the fish.
ever heard that name bud, he is well known in the killi scene.
btw the other lad was called Brian Wilson, a nice guy.

mick

[Malti]

don’t really have place/cash for the big fish yet…and I’m hooked on bettas..

yep heard about Bill drake, a guy i know spoke highly of him, he’s a champ of killis around here

and its not only flash mate, i see it so with naked eye…took pics after i noticed the neon looked like my female

[mickthefish]

OH man, he shown us slides of this guys tanks/swimming pools built into the rockface they were huge,
i know Bill very well, could you let the people that know him he’s just come out of hospital a couple of days ago but he’s alright.
i have the highest respect for that man, he’s bred killi’s that were supposed to be unbreedable but he found a way, but he’s also humble.
i think thats how you spell it.

right it’s bo bo time ive finished my Dalwhinnie and 36 bottles of grolsh so in mancunian, i’m shedded.
G night

mick

[Malti]

I will if i see them, good to hear he’s alright

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[Matt]

Told ya Karlos!

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[Malti]

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[KAH]

yup, top fish is a male. The females always seem to have that bright dot on the peduncle too.

what’s a diddy fish?

[mickthefish]

Hi KAH, it’s what we call little fish mate, haha

mick

[KAH]

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[mickthefish]

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[Malti]

got some not so diddy Trichogaster trichopterus gold form today….

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