After fixing my sick gourami i put him back in the main tank and the Siamese fighter and swordtail hassled him to death literally! I was hoping to have a try at breed ing gouramis but both blues and both lemon coloured ones have died over the last 4 months. Are they sensitive particularly?

I always thought gouramis were like most anabatonids and would be firley agressive when it comes to holding their own. Although I know fighters can be agressive at times. If you want to bred them they should breed the same as all bubblenest builders, so should be fairly simple if you buy more to breed.

good luck

Daniel

I have always found the pearl gouramis the easiest to keep and the ones I had bred like rabbits.

I did find that unlike my fighters they didn't take too well to large water changes, fry especially.

I've been giving my pearls 50% water changes weekly, I haven't noticed a single corpse in months. Despite my best efforts to freeze them and boil them when temperature coming out of the tap shifts when I'm not looking...

Ira, how big will those pearl gouramies get? Steve mentioned that the parents were huge.

Just asking because I am finally getting closer to being able to buy some off you.

Cheers

Jude

BUY SOME!

BUY SOME!

I thought he would at least be paying you to take them.

Alan 104

About...Ummm...Well, without catching the parents and flopping them down next to a ruler I'd say around 75 mm, not including their tail. Maybe 100mm.

Hehe, Thanks, Alan.

Ira, how big will those pearl gouramies get? Steve mentioned that the parents were huge.

Hi Jude

I have three and one of them is at least 10cm long and just about as wide - from eating all the baby platies I think! You can see a not very good photo of her on my Fish webpage, URL below.