Assesment of a roughly 10 year old tank…
Hi Steve, Kind of looks like more people are successfully keeping Dwarf Gouramis as you’re saying — else why would there be as many reports on them as there are. I don’t know how far back this bad boy behavior can be attributed to them, which you can apparently attest to, but when I first started breeding this species back in ‘53, they were one of the most peaceful Gouramis one could have in their tank. This all seems to have turned around once they started to be bred in the Far East. Maybe its directly due to the Asian fish farmers not exporting the females with them (LOL). Or, the rumors that they may supposedly use hormones on them to have them develop as mostly males.
Ditto, with the Black (”Black Skirt”) Tetras. When I bred those back in the ’50’s, and at the same time kept them with other Tetras, their disposition was no different from any other peaceful Tetra. Now they are reported to be absolute terrors!
A bit off-topic, but hopefully still allowable; look for me up at the NEC convention, I’ll try to find you. I was initially planning on getting there Friday afternoon, but now it looks like I might not be able to make it until early Saturday morning. I want to catch Eric Bodrock’s Catfish talk at 9AM, but I first need to set up my show fish; I’m one of the twenty attendees who were invited to participate in the 1st NEC William T. Innes competition, so will be bringing my entry. While he’s not on this Forum, we should look up Steve (Guyger) - AHHS - since he indicated he was going again. See ya! Ray
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