So I’ve had these gouramis for going on three months now, I lost the pair to my powder blue dwarf sadly to gourami disease, I treated him as best I could but he didn’t pull through and then suddenly one morning about a week later the pair to my pearl just passed overnight with no indication as of why, was healthy and energetic and ate the day before. Now fast forward I have this pair left, they’re in a 42 gallon bow front tank my ph is 7.4 steady since startup my ammonia is safe (I monitor my seachem hanging monitor and I also do all my water testing with the fluval master test kit) and I’ve been battling the purple hell of water changes in the nitrates and nitrites level as my cycle had crashed however none of that super pertains here maybe ish. The pearl gourami has steadily been putting this tummy on last and this week at first I’d try to be selective of where and when I feed but if he’s not a girl and pregnant I’m worried he’s just going to eat himself to death! I have blue eyed rainbows, harlequin rasboras, guppies and my bottom feeders in with this pair they don’t seem stressed they do seem to face off every once in a while but more like a dominance display or a beauty competition then it seems aggressive of sorts, here’s my video of the pair today I just did my glass cleaning sorry it’s cloudy and sorry for my dogs barking in the background, my audio was not intentional but I left it as I laugh at myself. But yes please tell me are these boys still!? I’m questioning the sexes now and is the pearl pregnant or overeating!? Also I have little experience with these guys they were my first two pairs and I’m devastated it’s just these two left but I want to do the absolute best I can by them! I love them so much and I’m learning about them more on here than any reading I did before getting them so please be nice but any info is absolutely appreciated!!

Overeating or pregnant!? (The pearl)