Giant Gouramis

[Kaix]

Giant Gouramis now for about 4 years. One is a normal grey the other is a pink Gourami. They will eat both meat or fish, as well as vegetable matter of many descriptions. They also don't seem to mind pellet foods. They are both housed in a 1500 liter tank and I have an external canister as well as an internal filter which I made from a bucket. They are messy fish as they produce copious amounts of waste, especially when they are on a vegetable diet only. So to give the aquarium filters a rest I feed them pellets for 2 to 3 days and vegetable and protein matter for the next 3. If they are on a vegetable diet it is important to feed them at least twice a day, as this is digested pretty fast. They are a very gentle and calm group of fishes and can be taught to eat from the hand. They are a big fish species and grow up to 70 cm, however mine are only 45 to 50 cm long. They do display some aggressive behavior towards some catfishes, but other than that they don't seem to mind other fishes.

[rahimi]

Very old & aggresive haaaaa............:tounge_smile:

[solarcoaster]

i mix giant gourami with aro b4 but they fought like hell, aro lost its scale, gourami also lost its scale, at last put gourami into pond... btw nice botia u have there ... what the size now? just acquire 10 botia size 30 cm last two month... very cute fish

[rahimi]

Aggressive giant gourami !!!:angry_smile:

[GrandePunto]

Very Aweson Fish

[ryan]

Giant Gouramis now for about 4 years. One is a normal grey the other is a pink Gourami. They will eat both meat or fish, as well as vegetable matter of many descriptions. They also don't seem to mind pellet foods. They are both housed in a 1500 liter tank and I have an external canister as well as an internal filter which I made from a bucket. They are messy fish as they produce copious amounts of waste, especially when they are on a vegetable diet only. So to give the aquarium filters a rest I feed them pellets for 2 to 3 days and vegetable and protein matter for the next 3. If they are on a vegetable diet it is important to feed them at least twice a day, as this is digested pretty fast. They are a very gentle and calm group of fishes and can be taught to eat from the hand. They are a big fish species and grow up to 70 cm, however mine are only 45 to 50 cm long. They do display some aggressive behavior towards some catfishes, but other than that they don't seem to mind other fishes.


4 years look already bit old, how long they can survive roughly do u know bro kaix??

[weeyang19]

really big one there,....nice fish,... last time i also used to keep, i try about 3.5year than he leave me le :( cute fish, diet on vege and fruits :) cute fish that eat vege and fruits

[FishyFishy]

very old looking fish... real giant...