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Yeah i had 3 dwarf gouramis and 2 so far have died from it. Currently my neon blue is sick with something i'm not sure what, it made him not eat for a week but hes eating now with garlic guard doused fish flakes. They are beautiful interactive fish which i why i was wondering if any on here knew a good breeder. Because bad breeding seems to be the reason they get DGD. I'll try googling some options

Anyone know a good dwarf gourami breeder? The few I've bought from petco all had DGD. I like the little guys but its hard to deal with DGD. I want healthy ethically breed fish.

Update 2 My Java now has a leaf! Its been on the driftwood for awhile now. been doing fertilizer twice a week. Thanks for all the advice. I think it'll pull through.

Update time. finally got my driftwood, fertilizer and aquarium safe glue. Java fern is now glued to some driftwood (I did boil the driftwood first, did all the prep). Its now in a separate 10 gallon. I put it in there because I was worried the fertilizer might mess up with my tanks balance. Glad I did because it made the water very brown even though I put barely any in (about 1/8 of a cap full) I did see green shoots(?) or at least grass green bits from my Java fern so think thats good. Also when i pulled the rock wool off i found some golden yellowish balls. what are those? Seeds? Some kind of fertilizer ball? Anyway hopefully it'll come back. Though since my java fern is no longer in a pot and I did spend 20 bucks what are good plants that can live happily in a pot?

I do weekly 25% water changes and I clean my gravel.

Patrick_G :"I think this one is going to pull through. The new growth is small but it looks good! " oh good! there's hope! "Double check to make sure you’re following the instructions on the Nitrate test exactly. It’s very easy to get a false negative, I have first hand experience with this! 😁 It’s unusual to have zero Nitrate in any tank. " Yeah its a quick strip so the instructions are pretty simple. i also have a test tube kit i use to get more accurate results. but generally the quick strips are correct. the nitrate does flux from 0 to 7. at the time it was 0. I have pretty good filtration for my tank. "If it’s Seachem flourish fertilizer then you might want to switch to Easy Green. The Seachem isn’t very strong and has very little Nitrogen. You’ll want to bring your Nitrate level up to at least 15-20 to feed the plants. " It is but i already opened it. But I'll keep easy green in mind for next time or if Seachem doesn't work. I want to go slow anyway. I don't want to off set the balance of my tank. Someone also mentioned 2 Hour Aquarists apt zero fertilizer. i looked at that too and it sounds good. They have one thats for tanks with not a lot of plants but more fish which is mine. I just don't want to do too much too fast and have my system crash and my fish die ;_;

Thanks for all the advice! I did get a fertilizer. its by Seachem and I got some driftwood to attach it too. both should be coming soon. FiShrewd: "second for the fish part get some algae eating fish if you plan to use it as a fert (:" i do have an algae eater. i have a Chinese algae eater. He does a great job. i have no algae i can see. he also cleans up any food my fish don't eat. such a tidy guy

Its not buried. its in the plant pots that aquarium co-op sells

I'll try that then.

My ammonia is 0, nitrate 0 and nitrate 0 ph is 6-7. i haven't tried fertilizer yet. I thought my fish would do enough

I bought some plants last month. An anubias gold coin and a windelov java fern for my turtle tank. but the windolov isnt doing so well. i do admit these are my first live plants in my aquarium. i got them specifically because it said beginner friendly. hard to kill. sounded good to me because I'm not so good with plants. So the java fern started in the middle-ish of the tank when i noticed it started to get transparent leaves then brown. I tried to look up what was wrong and saw that it liked low light so i thought maybe that was too much light in the middle. (I have a single long florescent light for my tank) So i put it in the back under the basking house to block the tank light, it gets some natural bounce light from the window. nothings improved except i think i see a bit of green. will it come back or is it toast? (the anubias coin is doing fine) (i also have fish in the tank to make fertilizer 😉 )