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Thanks tetra, I've seen them listed around as well. But I like the colors and size of the sparling gourami better. There are a couple neat species of little gourami out there, including the licorice gourami, which seems very sensitive, on par with the chocolate gourami, another sensitive little gourami. I remember back in your planted tank log you thought the chocolate gourami were pretty.

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I was thinking more about this

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Ingo

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You'd be Amazed, little_fish, how aggressive these guys can be when it comes to live food, including snails. Mine have been nearly as effective as loaches, sucking the soft bodies right out of their shells. They are absolutely monstrous when it comes to shrimp, too, despite the shrimp being nearly as large as they are. They are tiny, sparkly, killing machines! They even hold their own against my bully Pearl gourami, and he could probably swallow them whole if he stopped to think about it.

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illustrae,

Wow, that is quite interesting. So they are little monsters, cute ones though.

Thanks for the info,

Ingo

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hey little monsters is a little unfair

they don't exactly seem like florida flagfish here

Dedicated hunters is more like it

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Yeah those Gouramis are tough looking

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They don't care one bit about the size of the snail. My poor applesnails got beat up terribly. I moved the 7 sparkling gouramis to my 20g long with guppies, clown plecos, and a young female opaline. For awhile there were also rams in there. Then I divided them out into breeding groups in two 5g tanks but only 1 male showed interest in spawning and the fry did not survive. I got bored of trying and the applesnails met their demise due to the trumpet snails and old age so the sparkling gouramis are back in the 90g. They've never gone after any other fish and only tear each others fins up when they are feeling too cramped. They actually seem to much prefer to be kept in at least a little trio.

Oh Sham... I sympathize with you completely about your apple snails. I tried keeping some lovely blue and purple briggs with my sparkling gouramis, and it didn't take 10 minutes before those evil, bloodthirsty fish had nipped away their antannae and were working on the poor snails mantles...

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