are all anabantids atmospheric air breathers?

[Experiment397]

ok so i know that bettas and gouramis breath atmospheric air, but do all anabantids? i mean to be an anabantid they have to have a labyrinth organ, so does this meant they all breath surface air? in particular one like kissing gouramis and ctenopoma? thnx

 

[Experiment397]

no one knows? i found out that snakehead are airbreathers,bettas, gouramis, but cant find anything on the others

 

[Citrinellus]

Sounds like a question for Oddball.

 

[jag123]

Anabantids - they have the ability to breathe atmospheric oxygen - that is precisely what their name means. If they are classified in that family.

 

[Darth Scohin]

Yes all Anabantoids are air breathers

 

[Kaliedoscope]

yep. Not sure about kissing gouramis but all ctenopoma for sure

 

[Experiment397]

ok thnx. so they would all be fine with no airpump? if so then i am officially getting rid of the airpump for the betta

 

[Darth Scohin]

If you have enough surface aggitation from a filter you really don't need an airpump

 

[Experiment397]

^really, then i didnt need to get it in the first place

 

[Plec123]

^really, then i didnt need to get it in the first place

right-o. and keep in mind that many gourami species live in stagnant, poor excuses for ponds in the wild.