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I went to the pet store last night and bought 10 rosy reds (they gave me 14 since they are such nice people). I put them in my 75gal for my Giant Gourami to eat. It wouldn't really touch them last night so, since it was late, I went ahead a shut the lights off for the night. I woke up this mourning to check on them and all 14 were gone! So either they hide really well in the plants or the Giant Gourami ate them.

The Giant Gourami is 8-10" long right now and it usually eats pretty well. Probably about a couple tetra-min waffers, a few seaweed sticks, and a few shrimp pellets every day w/ a tubie flex worm cube for a snack. It already ate all this earlier in the day so I would expect it to be very hungry. When I went to check on him this mourning, he still seemed hungry or happy to see me.

Do you think it could have ate all 14 of these rosy reds? We aren't talking little guppy fry here. They are about the size of rummy nose tetras. I had an Oscar before that didn't even eat like that. It would eat a couple and wait a little bit on the rest.

-Matt

i wasan't aware that a gourami ate minnows, but anyway, they aren't the hardiest, so check around, maybe they died somewhere.

I'm pretty sure some of them died as well.

But that said, Giant Gouramis are primarily herbivorous and you shouldn't be feeding them live fish in that quantity. Maybe one or two a week, but not fourteen. Feeding that many live fish to your gourami will lead to nothing but health problems for it, either diseases introduced from the feeders or just from eating the feeders in general (which aren't good for the fish).

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

I wasn't aware that there were other goramis with the "giant gorami" name. I have a pink version of the Osphronemus gorami. It is an omnivor and pretty aggressive toward other tank mates. Once it reached a fairly large size, it had started to beat on other gouramis. I lost a few since I had no other tank to put them in (pearls, blue, gold and opaline). Profiles have seemed to disagree with your herbivore claim. Some profiles that claim max size of 6" are full of it or may have mistaken it for a "Colisa fasciata". Many sites have suggested plants and I no longer have any since it ate them. Only thing it doesn't eat so far is Hydrocotyle. Ate my Hygo. rotala indica and even the amazon sword after a while.

I guess this site should help a little.
http://www.fishdeals.com/anabantids/gourami/giant_gourami/

Still 14! Like I said, no signs of life from them. nothing in the filter inlet except a couple hydrocotyle leaves. Been searching and still nothing.

Thanks for the replies. Sorry it took so long for me to reply back, we have a new baby in the house.

-Matt

http://petloversforum.net/archive/t-2788Meanest_Gourami_of_Them_All.html

Guess this helps too. 12 neons in one day.

BTW, later on in that post, Shed Aquarium in Chicago is no longer the largest in the world. Here in Atlanta, GA we now have Whale sharks. I havn't gone yet since it is said to be a little over crowded due to grand opening days.

-Matt