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Labiosa, confused the Colisa Chuna

Well, in tanks or animals see very nice stores and sell them as Colisa Chuna, dwarf gourami, Colisa sota etc. etc. but when we see this fish:

its specs here. :
Scientific name: Trichogaster Labiosus. (Day, 1887)

Name (s) common (is) : Colisa Chuna is mistaken, dwarf gourami, Colisa sota, honey gourami, honey gourami red. Biotope

: Water Manza, with little or no current with abundant vegetation (these rice fields)

Geographic distribution: Southeast Myanmar (formerly Burma)

Photo EAD, aquarium

Form: compacted body lateral sides of dis rounded position. Has a pair of tactile barbels belly base.

Coloration: There are several varieties but the most common are the wild, a red background with bright crossed oblique lines vertically from a blue verdozo in males, females are a more opaque color.

The "Sunset" is a bright red with blue in the fins in males and females goes well with an orange-pink:


Size : Up to 10 in males, females do not go 8. Sex differences

: The male, besides being larger than the female has a more colorful coloration, which in the case of the wild strain is most evident since the female has a silver body in comparison with the beautiful blue tones male, female red variety present a more robust body than the male in addition to its red color will pale in comparison to the male who presented a splendid shades of red and orange.
As far as differences in the fins of males have dorsal and anal fin long, ending in point and reach the caudal fin, the female on the other hand has more short and rounded wings.

Temperature: 22-28 º C. Although they have a wider range a bit but this is ideal.

Water: pH: 6.0 - 7.5 gH: 4 - 10

Aquarium: From 60 L for a trio of one male and two females, with a soft current, well planted with floating plants.
Power: accept almost anything from commercial food as flakes, pellets, granules and food to Artemia, grindall, bloodworms, mosquito larvae and porridge.

Behavior: a fish is a bit shy and quiet, perfect for the aquarium cumunitario, territorial in breeding season (not having more than 2 males in less than 100 liters ) So we avoid the inconvenience of seeing high-speed chases in the aquarium. be possible to maintain a single male in the aquarium during the breeding season.
Life expectancy: 3 to 4 years.

Reproduction: Like all species of the genus Osphronemidae are bubble nest builders for reproduction.

Photo Sandro Torres

When specimens reach sexual maturity at about one year old females begin to mature their eggs which was evidenced in a lump belly, the male has a brighter color, this, feeling the female pheromones in the water with their barbels, began to defend their territory and become aggressive at first with the female, then began to blow bubbles on the surface water and gradually building their nest anger bubbles over once it started to show off the male to the female to take it below the nest where they embrace and the female will lay about 500 to 600 eggs floating (depending on several factors as feeding, age, size, etc), once made the start to withdraw and leave the female to male care of eggs, hatching time depends on the temperature (1 day to 28 degrees), fry is feed on their yolk sac until the second day or so, then began to freestyle at which we should remove the male and start feeding the fry with infusoria for a week after that we can include in your diet brine shrimp, microworms or even powdered dry food, try to keep the breeding tank very well covered on all apart of the week 3 and to begin developing its maze in which we now lower, after having spent this period will be very few tendremos.Los fry the casualties will continue to grow to accept food from adults.