Corys with Giant gourami?

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jawskk

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Is this a daft idea?

I plant to break down my 2 ft aquarium, and get a 5ft aquarium for a giant gourami. But it requires me selling my 2 guppy's and neons and corys, but i love my corys so much, i was wondering whether i could keep them with the GG?
Any ideas?

Thanks alot
Mike
 
Would you house small fish with a giant fish? That's my question to you.
 
Not sure about GG's with corys but a 5 foot aquarium isn't enough for a Giant Gourami.
 
i wouldn't normally, but i was told that giant gouramis are vegetarians, and you could place them with neon tetras and they will not eat them deliberatly, i was told that by my pet store people, and yahoo answers, but wanted to double check here,
and i know it isnt, its only temporary
 
jawskk said:
i wouldn't normally, but i was told that giant gouramis are vegetarians, and you could place them with neon tetras and they will not eat them deliberatly, i was told that by my pet store people, and yahoo answers, but wanted to double check here,
and i know it isnt, its only temporary
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No fish is solely vegetarian. Not even fish like GG's that are mostly herbivore will turn down a small fish swimming in front of their noses.
 
i have corys with my 8" payara. the corys are too fast for the payara to catch lol also, it helps that you provide cover.. im pretty sure it'd be much easier for the payara if the corys didnt have cover.

also, it helps that corys are spiny as hell. perhaps the payara chases the cory out of instinct, but i wouldnt think it'd go nicely down the throat.
 
Pacu was supposed to be vegetarians, turns out that they will eat everything. GG has very similar diet to pacus, and they aint fussy eaters.
 
spines only deter fish so much, at some point, the gg will be big enough to not care about those spines. Also, once that size, it wont have that much trouble catching corys. corys dont always react to danger very fast, and GG's arnt that slow.

When I kept stickleback, no one ate them because of their spines. After all the smooth, tasty fish were eaten the stickleback only lasted 24 hours. Id guess it would work for a while, but the corys will eventually dissapear
 
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