ornamental fish: Dwarf Gouramy (Colisa lalia)

Dwarf Gouramy


Dwarf Gouramy (Colisa lalia) is a beautiful fish that come from India. Maximum body size of about 7 cm. Are omnivora. For the maintenance of optimal temperature between 26-28 ° C, pH 6,5-7,0; violence and 6-9 ° DH.


Interesting male blue indigo with a red line on the bottom or stomach. If it will flourish, in the stomach there are red lines diagonal. Red fin and back fin with the other orange dots blue. While female bright yellow fin and more rounded.

breeding how the fish are almost the same as the other fish sepat just need a lair foam plant water, float to stick. Male and female parent can be mixed and can spawn en masse comparison with 1: 1. Eggs are light so that male is not difficult to enter nest.


Female should be taken after flourish, while the male is taken when larva can already swim.
Eggs will hatch within a day and swim free at the age of one week. Larva feed infusoria can be given after swimming or out of the nest. Two or three days later, flyblow water bug can be filtered and further large water bug. For adult fish can be pelet or silk worms.



This will be a fish parent after the age of about six months. Size selling after reaching 2.5 cm or the age of four months.


source: Darti S.L and D. Iwan PenebarSwadaya, 2006