GIANT gouramis

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Tequila;1325751; said:
Cheese!?, Bread?, no no I can do that, if I start feeding these beast real human food they'll really eat me out of house and home.



Agreed, it's so much cheaper to feed them veggies rather than premium foods. Not sure about over there, but bread is 17p(8ish cent) a loaf over here down at Wal-mart's uk plaything.

Assuming you've not eaten them yet, what size tank are you keeping them in?
 
Yanbbrox;1326874; said:
Tequila;1325751; said:
Cheese!?, Bread?, no no I can do that, if I start feeding these beast real human food they'll really eat me out of house and home.



Agreed, it's so much cheaper to feed them veggies rather than premium foods. Not sure about over there, but bread is 17p(8ish cent) a loaf over here down at Wal-mart's uk plaything.

Assuming you've not eaten them yet, what size tank are you keeping them in?


Yeah the eating them part is still just a thought, I still love them very much. I house mine in a small 180G tank along with a few other tank mates for company. There not great fans of Spinach but they eat it. Mine prefer the premium stuff, like fresh live earthworms, when non are available they'll take Superworms live of course, though they now LOVE regular mealworms freezed dried. There all time favorites are live Blackworms, they'll each put away bout an ounce each, even after eating there veggies. They also love Turtle food, TetraMins Turtle Stix they love'em and so do everyother fish in the tank. This weekend I'll try posting some pix and maybe a movie of them.;)

For I love having a planted tank with real plants, which isn't possible with these beasts. Plus when I goto the store I keep seeing all these fish that I could put in my tank if it wasn't for these RTGG. Plus with smaller fish I could purchase only one or at best two foods per year and feeed them. Plus I would have many for fish to look at and enjoy. Plus the kids in my building enjoy cming to see how much they have grown in just a week. I'm doomed.
 
Here is a short vid of my Monsters. Sorry about the quality, it was shot with my cellphone camera. :popcorn:


 
Tequila;1328183; said:
Yanbbrox;1326874; said:
Yeah the eating them part is still just a thought, I still love them very much. I house mine in a small 180G tank along with a few other tank mates for company. There not great fans of Spinach but they eat it. Mine prefer the premium stuff, like fresh live earthworms, when non are available they'll take Superworms live of course, though they now LOVE regular mealworms freezed dried. There all time favorites are live Blackworms, they'll each put away bout an ounce each, even after eating there veggies. They also love Turtle food, TetraMins Turtle Stix they love'em and so do everyother fish in the tank. This weekend I'll try posting some pix and maybe a movie of them.;)

For I love having a planted tank with real plants, which isn't possible with these beasts. Plus when I goto the store I keep seeing all these fish that I could put in my tank if it wasn't for these RTGG. Plus with smaller fish I could purchase only one or at best two foods per year and feeed them. Plus I would have many for fish to look at and enjoy. Plus the kids in my building enjoy cming to see how much they have grown in just a week. I'm doomed.

Difficult conversion:
Kids come over to look at them
Kids:'So Tequilla how much have they grown?'
Tequilla 'Actually I ate them'
Cue crying etc.:(

You'll have to keep them now, looking forward to the pics...

I know what you mean about planted tanks, I found a shot the other day of how the same tank looked some 18 months ago before we slowly started to lose fish in it....
 
Nice fish you've got there..

You're going to need a huge huge tank when they get to full size;)

Noticed you've got a large bala shark in there, good job you've got red tails our elephant ear finished off our last two in 48 hours :(
 
Are they getting on?
 
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