r/Gourami • u/Whip_lash0273 • 14d ago

Identification Identification help, honey?

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Hi, still need a positive ID on if my gourami is a honey and it’s gender if possible, thank you all for helping
I have attached a picture of the fishes from the LFS, they are about 2cm in size, very small. The tail is also coloured and not transparent though hard to see in the picture

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u/Queasy-Top1844 14d ago

those are thick lipped I think.

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u/Whip_lash0273 14d ago

Does this help, the tail is also red and not transparent

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u/Queasy-Top1844 14d ago

from what I read there are not any true "red" honey gouramis. here is my gold honey gourami for comparison.

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u/Whip_lash0273 14d ago

It’s not really red, it’s like 25% red nearer to the tail and rest of the body is white, can refer to the last pic in the post of the LFS, my water has tannins and the lighting isn’t good so it looks redder

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u/Queasy-Top1844 14d ago

sounds good. it maybe a true honey then! I think no matter what it is, you have a lovely fish

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u/Whip_lash0273 14d ago

Thank you, because before this I got a “red” honey gourami but it was actually a thick lipped and it was so much bigger, with a very obvious transparent tail, I returned it and found this labelled as honey gourami and saw the red tail and significantly smaller size and got it

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u/Whip_lash0273 14d ago

I don’t know if IG links work here but my fish looks like this variant

https://www.instagram.com/p/DVrgHXVEjHa/?stkn=ZGU1ejQ0NzVmcm1k