Giant Gourami aggression

[TheMightyOscar]

I wouldn't have thought 2 males would get along, hopefully it stays that way for you.
KNH

i'm not positive the pink is male..just guessing due to the small nuchal hump coming in

 

[Tequila]

MightyO- Do you know if your GGs are male or female? Perhaps 2 females to get along so well???

Let me say this about having 2 male anything, they will fight! I have as stated before 2.1 ( that is 2 males, 1 female Anglefish the 2 males fight everyday all day long over the female, they live to fight, eat, fight some more. Thats there life ever since I lost the other female to an attack by a 14 inch Aussie Arowana.

I have 2 pr of RTGG the males to do not fight, the largest male and his mate Battle from time to time. When I say Battle I mean they with open mouths push one another back and forth across the tank. The male only get scratches, bent up scales from fleeing from the female, hiding behind cover, etc,. The largest females is the trouble maker in my tank, she chases all other RTGG's when she gets in her moods. The only time water flies is when the biggest male gets tired of the games, and lays down the law.

I have been offered Pink GG but have yet to except them, because I really wanna sell off my RTGG that I have now, not start adding more eating machines too my tank.

 

[Yanbbrox]

Let me say this about having 2 male anything, they will fight! I have as stated before 2.1 ( that is 2 males, 1 female Anglefish the 2 males fight everyday all day long over the female, they live to fight, eat, fight some more. Thats there life ever since I lost the other female to an attack by a 14 inch Aussie Arowana.

I have 2 pr of RTGG the males to do not fight, the largest male and his mate Battle from time to time. When I say Battle I mean they with open mouths push one another back and forth across the tank. The male only get scratches, bent up scales from fleeing from the female, hiding behind cover, etc,. The largest females is the trouble maker in my tank, she chases all other RTGG's when she gets in her moods. The only time water flies is when the biggest male gets tired of the games, and lays down the law.

I have been offered Pink GG but have yet to except them, because I really wanna sell off my RTGG that I have now, not start adding more eating machines too my tank.

You must be getting a reputation as the gg guy around there. 'Fish too big for tank? ring Tequila'

 

[Tequila]

You must be getting a reputation as the gg guy around there. 'Fish too big for tank? ring Tequila'

Nah its just that I have been in and out of the "Pet Trade" since I quit the retail end of it allback in 1980. I don't know how things are in your neck of the world, but here in the USA, retail shops wanna turn over there stock as fast as they can to make as much as they can. And when items especially live stock sits around taking up space, eating up dry goods, and could drop dead do to any number of reasons, shops especially retail shops wanna get rid of it ASAP. Some just keep a tank or too with monsters in it too attrack attention, but most would rather just move them out ASAP!, even if they gotta cut the price, or in some rare cases give them away.

There are a few shops close by that like keeping monster fish, I know of two such shops that at present have 25-30 inch EEGG in stock at present. But they are more like pets than sale items, or there just out right killers and they cant move them because of that so they keep them.

 

[KNH]

Thanks for the pics MightyO

 

[bill88]

my uncle in china has 1, lives in a 120gallon with like 20 parrots, a red devil and a gar. he said its not aggressive towards fish but humans.

 

[Dovii dude]

Havent had one in a year,but when i did i had to get rid of it because it was attacking everything in my tank!!!!

 

[Tequila]

Havent had one in a year,but when i did i had to get rid of it because it was attacking everything in my tank!!!!

Hmmmm.... Sounds cool I can't wait until my 4 start killing everything in there tank, so then I'll have a really good reason to fry them all or at least try to seriously sell them off. And move on too guppies and fancy tetras.

I think that RTGG and GG/EEGG problem is that there all individuals and some are mean and nasty and others aren't, and as there keepers one either has too be prepare to handle the handle what there dealt or more on too something less stressful. I see people throughout the many forms talking about there Jag's or there Tiger Shovelnose Cats, or better yet that they would love to have snakeheads, people if you can't deal with the troubles that come with RTGG, EEGG or GG then please stay the heck away from Snakeheads, Redtail Cats, Jag's, Arowana's, Arapiama's, Bowfins, or anyother fish that either has teeth or grows larger than a TV remote.

Yes I am guilty of trying to sell my RTGG, or debating on whether to stirfry them. But yet I still have them, because everywhere I go, recently from NY to FL retail shops and wholesale places, I have yet to see a pr of RTGG that have the same amount of contrast between strong rich red against dark bluish-grey/grey background as one pair of the two pair that I have. I have had many different fish specimens, with the largest tank being the one I presently have 180G. If the truth be known I would prefer too have a 1600G custom tank with Marine Inverts and a handful of Clownfish, that is my dream tank, not turning my swimming pool into a Arapiama tank or some other behemoth fish too be me that is truely BORING.

 

[rallysman]

Hmmmm.... Sounds cool I can't wait until my 4 start killing everything in there tank, so then I'll have a really good reason to fry them all or at least try to seriously sell them off. And move on too guppies and fancy tetras.

I think that RTGG and GG/EEGG problem is that there all individuals and some are mean and nasty and others aren't, and as there keepers one either has too be prepare to handle the handle what there dealt or more on too something less stressful. I see people throughout the many forms talking about there Jag's or there Tiger Shovelnose Cats, or better yet that they would love to have snakeheads, people if you can't deal with the troubles that come with RTGG, EEGG or GG then please stay the heck away from Snakeheads, Redtail Cats, Jag's, Arowana's, Arapiama's, Bowfins, or anyother fish that either has teeth or grows larger than a TV remote.

Yes I am guilty of trying to sell my RTGG, or debating on whether to stirfry them. But yet I still have them, because everywhere I go, recently from NY to FL retail shops and wholesale places, I have yet to see a pr of RTGG that have the same amount of contrast between strong rich red against dark bluish-grey/grey background as one pair of the two pair that I have. I have had many different fish specimens, with the largest tank being the one I presently have 180G. If the truth be known I would prefer too have a 1600G custom tank with Marine Inverts and a handful of Clownfish, that is my dream tank, not turning my swimming pool into a Arapiama tank or some other behemoth fish too be me that is truely BORING.

 

[Yanbbrox]

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