Replacing internal filter
Noura, Glad to see you’re taking these recommendations and/or criticisms in the spirit they are meant ( solely to help you). BTW, you might want to clean up that overstocked inbox — can’t get too much help if you don’t get the replies.
Giving up on someone so eager to learn about fish keeping is the furthest thing from our minds. As long as you’re earnest enough to seek out the needed info, we’ll be more than happy to try to keep you informed. Too bad about the lack of knowledge and equipment at your fish store. Your fish could use a rest at night, if they are otherwise constantly fighting the current, but you’ll need to replace those powerheads with ones more compatable to your tank (with a slower flow rate). Some of them have adjustable flow rates, but apparently not yours.
With your description of your nearby fish store owners’ knowledge, I might guess that you bought your powerhead(s) there, with their recommendation. If that’s the case, you ought to be able to bring it/them back to the store for exchange for more fitting powerhead(s) for your 10 gallon tank — even though the equipment is now used. Its not your fault they sold you the wrong equipment, if it was their idea to do so. If you took that upon yourself though, you can only try to take it back, but should in any case get something smaller.
Your intentions to breed your Blue Gourami’s is commendable, and would be most interesting, but I feel you will not have much luck when trying to raise them when breeding them in a smaller tank than your 10 gallon (a 10 gallon will not even be large enough); their spawns are large. You could give it a try though, for the experience of it, but be alert to pull out the female after breeding, since it sounds like they’ll be in tight quarters. You can pull out the male too, after the fry are free swimming, or even before then as both the fry and eggs float among the male’s rather weak and scattered bubble nest.
I’m SURE You’ll turn out to be a good fish keeper, if you have the intentions to and listen to sound advice. Ray
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