Hi folks,
First time I've used forums before to help as there seems very little info on the net regarding large fish and this seems to be the only site with some good info. After keeping tropical fish for many years me and the wife decided after a the recent loss of a several larger fish in one of our tanks that we would get a giant gourami(elephant ear), did all the research needed, the only concern was we would need a larger tank later down the line. We bought the fish to go along side our 2 large silver sharks and 5 remaining silver dollars having kept gouramis(standard) in the past with them with no problem. The first few days were fine and everyone was getting along fine as long as fed it as much as it would eat, now it has settled in it has pecked the 2 sharks to death and today it finished off one of the silver dollars, it has now taken to attacking the largest dollar we have which is twice it's size, we have even left large lettuce leaves in the centre of the tank so if we're out it always has something to eat but it protects this as if it's life depend on it.
It was in perfect condition we we bought it, the first night it was here it something had a pop at it which resulted in a little dorsal fin damage which we are treating, and its going well, since then any other fish is fair game. It had previously lived in a specialist fish retailers for 14 months before we got it, on it's own.. but I've seen and read lots of people keep these in community tanks whilst growing them on.
Can anyone give us any feed back to what we are doing wrong before it finishes off the rest of our tank??
Hopefully we'll will be able to help others out having a similar experiences as it grows...
Apologies if this is in the wrong section, bit new to all this,
Rio 400 tank, int filter and ext filter
PH 6.8-7.1
30% water change every 3 days
1 giaint gourami, 3 silver dollars, 1 kissing gourami, 2 plecs, one large one small
Rio 300 tank, int filter and ext filter
PH ro only
20% water change daily
2 red turks, 2 blue turks, 1 pigeon blood blue, 1 pigeon red discus, 1 plec
First time I've used forums before to help as there seems very little info on the net regarding large fish and this seems to be the only site with some good info. After keeping tropical fish for many years me and the wife decided after a the recent loss of a several larger fish in one of our tanks that we would get a giant gourami(elephant ear), did all the research needed, the only concern was we would need a larger tank later down the line. We bought the fish to go along side our 2 large silver sharks and 5 remaining silver dollars having kept gouramis(standard) in the past with them with no problem. The first few days were fine and everyone was getting along fine as long as fed it as much as it would eat, now it has settled in it has pecked the 2 sharks to death and today it finished off one of the silver dollars, it has now taken to attacking the largest dollar we have which is twice it's size, we have even left large lettuce leaves in the centre of the tank so if we're out it always has something to eat but it protects this as if it's life depend on it.
It was in perfect condition we we bought it, the first night it was here it something had a pop at it which resulted in a little dorsal fin damage which we are treating, and its going well, since then any other fish is fair game. It had previously lived in a specialist fish retailers for 14 months before we got it, on it's own.. but I've seen and read lots of people keep these in community tanks whilst growing them on.
Can anyone give us any feed back to what we are doing wrong before it finishes off the rest of our tank??
Hopefully we'll will be able to help others out having a similar experiences as it grows...
Apologies if this is in the wrong section, bit new to all this,
Rio 400 tank, int filter and ext filter
PH 6.8-7.1
30% water change every 3 days
1 giaint gourami, 3 silver dollars, 1 kissing gourami, 2 plecs, one large one small
Rio 300 tank, int filter and ext filter
PH ro only
20% water change daily
2 red turks, 2 blue turks, 1 pigeon blood blue, 1 pigeon red discus, 1 plec
