Red Tail Gourami

**Ong88** · 28-03-2010, 12:28 AM

watching my comm tank fishes & noticed that my RTG is now a giant.

any bros with RTGs? lets share these hardy, undemanding beauties.

I have 2 at home & 3 in the office. These are my home pieces :

1st piece :

2nd piece, just transferred last week from another tank where it had a lot of dropped scales after adult red aro attacked him :

tigerlover2006 · 28-03-2010, 12:34 AM

Beautiful giant!!!! But can be quite fierce also.

28-03-2010, 01:48 AM

swee...how long u take to reach the size...are they 1ft or more

**Ong88** · 28-03-2010, 02:01 AM

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Originally Posted by fishcraz

swee...how long u take to reach the size...are they 1ft or more

Est 11", one year after buying at 4". Market prawn diet morning/nite & wc twice/week.
Same batch in office is around 6" only cos pellet fed once/day & one wc weekly plus 3 footer tank.

28-03-2010, 02:22 AM

Red tail Gourami one of my favorite fish. used to have 1pair fron 5ins grew to 18ins not aggressive to other species but always fight with own kind. out grew my tank so i gave it to Neo of purple red aquarium. BTW, Besides MP and SW, they love kang kong leaves. and they will survive and grow nicely just on a vegetarian diet.

Kind of miss this species........

28-03-2010, 02:38 AM

how to let tis fish become more red ???

28-03-2010, 02:59 AM

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Originally Posted by fishkiller

how to let tis fish become more red ???

Sunlight is best.......

jPoPbOl · 28-03-2010, 05:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ong88

Est 11", one year after buying at 4". Market prawn diet morning/nite & wc twice/week.
Same batch in office is around 6" only cos pellet fed once/day & one wc weekly plus 3 footer tank.

damn swee the tail very rate... but your seems to be on the slow grow rate.. i used to keep from 4inches to 15inches in 1year or less then that.. but when get bigger.. it started to wack my another fish so i gave up...

yeah one of my fav fishes oso..

bro wah same batch but 6inches?? stunted??

itchy · 28-03-2010, 09:51 AM

Used to keep one until more than 1.5ft which the head budge out like got a hump, very nice fish, but cannot tolearate its own species.

Occellatus · 28-03-2010, 02:49 PM

I intend to get a 13 incher to comm with my big IT, PB and Rays....not too sure if the fella will be aggressive or not....should I give it a shot?

28-03-2010, 12:28 AM	#1
Ong88 Prof SK Ong Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 10,641	Red Tail Gourami watching my comm tank fishes & noticed that my RTG is now a giant. any bros with RTGs? lets share these hardy, undemanding beauties. I have 2 at home & 3 in the office. These are my home pieces : 1st piece : 2nd piece, just transferred last week from another tank where it had a lot of dropped scales after adult red aro attacked him : __________________ Just because it's a bad idea doesn't mean it won't be a good time. Use imgur for your photos sharing https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...m.imgur.mobile

28-03-2010, 02:22 AM	#5
average_cc Guest Posts: n/a	Red tail Gourami one of my favorite fish. used to have 1pair fron 5ins grew to 18ins not aggressive to other species but always fight with own kind. out grew my tank so i gave it to Neo of purple red aquarium. BTW, Besides MP and SW, they love kang kong leaves. and they will survive and grow nicely just on a vegetarian diet. Kind of miss this species........ Last edited by average_cc; 28-03-2010 at 02:23 AM.

28-03-2010, 12:34 AM	#2
tigerlover2006 Dragon Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 817	Beautiful giant!!!! But can be quite fierce also.

28-03-2010, 01:48 AM	#3
fishcraz Guest Posts: n/a	swee...how long u take to reach the size...are they 1ft or more

28-03-2010, 02:38 AM	#6
fishkiller Guest Posts: n/a	how to let tis fish become more red ???

28-03-2010, 09:51 AM	#9
itchy Endangered Dragon Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 11,159	Used to keep one until more than 1.5ft which the head budge out like got a hump, very nice fish, but cannot tolearate its own species.

28-03-2010, 02:49 PM	#10
Occellatus Endangered Dragon Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 10,797	I intend to get a 13 incher to comm with my big IT, PB and Rays....not too sure if the fella will be aggressive or not....should I give it a shot?

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